by MathPickle | Apr 2, 2024 | Muse of Mathematics, Teaching Technique Discussion
Here are several pedagogic ideas that I use when working with young students Kindergarten to grade 2. I find these the most exhausting classrooms, so I admire teachers who spend their working life here! I could not do what you do. Experiment… If it works for...
by MathPickle | Mar 31, 2024 | Teaching Technique Discussion
Teaching remotely is difficult. These four Zoom classrooms could be part of a discussion on how to teach remotely. The children here are not average. Most are gifted. At least one is a genius. The span of ability is roughly the same as an average class. The first...
by MathPickle | Jan 23, 2022 | Teaching Technique Discussion
“Fill the gaps!” is the command of many well-intentioned educators. Math especially succumbs to this twisted pedagogy because math is more obviously hierarchical with lower building blocks being required to understand higher building blocks. What is wrong...
by MathPickle | Jul 11, 2021 | Teaching Technique Discussion
Sofya Kovalevskaya and Marian Small would have had good conversations had they been contemporaries. Sofya Kovalevskaya was a mathematician in an age where mathematics was a man’s domain. Marian Small is Canada’s most prolific math educator. Here is a quote...
