Articles Tagged with learning

Science is big

Collecting the tools

What you need to learn before starting your research gets larger all the time.

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Don’t know much geometry (II)

Stuff I learned in school

More reasons for apparently useless subjects.

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Making a drawing (I)

The importance of the rough sketch

Sometimes, the rougher the better.

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What is your name?

Power and placeholders

We point out a difference between mathematics and magic.

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The narrative imperative

Telling the story

We notice that novel-writing and movie-making are different from Physics and History.

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Students return (II)

Unintended consequences

We find, again, that the message we thought we sent is not always what was received.

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Is this always true?

Absolute truths

Some questions are very difficult to answer, even if you know the answer.

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It doesn’t look right

Finding mistakes

Our tutor ponders techniques he employs unconsciously.

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Providing proof

If-then-therefore

Doing proofs in Geometry class is hard.  Teaching how to do them is harder.

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Why teach errors?

Outdated, still in use

We look for reasons to teach things that aren’t true.

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