CTK Insights

Valerie Strauss in the Answer Sheet blog tells us of the "most powerful learning experience" Arne Duncan, the US Secretary of Education, shared with author and educator Sam Chaltain. Arne Duncan's Learning Story I grew up going to my mother’s afterschool tutoring program in a church basement on the South Side of Chicago. It is [...]

Here is a question: should students be given partial credit for incomplete solutions. I was still reading Andrei Toom's online book to which I referred in the previous post when I was advised on twitter.com that New York City Council is in turmoil over a controversial policy that gives students partial credit for wrong answers [...]

I've been following the links the new edition of the Carnival of Mathematics sponsored by the Wild About Math! blog. This is an issue #66, and it appears that I have learned about this undertaking relatively late, of which I regret. It is a curious collection of online articles. The next submissions deadline is set [...]

I thought it could be a good idea to collect the links that narrate Diane Ravitch's story which impressed me on two accounts: A notable educator appears to have switched sides in the "math wars" discourse. Taking the sides, in the first place, appears to have been based on tastes, upbringing, experiences, but not on [...]

From now on, the NCTM Newsletter will include a Problem to Ponder personally selected by NCTM President Mike Shaughnessy. Here's the first one concerning simple probabilities. Does It Matter Which Winner You Saw? Scenario: Students at your school have just finished competing in the qualifying round of a nationally sponsored contest on mathematical reasoning and [...]

A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart is one book I wish I had written. The points concerning mathematics and math education raised in the book are very close to those in my manifesto. Mathematics plays a tremendously important role in science and engineering as a tool and often the vehicle of progress (especially in modern [...]

I've been interviewed by Maria Droujkova from the Natural Math site. The event has been mentioned in a very popular and distinguished blog Wild About Math by Sol Lederman. Thank you, Sol. Though I have reservations as to what I said and how I said it, the tool Maria used - the Elliminate software from [...]