Real World + Math = Less Effective?
Friday, April 25th, 2008 @ 5:15 pm | Education
The New York Times reports on an interesting study that says all the real world examples that pop up in Math programs may just be a gigantic waste of time:
“The motivation behind this research was to examine a very widespread belief about the teaching of mathematics, namely that teaching students multiple concrete examples will benefit learning,” said Jennifer A. Kaminski, a research scientist at the Center for Cognitive Science at Ohio State. “It was really just that, a belief.”
They talk further about how the use of real world examples obscures the math concepts that need to be learned.
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