Re: math didactics


"Jo Ling" <donald.duck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Brian Reay" <see@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jo Ling" <donald.duck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I wish I knew how to teach maths. When I try to help my 12-y-o with her
homework, it seems like trying to teach someone colours. Yesterday she
was
having difficulty solving:

u - 7 = 7.



Tip, try to figure out what she does know and sort of close the gap.


Yeahbutnobutyeahbut ... she had just completed a whole section of
algebraic equations of the sort x + y = z, x - y = z, where y and z were
givens. She was just having a mental block.

We all have "mental blocks" at times and maybe that was all it was.

But, sometimes, mental blocks are more that a process was been learned but
not understood. Anything that doesn't fit the process is then a problem.

Not saying that is the case here but be aware of the problem.

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73
Brian
www.g8osn.org.uk





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