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Thursday, June 21, 2018
Explaining Your Answers In Math
In all my discussions and readings and trainings pertaining to having students "explain" their work in math class, this one is the closest I've found to encapsulating my own thoughts:
And the more math you learn, the less easily it translates well into English.
Labels:
K-12 issues,
math/science
1 comment:
- Auntie Ann said...
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There's a scene in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, when Alan Turing is talking to one of the book's main characters. They are discussing the mathematics of real things, in the book's case, bottlecaps. Then Turing pushes further: there is math that goes beyond the math of things, it works and is internally consistent. If it has no attachment to the physical world it still math? Is it still real?
At some point, math leaves the world behind and becomes almost impossible to describe in words. - 9:14 PM
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