“Today’s math curriculum is teaching students to expect — and excel at — paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them”:
Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | Talk Video | TED.com.
Can’t agree more, and it is not only math but in all fields. This is a major issue once at graduate level where you need find by yourself the interesting problems, you get to ask the tough questions and, as a bonus, you need to solve them yourself.
While the frenzy is going on today for the iPhone 6, our venerable 3GS is still functioning perfectly after its 5th “birthday”! A small break on the screen but iOS6 still look good and still allow for the key functions (web, social networks, email, iMessage/SMS, contact, calendar and, of course, phone). Perfect secondary cellphone for our house.
Forbes ran an interesting piece on expectations of technologies from the newest to the “obsolete” ones (in term of expectation that is!): It’s Official: The Internet Of Things Takes Over Big Data As The Most Hyped Technology. The data came from a report made by Gartner in August 2014.
Just completed the reading of the book the Art of Explanation by Lee Lefever. I must admit that although I really like Nancy Duarte’s duo Slide:ology and Resonate, Lefever’s book does focus on concepts that are also not that well covered in the other books. In particular, knowing your audience: to whom are you presenting and for what purpose.
Enjoy: The Feynman Lectures on Physics.
With everything being done to women in some Islamic countries, the announcement that one of this year four winners of the highest distinction in the field of mathematics, the Fields medal, is not only the first woman to win it but also Iranian born should be celebrated first for her realization but also for the symbolic of it!
Details of her work can be found in Scientific American: Iranian Woman Nabs Highest Prize in Mathematics – Scientific American.
Ruminating... 