Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Reflection On Assigned Reading

To start, the idea of Heather J. Robinson and my goal to mathematical teaching actually coincide. How knowledge comes about is by induction rather than by injection. The author provided her idea and posted the problems that could arise during the lecture. In fact, I have thought about these problems before and wondered how I could manage to solve these problems. The only difference was that I did not make an effort to search for a solution. Nevertheless, her solution to make students successfully acquire knowledge on their own were profound and inspirational. However, the graphical representation could be somewhat misleading. This representation alone could be interpreted quite differently. Taking away the perspectives, most of the representations of the scores would appear so much better as in there would be more students with mostly A's and some F's. The variation between the course average and the final exam would not differentiate much either. These representations, however, could not prove that the teaching mehod was better. Nevertheless, with her research taken into account, the result was actually remarkable and quite impressive. She is making some progress indeed. The only problem letf to be further discussed would be the adaptablity of the students. Not all teachers could do as well as Heather did. It is then important to know whether students can maintain their performance as they can proceedingly have different teachers over years.

ROAR!!

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