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Memory and Awareness

November 3, 2016November 3, 2016Oxford Maths 1 Comment
Trigonometry

Isn’t it amazing how quickly and easily adolescents can learn the words of a song, and yet they struggle to remember mathematical formulae? Memory in mathematics is quite peculiar. In common with learning the words of a song, once you get started, it can be surprising how much comes back, but, as with songs, it […]

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What Bruner Really Meant: a personal viewpoint

May 17, 2016June 9, 2016Oxford Primary 2 Comments

Few if any of us who are involved in mathematics education will be unfamiliar with the name Jerome Bruner. Born in 1915, his ideas have had a huge influence on the way we have taught mathematics to children in the last 60 years or so. Bruner’s work on developmental psychology is almost certainly a ‘de-rigeur’ […]

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