Visual learners
I'm getting a new appreciation for the challenges of being a visual learner and mastering algebra. Okay, I was starting to "get it" with my lady who is a hairdresser who kept doing things that looked nice.
Now that I'm tuned to it, I'm seeing that more and more of students' persistent, drive-the-teacher-NUTS problems stem from having a visual problem-solving approach. THus, KH^2 keeps being done with multiplication first because, visually, it SHOULD. "both sides of the equation" means both sides of the middle, not both sides of the equals sign.
Could come in handy trying to teach the stuff, ya think?
posted by SiouxGeonz at 12:40 PM
2 Comments:
Makes so much sense ! maybe this is why i never enjoyed math...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz8KPw-u1U0
this is a silly "fake-education" video.. it's kind of long...but kind of funny if you are into that sort of thing
7:39 AM
It is pretty funny -- and I have to say that I 'm 90% sure that it's what "real" math teaching sounds like.
12:33 PM
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