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The Future of Math Education?

By Andy Ewing | September 16, 2008

The New York Times ran this article today about the relationship between humans’ intuitive approximate number system that is shared with many other animals and the concocted symbolic number system that we often regard as “math”.  Unsurprisingly, the two seem to be related.  From the article:
“What’s interesting and surprising in our results is that the [...]

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Teaching and Learning

By Andy Ewing | October 21, 2006

Yesterday, I had a wonderful opportunity to give a presentation in front of a couple hundred Principles of Microeconomics students. The slides are here. I thought it went pretty well, and several students were interested enough in the material to come talk to me afterwards and/or give me a thanks (which, by the [...]

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