This is specifically from the perspective of math education, but may apply to other areas just as well. Why do we give assessments? Surely the answer is to find out what students know and what students can do. Not in general; we want to know specifically whether students know certain things. We have learning targets…
Tag: teaching math
I like nonsense the best
I have often said that my favorite way to sort objects is alphabetically by color name. For example, if your objects are colored red, yellow, green, blue, and purple, then you would put the blue one first, followed by green, then purple, red, and finally yellow. But why? Partly for humor. I think it’s funny…
A plea to teach sig figs in math class
Measurement is an essential part of math. Quantities encountered in the real world are usually one of two things: a count or a measurement. Counting is what we learn first about math, before doing anything else with numbers. Counting is a way of measuring a quantity of discrete objects, but it is different from other…
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