fractions

May 8, 2012 (Rare Discoveries Week)

1990s, Computers, Constructionism, Epistemology, Learning, Mathematics, Project-based learning, School Reform, Teaching / By

“So there are other ways, through this computer system that have opened up, that enable somebody to get knowledge when you need it. Now this leads to, not only to a radically different idea of what kind of knowledge it is, because there’s nothing numerical and nothing about fractions in the description of the parabola …

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October 4, 2011

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“I’m going to pick on one little corner of school, namely mathematics. I am a mathematician, so it is easy for me to talk about math, but what I have said applies to everything. Now in mathematics the dominating feature is the content. I recently did a little research on what discussion there is in …

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