[IAEP] maths instruction

[Maria Droujkova]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Kathy Pusztavari
<kathy at kathyandcalvin.com> wrote:
>
> I will not teach in the public sector.  I will, however, volunteer or create
> a afterschool or summer school program.  I'd love to use sugar (SoaS) to
> test some of the activities and do some research.  We need more educational
> research even if it is very small.

Do you know any of the people involved in Math Clubs and Math Circles?
The Berkley folks just made a very nice web site:
http://www.mathcircles.org/

I think programs of that sort are great for research, because of
flexibility and low stakes. I did a class on Scratch in a local
homeschool coop this Winter. I am working on designing a
programming-based algebra program for this Fall, as well. I want to
collect more detailed data from it, because this time around, I have
some research questions.

>
> "'- You are all individuals! - Yes, we are all individuals!'"
>
> Funny.  It took a couple seconds until I got it :)

It's the episode where Brian's on the balcony trying to convince the
crowd to think for themselves, while they just repeat whatever he
says: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqq3e03EBQ

A clash of a teaching method and a learning method, I think. Or maybe
not. It's funny, anyway.

-- 
Cheers,
MariaD

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