| Discussion: | Roundtable |
| Topic: | Lower-order & higher-order knowledge and skills |
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| Subject: | Lower-order & higher-order knowledge and skills |
| Author: | moursund |
| Date: | Aug 3 2004 |
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knowledge and skills, and what constitutes higher-order math knowledge and
skills. We know that students need both lower-order and higher-order math
knowledge and skills.
Just for the fun of it, I often suggest to my student that an "interesting"
definition of lower-order is that if a computer can do it, than it is
lower-order.
This "contraversial" definition allows an interesting discussion of a wide range
of Math Tools. It suggests that we can spend much less time teaching
lower-order math knowledge and skills (replacing this with students learning
some Math Tools), and then spend the time that is saved on higher-order math
knowledge and skills.
I'd like to hear some other people's thoughts on this.
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