Posts tagged with education

Jan
05

Truly an awesome technology. I think it would be a hassle to set up and manage a classroom submission system. For me, as a math teacher in a country that seems to be falling behind other countries in student math achievement, I don’t see how to use it to help remedy our ills.
If we had [...]

Sep
09
Filed Under (Thing) by Mister McIntosh on 09-09-2008 and tagged , ,

“Math is best learned through the arm,” a colleague once told me. I still think he’s right.
Calculators are a huge enabling technology for scientists, engineers, accountants, doctors, lawyers, construction workers — just about anybody. Anybody, that is, except middle school math students. Oh it’s an enabler for them too — it enables them to avoid [...]