Imperfect and Unfinished
I have a problem, and I need your help. I love teaching young students about data and statistics. And I enjoy finding ways to make data and statistics matter more to young students. I’m troubled by how we teach students to think about data and statistics, and I have some ideas on how we can … Continue Reading
A Question and a Confession Question: If someone asks you what “elicit” means, could you nail the definition? Try it. How’d you do? Confession: I was an English Literature major in college. I tutored college-level math and fell in love with teaching because of math. But back then, words and expression and theater were my jam. … Continue Reading
Note: This post is a third in a series about my learning and thinking about argument and how it relates to our work in the math classroom. Click here to read the first post. Click here to read the second. What is Abductive Reasoning? I’m going to share my new favorite term: abductive reasoning. Maybe … Continue Reading
(Update: This post is the second in a series about my learning and thinking about argument and how it relates to our work in the math classroom. Click here to read the first post. Click here to read the third.) Welcome back math geeks! Last week, I was preparing for a workshop facilitating the learning … Continue Reading
I went searching for more knowledge about argument. I fell into a rabbit hole. Help me make sense of this. Do you agree? Disagree? What are your thoughts?
