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re: effectiveness of lectures
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Jun 30, 1995 5:31 PM
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Re: re: effectiveness of lectures
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Jun 30, 1995 4:27 PM
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Lucille wrote: ....... [Kent has brought up, for me, an important issue with the words: "'certain kinds' of knowledge" I can only think of one type of mathematical knowledge that is best conveyed via telling and that is the terminology that is in common usage for communicating with others about certain conceptual understandings. Can anyone please tell me other kinds of mathematical knowledge that are best transmitted by telling as opposed to constructing?]
My only comment here is that I feel lecture does not only include "telling". Lecture to me includes "constructing", "telling", "asking", "probing"........
Harv Becker
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