Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can use to help students?

Re:Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can ... by chongli on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @01:08AM (#40351800)

Math gets more playful and fun the more you study. The most fun I’ve had with math was when working through difficult proofs in logic, analysis, abstract algebra, and geometry.

Some of the math learned in high school can be made more fun and playful with applications such as you mentioned, or with contest math designed for high school students. For a few years now I’ve been involved with the CEMC [1] (at my Alma mater) as a grader for the Euclid math contest which I think is quite fun without requiring anything beyond high school math (doesn’t even require calculus).

[1] https://cemc.uwaterloo.ca/contests/contests.html

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Re:Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can ... by nordstreem on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @01:13AM (#40351827)

Not an endorsement but a criticism of how schools teach math: https://www.mentava.com/

According to Mentava their program has 5th graders ready for AP math and middle schoolers ready for college computer science.

20 minutes a day.

It’s just another language. A lot of people see it as esoteric wizardry; the debbil in der math, Bobby!

One plus one

1+1

Same thing, less parchment, less writing stick needed. It’s data compression for an era where Walmart didn’t exist

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Re:Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can ... by raverbashing on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @04:43AM (#40352929)

> Math gets more playful and fun the more you study.

But not in the way teachers/professors teach it. Quite the contrary

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