Posted on April 9, 2008 by Trevor Butterworth
Rebecca Goldin Ph.D
There’s no way of better inspiring people to think about math than to give them a conundrum where the stakes are high. So it is in the Monty Hall Game, which became famous on the program Let’s Make a Deal in the 1980s. The game gets played as follows. There are three doors, [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2008 by Trevor Butterworth
Rebecca Goldin Ph.D
According to USA Today, “Fractions should be scrapped” - and the whole world seems to be cheering the potential demise of perhaps the most frustrating and demanding topic in elementary school arithmetic. As the paper reported:
A few years ago, Dennis DeTurck, an award-winning professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, stood [...]
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