Newsworthy Math

A Discussion about Mathematics in Society

April, 2009

"Show Your Working"

One of the many things that makes math difficult to learn is the seemingly universal reluctance to be comfortable with incomplete thoughts. In math terms this translates to “write down you’re intermediate results”. Kids hate to do this. If you ask them to do a multi-step problem it is an enormous struggle to get them [...]

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