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What is cognitive conflict approach to teaching? by Mathematics for Teaching on Jan 19, 2012Mathematics for Teaching - This site is NOT about making mathematics easy because it isn't. It is about making it make sense because it does.According to Piaget, knowledge is constructed when a learner encounters input from the environment and i...
Top ten errors in algebra by Mathematics for Teaching on Apr 3, 2011Mathematics is indeed a universal language. Even errors are universal. Do you hear yourself saying the following in the class? #10. Squaring the negative. A minus a squared unless it’s been snared: #09. Logarithms: The log of the sum ain’...
Fractions are not numbers by Mathematics for Teaching on Jul 15, 2010Yes, fraction isn’t a kind of number. It is misleading to put fraction alongside the sets of numbers – counting, whole, integers, rational, irrational and real. The diagram below which are in many Mathematics I (Year 7) textbooks is inv...
