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I think you should check out the math book he wrote, "Measurement," and you'll find in it that he does not teach in the style you describe (abstract to specific
by j2kun 12y ago
I think you should check out the math book he wrote, "Measurement," and you'll find in it that he does not teach in the style you describe (abstract to specific).
- jnbiche 12y agoThanks, I'll check that out. It's very possible that I got the wrong impression here, but he does explicitly talk about teaching deductively in this essay: SIMPLICIO: Then what should we do with young children in math class? SALVIATI: Play games! Teach them Chess and Go, Hex and Backgammon, Sprouts and Nim, whatever. Make up a game. Do puzzles. Expose them to situations where deductive reasoning is necessary. Don’t worry about notation and technique, help them to become active and creative mathematical thinkers.
- j2kun 12y agoI think maybe he means something different from you here. I interpret deductive reasoning here as, "situations where you need to use logical arguments instead of being told what to do and repeating it with slightly different numbers."