Good Math, Bad Math had an entry recently, titled, “Teaching Multiplication: Is it repeated addition?”.
There ensued a lively discussion on math fundamentals and pedagogy, where the usual points were brought up.
But what really caught my attention was an anonymous, autobiographical account of a PhD’s struggle with mathematics.
Reproduced here:
Archive for July, 2008
sad story
Posted in education, mathematics, pensees on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wear Suncreen
Posted in hahas, life, music, pensees, poetry on July 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My father heard this on Class95 this morning, came back, and found it on Youtube. I’m putting it here so I won’t forget.
Based on a Chicago Tribune column by Mary Schmich:
15min Poem
Posted in life, pensees, poetry on July 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Feelings…Oh! The wretched things,
They mess one’s fragile heart.
They flit and fly, they pull and tug,
They threaten to tear apart.
“Oh rein them in! Oh tame them now!”
One’s sensib’lities shout,
“One thing you must remember:
You must never let them out!”
In vain! In vain! They will not die!
They will not disappear!
In recesses of the heart they grow,
Love, Joy, Pain [...]
education
Posted in education on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What are the gifts of biblical faith to the secular university?
Education can receive from the Bible a faith concerning man far more realistic than the naive faith by which education has tried to live.
Not man as “pure reason”: his reason is not pure.
Not man as incipient angel: he can turn any structure… to good or [...]
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