[Maths-Education] Homework

[Laurinda Brown]

I liked Peter's story of the languages teacher which I had heard before 
and liked. This seems more evidence for learning not being about using 
memory, practice etc - so - introspect - when you are learning when do 
you dwell in what you're doing? Then we might have a candidate for 
homework. The sort of thing I was thinking about in my previous message 
is where children have been working on their own questions in a 
collaborative environment and continue working with their problem both 
in and out of the classroom. Sometimes parents/guardians get involved 
too and this can have various consequences - I can remember a next-door 
neighbour, a university mathematician, once sending in a homework 
response related to a child's question that I as teacher did not 
understand - lots of energy for us all to try to sort it out though.

Laurinda

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:58:20 +0000 Peter Gates 
<peter.gates@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

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Laurinda Brown
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