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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Preconceived Bias Always Trumps Critical Thinking

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In the last article, I discussed the strange phenomenon that whenever critical thinking and preconceived bias go head to head, dollars to do...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Why Critical Thinking Lessons Do Not Work

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Daniel Kahneman studies thinking. Although the interview* is discussing bias, not critical thinking, the implication is inescapable. ...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

How Should Students Show Their Math Work?

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In this post, I am pinging off Maria Miller of Math Mammoth . I recommend Math Mammoth for its concept-based lesson development and worksh...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Class Policies for High School

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These are the class policies I use for junior high and high school math and science classes. They are quite brief, but effective because stu...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

How to Evaluate a Math Textbook

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Regardless of Common Core, everybody knows that practically speaking, the textbook IS the curriculum. Therefore, it behooves textbook adopt...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Exactly Those Contrary Ideas

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Twenty years ago the late comedian Bill Hicks felt obliged to defend the blasphemous content of his stand-up routine. In so doing he said ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Increased Reporting DOES NOT Increase Achievement

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So here I am, in the land of tiger moms, where supposedly parents are highly involved in their child's education, even riding that pendu...