Meet some people who dream of developing creative mathematical thought by changing mathematics education.
Dan Meyer speaks about the elements of patient problem solving.
Neil Turok dreams of developing Africa's creative potential, and perhaps finding the next Einstein there, by providing the continent's top students access to excellent mathematics education.
Don Cohen has been teaching the mathematical principles that form the basis of Calculus to children as young as 7 years old.
Don works with children, using visualizations of mathematical situations to find patterns and make new discoveries. Don's website includes a New Discoveries page, which contains links to the flip chart pages on which new discoveries were made by young children. Check out Don's A Map to Calculus
for a comprehensive look at which skills and understandings build to the study of calculus.
for a comprehensive look at which skills and understandings build to the study of calculus.