https://mathforlove.com/2010/08/970617910/ Transforming how math is taught and learned. Mon, 13 Dec 2021 19:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://mathforlove.com/2010/08/970617910/#comment-38117 Mon, 13 Dec 2021 19:17:37 +0000 https://mathforlove.wpengine.com/?p=1022#comment-38117 This is excellent, in that it makes me want to give my kids the opportunity to have questions. But, having been educated in a very answers driven classroom where pattern use was actively discouraged –if the teacher suspected we’d used patterns to get to the answers, rather than working the problems, we were marked wrong– this is also intensely frustrating: I am persuaded there needs to be questions as well as answers… but I have no idea how to go about it. How did our ancestors figure out pi? I don’t know, magic? Because that sort of thing looks like magic to me, even knowing that it’s possible, it’s already solved, it’s in there somewhere. I need someone to hold my hand a bit, or it will stay as mysterious as any magic Harry Potter or Merlin ever worked.

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