High school mathematics, then, is much like being given a set of Lego airplanes which have been carefully glued together. You may learn how they work, but you do not have the tools to disassemble them and you haven’t the faintest idea how to build a new one. Should you ever meet these airplanes again, your knowledge will be useful; otherwise, what’s the point? It’s just like an 8th-grader complaining that he’ll never use the quadratic equation again in his life.
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Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers - YouTube - 0 views
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Making Math more interesting. You may have seen this video before (2010) but still very good. Very interesting perspective by Conrad Wolfram. He thinks the way we are teaching Math is the problem. http://www.ted.com From rockets to stock markets, math powers many of humanity's most thrilling creations. So why do kids lose interest? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.
How a flipped classroom flipped a student's perspective - 0 views
The idea of graduating high school is supposed to be exciting: the beginning of a brand new life filled with experience and opportunity. But, when I thought about graduating from high school, I was...
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics Education - 2 views
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just an interesting article
Some Great math blogs - 5 views
A few math blogs I have been pulling ideas from. In addition some of these are great philosophical reads into teaching, grading, and discipline. http://misscalculate.blogspot.com/ http://matha...
Cool math - Survivor Algebra - A teaching method for high student success - 0 views
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This is an interesting idea about how to do group work in math.
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