Kommentare zu: Suggestions on Math Education

Von: Heinz Roitner

Heinz Roitner — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:34:17 +0000

I am approaching 61 and have dealt with (applied) mathematics as teacher in high schools and universities and worked in industry for 20 years. I still hold dear an axiom which goes back to St Thomas Aquinas (800 years ago):
„Nothing is in the brain which has not been in the senses before.“ Preferably, ALL SENSES.
For mathematics that means to me: practice calculations and drawings BY HAND extensively up to an age of 14.
Only then you may use calculators or (mathematical) software.

Von: admin

admin — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:52:34 +0000

Als Antwort auf Franz Lemmermeyer. Ich weiß nicht, was Sie meinen.

Von: Franz Lemmermeyer

Franz Lemmermeyer — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 08:38:25 +0000

„This starts in primary classes, where calculators replace the external drill of written computations. Later, we should start to ask ourselves if extensive skill and practice in tricks of calculus is really needed any longer. Low-level computations in the head and an understanding of the sizes of numbers (which most people lack) looks more important to me. “

Von einem Mathematiker hätte ich erwartet, dass er einen Denkfehler dieser Größenordnung sieht. Si tacuisses . . .