Articles Tagged with teaching

Stories in the air (I)

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The definitive version

There are some stories you just know.  How?

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Reading the dial (I)

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The graph and the digital clock

How do you tell time?

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Knowing too much (II)

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Mind the gap

Sometimes there’s a space between too little and too much.

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Knowing too much

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Experience and word problems

Who makes the best teacher?

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Knowing your limits

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The art of the possible

We consider being more realistic in education.

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Unnatural mathematics

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Horizontal and vertical

Learning math involves unlearning many obvious things.

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The problem problem

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A pursuit curve

Answering the problems you get in class is less difficult than posing them in the first place.

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Know thyself

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Learning and testing

Constructing a useful test can be very difficult.

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The courage of one’s calculations

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Knowledge and its uses

Knowing how to do something, and doing it, are not the same thing.

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Economic instability

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What they don’t tell you

We suggest another approach to teaching economics.

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