Better than Blackboard: teaching mathematics to human students by a human professor
“Better than Blackboard” is a series of articles being published between 2023 and 2026 in Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, the quarterly magazine of the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society. In these articles, I talk about mathematics education in the same way we talk about mathematics: stating definitions, challenging assumptions, and being critical of our intuition. I…
Read MoreLet them do the work! – Guided Reinvention in Math Education
A problem that we often encounter in our teaching, is that through abstraction the intuition behind mathematical results get lost. Of course, for mathematician abstraction helps to push intuitive ideas to their limit, but for a student abstractions can become a notational burden. Rigorous mathematics runs the risk of turning cute ideas into conceptual monsters…
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