Archive for July, 2009

Going Beyond Math Story Problems

Going Beyond Math Story Problems

I’m an elementary mathematics methods professor at the University of Oklahoma and recently I coordinated a project to help pre-service teachers create stories with math questions that are enhanced with technology.Small groups of elementary pre-service teachers collaborated by posting (non-consecutively) to a wiki (on www.wikispaces.com) in order to co-create a “story of the day” and [...]

Teaching Elementary Math

Teaching Elementary Math

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ~John Louis von Neumann “The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.” S. Gudder Someone asked me once: “Why do you pay so much importance [...]