Tag: mathematics
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Maths trauma is real, but it can be avoided. Here’s how.
By Oxford Insight Mathematics author and lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW Sydney, Daniel Mansfield Maths trauma, the issue highlighted in the US edition of The Conversation, is real. If a student never masters irrational numbers then when they come to trigonometry (which involves lots of irrational numbers), they will receive…
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Maths skills need to serve students beyond the next 30 minutes
By Peter Sullivan, Professor of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, Monash University. A lack of consensus about what works can make debates about education frustrating. This is especially true for the teaching and learning of mathematics. Not only is there a high level of disagreement about the teaching of the subject, but even the most…