May 5, 2014
“Indeed, we might summarize all these points by saying that schoolchildren have been deprived of the opportunity of actually doing mathematics in... Read More
April 29, 2014
“The relation of school children to mathematics remains deeply puzzling after more than a decade of wide-scale experiment in the classroom and... Read More
February 13, 2012
“Thus in its embodiment as the physical computer, computation opens a vast universe of things to do. But the real magic comes... Read More
November 28, 2011
“I end by mentioning two less specific “firsts” with which “Teaching Children Thinking” should be credited. At that time the concept of... Read More
November 21, 2011
“Some of my colleagues are disappointed that School manages to so dilute the ideas or so circumscribe their impact that they can... Read More
November 14, 2011
“Although printed in 1970, “Teaching Children Thinking” was conceived in 1968 and bears the signs of the heady atmosphere of that time.... Read More
October 25, 2011
“Let’s go back to Dewey for a moment. Intellectual growth, he often told us, must be rooted in the child’s experience. But... Read More
April 25, 2011
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Today’s feature is a very special addition to The Daily Papert. It is not by Seymour Papert, but is about some of... Read More
March 10, 2011
“Many children who have trouble understanding mathematics also have a hopelessly deficient model of what mathematical understanding is like. Particularly bad are... Read More