Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Adding it up: Research shows how early math lessons change children's brains
Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have demonstrated that a single year of math lessons is associated with unexpectedly big changes in the brain’s approach to problem solving and that these changes can be seen in the brain scans of second- and third-graders. ...[more]
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Is motivation the job of a teacher?
"To be blunt, a teacher is not responsible for motivating students; a great teacher models self-motivation." ... [more]
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Why Cosines?
Why Do We Learn About Cosine Functions? asks Forrest Hinton on The Quick and the Ed. I’ve waited more than 40 years for the answer — which he has not got. Hinton flashes back to his Algebra III classroom in ... [more]
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