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Topic: Of Interest
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Louis Talman

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Re: Why Dehaene is Wrong
Posted: Nov 3, 2012 6:17 PM
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On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Robert Hansen <bob@rsccore.com> wrote:

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>
> And let me add. These alleged real world problem courses get so screwed up
> because the authors think like Dehaene. They think there is some magical
> innate sense that is being suppressed and can be released if we would only
> stop teaching the math and let the children discover it on their own. With
> calculators.
>
>
This is a distortion of what Dehaene suggests. He thinks that many kids
don't connect the standard algorithms with their innate quantitative
sense---which remains intact and as correct as it ever was.

That's quite a different suggestion.

And, once again, I said nothing about the use of calculators.
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10/29/12
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Louis Talman
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Robert Hansen
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Robert Hansen
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Louis Talman
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Robert Hansen
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Louis Talman
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Robert Hansen
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