Comments on: go(1/4)+X http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/01/26/go-forth-and-multiply/ The Official Blog of MathMojo.com - helping public school, homeschooling, unschooling students, parents, teachers and adults learn math with easy and effective methods. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:58:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Dan http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/01/26/go-forth-and-multiply/#comment-40070 Dan Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:41:01 +0000 http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/2007/01/26/go14x/#comment-40070 Lemma start by saying that I tried to facilitate learning math in HS for 10 years. Now i'm trying to do it in College for the past 10 years, and I was very frustrated on YouTube after watching that video and several of the response video's , and then trying to respond in less than x number of characters. It was a relief to come here where I felt a little less like I was in an insane world. 3 years ago some of my fellow teachers and I started a seminar in Math Ed Reform. I've not read anything but this page, but I suspect we may have a lot of ideas in common, and naturally a lot that are not so congruent. After about a year of this seminar... I started to change my ideas (imagine someone in the U.S. math ed system for 35 years waking up and realizing that more is not neccessarily better). I could go on forever about the whole thing but I just wanted to briefly thank you for this feeling of sanity that I had from reading your letter. Lemma start by saying that I tried to facilitate learning math in HS for 10 years. Now i’m trying to do it in College for the past 10 years, and I was very frustrated on YouTube after watching that video and several of the response video’s , and then trying to respond in less than x number of characters.

It was a relief to come here where I felt a little less like I was in an insane world. 3 years ago some of my fellow teachers and I started a seminar in Math Ed Reform. I’ve not read anything but this page, but I suspect we may have a lot of ideas in common, and naturally a lot that are not so congruent. After about a year of this seminar… I started to change my ideas (imagine someone in the U.S. math ed system for 35 years waking up and realizing that more is not neccessarily better). I could go on forever about the whole thing but I just wanted to briefly thank you for this feeling of sanity that I had from reading your letter.

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