Jason Gauthier, Ph.D.
@jgauthier13.bsky.social
Mathematics Education Consultant/Coach; Dad to 3 boys; science nerd; amateur blacksmith; sci-fi fan
Just got my first Pi Day email for the year. Time to be grumpy cat again! 😾
March 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Just got my first Pi Day email for the year. Time to be grumpy cat again! 😾
Amen to all of this. The brain is not a computer, and as soon as you model it like one, no amount of modification will correct the issue.
After my morning conversation w/ @cmooreanderson.bsky.social about teaching practice rooted in cybernetics & systems theory, I've never been more convinced that bad computing metaphors about information, storage, & retrieval are not merely benign but are an impediment to human learning.
Just thumbing through it in the car waiting to pick my kids up and I can tell I am *really* going to dig this @cmooreanderson.bsky.social! 👀
January 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Amen to all of this. The brain is not a computer, and as soon as you model it like one, no amount of modification will correct the issue.
Agree with this critique! Another might be pushback against the surety with which advocates speak. There is no acknowledgment of nuance, context, or limit to their chosen research base. There are many things we don't know, and no research offers guarantees, but advocates ignore all of this.
If one were having a good faith conversation w/ #ScienceOfMath leaders, what critique or Q would you have for them?
www.thescienceofmath.com
I'll start w/ a critique.
The definition of evidence is quite limiting. And it may be that they are relying primarily on studies familiar to the leaders.
www.thescienceofmath.com
I'll start w/ a critique.
The definition of evidence is quite limiting. And it may be that they are relying primarily on studies familiar to the leaders.
The Science of Math
We provide resources related to effective math instruction. Our goal is to ensure that all students, regardless of background or status, have equitable access to high-quality math instruction. To guid...
www.thescienceofmath.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Agree with this critique! Another might be pushback against the surety with which advocates speak. There is no acknowledgment of nuance, context, or limit to their chosen research base. There are many things we don't know, and no research offers guarantees, but advocates ignore all of this.
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New publication alert!
Happy to share a new pub in Investigations in Mathematics Learning by myself, @mandymathed.bsky.social , Jim Middleton, and Cathy Cullicott doi.org/10.1080/1947... (1/10)
Potentially engaging mathematics teaching practices in secondary classrooms: Investigating observation tool validity and score reliability
The purpose of this report is to present our process for establishing evidence of validity and reliability of an observation tool [PEMTP: Potentially Engaging Mathematics Teaching Practices] used t...
doi.org
January 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New publication alert!
This is the kind of reasoning that will take kids far in math. We can "formalize" or "cannonize" the final answer later.
Her answer to 1/2 + 2/3 is unconventional but mathematically correct. Not sure what to do next. Maybe show her work to the class (with her permission) and ask for their feedback?
December 13, 2024 at 3:37 PM
This is the kind of reasoning that will take kids far in math. We can "formalize" or "cannonize" the final answer later.
This. We continue to place more responsibility on schools to cure the myriad ills that our society inflicts on children. The reality is that good pedagogy can only do so much. Far better would be to show societal charity and compassion. Feed the kids, stuff like that. Schools can take it from there.
TIMMS & other international assessments simply highlight the unique child poverty problem in the United States among its OECD peers. What can schooling & instruction can do to close a 26.2% child poverty rate that robust social programs & anti-poverty policy wouldn't do better & more effectively?
December 4, 2024 at 3:04 PM
This. We continue to place more responsibility on schools to cure the myriad ills that our society inflicts on children. The reality is that good pedagogy can only do so much. Far better would be to show societal charity and compassion. Feed the kids, stuff like that. Schools can take it from there.
It's me!! I'm the second one!
there are two kinds of writers:
those who write pages of bantering dialogue and realize they didn't describe anything in the scene
and those who write pages of detailed description and realize no one's spoken for eight pages
those who write pages of bantering dialogue and realize they didn't describe anything in the scene
and those who write pages of detailed description and realize no one's spoken for eight pages
November 26, 2024 at 10:17 PM
It's me!! I'm the second one!
Reposted by Jason Gauthier, Ph.D.
I remain awed by Greg Ashman's sheer commitment to not understanding inquiry-based & constructivist pedagogies. And for all of the caricatures offered of ideas he dislikes, "fully explained" & "fully demonstrated" are load bearing concepts that are themselves soft as butter. 🙄
November 23, 2024 at 5:22 PM
I remain awed by Greg Ashman's sheer commitment to not understanding inquiry-based & constructivist pedagogies. And for all of the caricatures offered of ideas he dislikes, "fully explained" & "fully demonstrated" are load bearing concepts that are themselves soft as butter. 🙄
Reposted by Jason Gauthier, Ph.D.
Constructivism recognizes that communication cannot be “faultless”.
To develop shared meanings of ideas and terms, one must engage in inquiry, through posing questions to others and of oneself. #iTeachMath
To develop shared meanings of ideas and terms, one must engage in inquiry, through posing questions to others and of oneself. #iTeachMath
November 15, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Constructivism recognizes that communication cannot be “faultless”.
To develop shared meanings of ideas and terms, one must engage in inquiry, through posing questions to others and of oneself. #iTeachMath
To develop shared meanings of ideas and terms, one must engage in inquiry, through posing questions to others and of oneself. #iTeachMath