This is news from participants in the open online course Problem Solving for the Young, the Very Young, and the Young at Heart. Subscribe to receive the mpsMOOC13 Observer by email | Read past issues | Visit the course page. Course tasks this week By July 3: Sign up! Log in to the question and answer hub Ask Moby […]
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mpsMOOC13 Observer June 24: Peer learning, video conference, mixed ages
This is news from participants in the open online course Problem Solving for the Young, the Very Young, and the Young at Heart. Subscribe to receive the mpsMOOC13 Observer by email. Visit the course page. Peer learning: here comes everybody! As of this newsletter forty-two adventurous families, homeschool groups, and math circles said they will work […]
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“Little people, big play, and big mathematical ideas” by Robert Hunting
Robert Hunting’s paper I read this week is a part of MERGA (Mathematics Education Research Group of Australia) symposium on the role of play in mathematics (full text PDF). Robert makes a subversive statement about two types of big ideas: To simplify, allow me to identify two poles or extreme positions representing this matter – […]
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Geometry in the sand
This is a guest post by Joseángel Murcia of TocaMates, translated from Spanish by Ever Salazar. Sand has always been a good place to do geometry. In fact, ancient Greeks used it instead of the “modern” blackboards to show their ideas and schemes. It is also said that Archimedes died while drawing in the sand from […]
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