[math-fun] Article in "Science" re learning math via concrete examples vs. via abstractions
Did anyone else see this article: < http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/science/25math.html > ? I'm curious what people's reaction to it was. The original article is not hard to find by googling, though in the interest of probity I shan't post a link. --Dan _____________________________________________________________________ "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je ne sais quoi." --Peter Schickele
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Did anyone else see this article: < http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/science/25math.html > ?
I'm curious what people's reaction to it was.
The original article is not hard to find by googling, though in the interest of probity I shan't post a link.
Your googling skills are better than mine: I couldn't find the original article, and am interested in reading it. In what way would it compromise your probity to post a link? Is it a link to an illegal copyright-violating copy, or something?
--Dan
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Andy Latto <andy.latto@pobox.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Did anyone else see this article: < http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/science/25math.html > ?
I'm curious what people's reaction to it was.
The original article is not hard to find by googling, though in the interest of probity I shan't post a link.
Your googling skills are better than mine: I couldn't find the original article, and am interested in reading it. In what way would it compromise your probity to post a link? Is it a link to an illegal copyright-violating copy, or something?
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+Advantage+of+Abstract+Examples+in+Lear... I presume the 5th hit is the probably-copyright-violating full text link that Dan declined to post. --Michael
--Dan
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Googling the authors, Kaminski, Sloutsky, & Heckler, turns up a body of related work, viz. http://cogdev.cog.ohio-state.edu/html/publications.html and on Heckler's web page. I'm glad to see someone is doing real experiments about learning, but I admit to being burned out, to the point of detachment and disbelief, about "new learning strategies". Determining that some particular method is good, and measuring effectiveness, seems almost as hard as figuring out what our cat is thinking about. Rich ---------------- Quoting Michael Kleber <michael.kleber@gmail.com>:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Andy Latto <andy.latto@pobox.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Did anyone else see this article: < http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/science/25math.html > ?
I'm curious what people's reaction to it was.
The original article is not hard to find by googling, though in the interest of probity I shan't post a link.
Your googling skills are better than mine: I couldn't find the original article, and am interested in reading it. In what way would it compromise your probity to post a link? Is it a link to an illegal copyright-violating copy, or something?
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+Advantage+of+Abstract+Examples+in+Lear...
I presume the 5th hit is the probably-copyright-violating full text link that Dan declined to post.
--Michael
--Dan
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quoi." --Peter Schickele
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