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Yes, this format makes it hard to ask very difficult questions, and the little chat bot rewarding the students with animated gifs of cartoon characters is a gim
by jacobolus 8y ago
Yes, this format makes it hard to ask very difficult questions, and the little chat bot rewarding the students with animated gifs of cartoon characters is a gimmick.
This is okay for teaching basic vocabulary and concepts, but seems to go no further than a pretty superficial exploration. Not much ingenuity or thinking is required from the students. Everything is pre-digested.
If a high school student were trying to learn about transformation geometry, working through Yaglom’s books of hard problems (Geometric Transformations, 4 thin volumes) would yield a much deeper understanding than going through https://mathigon.org/course/transformations-and-symmetry/transformations https://mathigon.org/course/transformations-and-symmetry/tra...
- robfitz 8y agoI think you're focused on making good learners great (which I assume is the journey you experienced in school), but there's also a fairly large opportunity in helping every student get up to a certain baseline of "pretty good". A student who can't grasp how to plot a point isn't going to benefit from Geometric Transformations.