Futurum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Library and research skills cover areas such as knowing how to reference and cite authors properly, being able to discern between reliable and unreliable sources of information, accessing scientific literature and giving accurate evidence-based arguments when writing scientific essays and reports. What do students learn from studying this?

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 30, 2022

Last semester, when I learned I would be teaching Modern Algebra a third-year level course on number theory, rings, and fields in January, I knew I wanted to make some changes to how I'd taught it in the past. I wrote about that in my previous post. One of the changes I decided to make was to make a full-throated leap into ungrading.

Mathematics 52

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. These are the students who end up hitting a wall when math courses move from easier algebra to more advanced concepts in, say, calculus, he argues. “At

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

In the face of mounting evidence, education experts accepted a prescriptive fact: student success is not measured by milestones like ‘took a foreign language in fifth grade’ or ‘passed Algebra in high school’ but by how s/he thinks. Persisting. Stick with a problem, even when it’s difficult and seems hopeless.

Critical Thinking 267

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MAY 19, 2023

This is especially important if you’re writing an article involving multiple sources, or asking one source to critique the arguments of another: It’s quite likely that they aren’t talking about the same thing. Why would an instructor use ungrading? I will speak for myself here.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

He drives down to Woods Hole with a certain Henry Stommel —an oceanography professor at Harvard—who tells him about a “vortex ocean model”, and asks Ed if he can program it on a PDP-1 so that it displays ocean currents on a screen. Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra. It was all algebra.

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