Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Random Math Thoughts

Some things I have learned about Math this week:

- Architecture, nature, geometry, art and more consist of The Golden Ratio.

- teachers want to promote genuine math discourse within a community of math

- children and adults approach a math problem very differently, depending on what type of learner they are

- before children are taught strategies, they invent them

- when doing timed tests, have students write "I can do it!" at the top, then give them a goal to do better than last time instead of making them feel they have failed when not finishing all 100 problems in 5 minutes.

- that no matter what age you are, when math manipulatives are placed in front of you; you can't help but build things with them.

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