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Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand?
What are some possible problems?
What are some possible solutions?
Do you understand?
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand?
What are some possible problems?
What are some possible solutions?
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand?
What are some possible problems?
What are some possible solutions?
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand?
What are some possible problems?
What are some possible solutions?
Outline
1 Do you understand?
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics vs. real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies vs. students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill vs. understanding
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics vs. real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies vs. students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill vs. understanding
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics vs. real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies vs. students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill vs. understanding
Saying
1 1 2
+ =
2 3 5
is like saying
1 apple + 1 orange = 2 bananas
But
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics vs. real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies vs. students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill vs. understanding
“For the first part of the test, you got 7 out of 15 items correctly.
For the second part of the test, you got 6 out of 10 items correctly.
7 6
Thus, your score for the entire test is 15 + 10 = 13
25 .”
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics vs. real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies vs. students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill vs. understanding
“All too often, the questions which pupils solve in class are based
on the repetition and practice of an algorithm which has just been
demonstrated. No choice is involved, no mathematical thinking is
required and a pupil using an alternative method would be in the
wrong. No wonder then that school-taught algorithms are rarely
used in real life!” [TJ00, p. 113]
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics vs. real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies vs. students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill vs. understanding
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics vs. real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies vs. students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill vs. understanding
80 m
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics should be real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies and students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill and understanding
Give these students 6.25 pesos and then take away 4 pesos from
them. Ask them how much would remain. Would they give the
above answers?
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics should be real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies and students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill and understanding
If you were actually going to divide 812 pesos among these four
students, how would they react if you gave them 23 pesos each?
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics should be real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies and students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill and understanding
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics should be real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies and students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill and understanding
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics should be real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies and students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill and understanding
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics should be real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies and students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill and understanding
“Unusual”
932 Rename Subtrahend
−356
932 932 +4 = 936 +40 = 976
600
−356 −356 −4 = −360 −40 = −400
− 20
− 4 576
576
Left-to-Right Add-Up
932 632 582 356 360 400 900
−300 − 50 − 6 + 4 + 40 +500 + 32 = 576
632 582 576 360 400 900 932
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics should be real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies and students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill and understanding
0 12 99 10 12 99 10 12
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics should be real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies and students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill and understanding
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics should be real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies and students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill and understanding
Conclusion
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...
Do you understand? Classroom mathematics should be real-world mathematics
What are some possible problems? Teachers’ strategies and students’ strategies
What are some possible solutions? Skill and understanding
References
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Systematic errors in arithmetic of some college students.
Kamawotan, 3(1–2):74–86, May 2009.
Sid Rachlin.
Man scars—so seems lost.
In George W. Bright and Jeane M. Joyner, editors, Classroom Assessment in Mathematics: Views from a
National Science Foundation Working Conference, pages 231–241. University Press of America, 1998.
Robert Siegler.
Implications of cognitive science research for mathematics education.
In J. Kilpatrick, W. Martin, and D. Schifter, editors, A Research Companion to Principles and Standards for
School Mathematics, chapter 20, pages 219–233. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Reston,
VA, USA, 2003.
Joel Reyes Noche How do you teach college students the mathematics ...