Month: December 2012
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The Struggle for Productive Struggle
This NPR radio spot confirms much of what we already know about struggle. There’s so much good stuff in this report, I’d encourage you to go listen to it or read it. Here are a couple nuggets I found particularly illuminating (emphasis mine). ================= For example, Stigler says, in the Japanese classrooms that he’s studied,…
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This holiday season, won’t you give the gift of Math Ed? (Specifically, give it to me?)
Like many of you, I suspect, I learn more and am edified more by the social media math education community than that of academia and your typical district instructional coaching. Also like many of you, I suspect, I’m WAY behind on my math ed blog reading. Much of that is because it just slips through…
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