Friday, July 13, 2007
Teaching without Procedure?
I understand the importance of students constructing knowledge. I also understand that problems/tasks should be relevant to the lives of students. But how who I teach order of operations, without giving rules. I think this is a topic that will have to be taught through procedure. Another topic is slope, a student can understand the concept of slope, but without giving the student the formula m=y2-y1/x2-x1. How will students solve a problem?
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That is so true. There are some things that you just have to teach with procedures. I can't imagine teaching order of operations without the procedures either. How could it be done? There's really no rational explaination that the students could figure out on their own. That's juat something that has to be committed to memory.
It might be interesting to do some research on how people from other cultures learn these things..procedure too?
Here is what I think to be the key: What does the idea of coffee getting colder over time hav e to do with the formula?
Now that is the exciting journey?
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