Subject: Creativity, innovation, intuition and discovery

Posted by Sharon Villines on 10/13/2010
In Reply To:Creativity, innovation, intuition and discovery Posted by Connie Woodberry on 10/13/2010

Message:

On 14 Oct 2010, at 1:19 AM, Connie Woodberry wrote:

> The best thing a teacher can do is put every possible resource, opportunity and support in place for learning to happen and then get out of the way.

A question. Can mathematics be taught/learned this way? Without al the repetition? For example, without the forced march to memorize the times tables? I've been told the open classroom went down on mathematics and handwriting.

I know this is true of many children in many areas and of all children in a few areas. Take a junior high school boy who has not one iota of interest in being in the classroom in the first place.

Perhaps I'm being too literal about "get out of the way." I'm curious because I'm comfortable saying this about children under 12 and adults over 21 but in the great in-between in think you would have to bar the door if you weren't standing in front of it.

Sharon

Follow Ups:

Learning Math - Bob Gorman 10/14/2010 
Learning Math - Connie Woodberry 10/14/2010