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Re: How teaching factors rather than multiplicand & multiplier confuses kids!
Posted:
Nov 12, 2012 5:57 PM
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On Nov 11, 2012, at 8:01 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have this theory that there is a natural progression to all of this. When we lay down the ideas and theory of mathematics in a student, that process inevitably follows the same pattern in which it was discovered by humankind.
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> Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny -- an over-used, over-applied cliche
> that's often misleading when not plain wrong
Actually, it is pretty well accepted in the context I put it.
Bob Hansen
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