Timeline for Best way to teach concept of real numbers using a hands-on activity?
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| Mar 9, 2010 at 13:33 | vote | accept | mshafrir | ||
| Mar 9, 2010 at 0:39 | answer | added | Wlog | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 21:51 | answer | added | LSpice | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 21:38 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | @Gerald Edgar: thanks for backing me up on this. As to how things have changed from 20 years ago (when I was in middle school!): no one seems to think that they have changed for the better. | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 21:33 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | I think many of the answers here are far beyond middle school. Here is a true story. It is from maybe 20 years ago, so perhaps things have changed. One of my university colleagues gave me the story. There was a course for future teachers. It included a unit on use of a calculator. Then one day they came to some problem with a decimal answer. The students objected: "We will be teaching middle school, so we are not required to know decimals!" The professor tried to suggest that they might want to know decimals for their own personal use, even if they didn't teach them. No good. | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 21:28 | answer | added | Gerald Edgar | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 21:19 | answer | added | Pete L. Clark | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 21:04 | answer | added | Bruce Westbury | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 20:38 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | We need more information here. What do the real numbers mean in a middle school algebra course? Infinite not necessarily repeating decimals? What is it about the real numbers that your teacher friend (or his/her curriculum) desires middle school students to know? | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 20:28 | answer | added | Harry Gindi | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 20:18 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | I retagged this with math-ed and real-analysis, but I'm not sure that the r-a tag is appropriate. | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 20:10 | history | edited | Harry Gindi |
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| Mar 8, 2010 at 20:05 | answer | added | Steven Gubkin | timeline score: 11 | |
| Mar 8, 2010 at 19:42 | history | asked | mshafrir | CC BY-SA 2.5 |