by natbanting 
A huge piece of my identity is invested in being a mathematics teacher. This week I began a new and interesting challenge as a university faculty member preparing pre-service elementary and secondary mathematics teachers. This provides me more time to think deeply and openly about the entirety of the mathematics education enterprise, and put some …
by natbanting
O Canada! The debate about best practice in Canadian math education has exploded once again. This time attracting high profile combatants. This post is not meant to resolve deep-seated values, but rather provide a perspective that gets lost in the partisan arguments. It wouldn’t take a long time to place me in a camp, but …
by natbanting
I would like to begin with a conjecture: The amount of collective action in a learning system is inversely related to the possible degree of curricular specificity. The mathematical action of a group of learners centred on a particular task gives rise to a unique way of being with the problem, but also reinvents the …
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