Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Skemp on two approaches to teaching and learning mathematics
Here is our first article, an old but influential one:
Richard Skemp on instrumental and relational ways of understanding mathematics
Please read this article and write a response on your blog by 9 AM Monday September 9 (note correction!).
Your response should be brief (1-2 paragraphs), but full of interesting ideas. You should NOT summarize the article in this response, but you should talk about:
• Three things that made you "stop" as you read this piece, and why
• Where you stand on the issue Skemp raises, and why
Oct 7
Go to the pdf of Thinking Mathematically. Read chapter 3 (Responses to Being Stuck, pp. 45-57) and write your concise response to it, including two things that were "stops" for you.
Then go to Chapter 11 (Thinking Mathematically in Curriculum Topics, pp. 181-230). Choose one of these puzzles and post your choice in the comments on this post -- first come, first dibs (so that everyone chooses a different puzzle). Work on your puzzle in the form of a two-column solution -- one column for your mathematical work, and the other for your process, emotional reactions, dead ends, productive approaches, etc. The process is as important as the solution here
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