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mzteris

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3. computation vs. concept

Reply to Boojatta (Original post)

Sun Feb 5, 2012, 03:47 PM

Feb 2012

One may be excellent at the one and very bad at the other.

Children are usually taught calculation. If they do poorly, people think they're "bad at math" - when in reality they just may excel in conceptualization of mathematics. If they do well (in calculation) people think they're "smart" at math - and are then quite dumb-founded that they reach higher level mathematics and perform very very poorly indeed.

One explanation for this (but not in all cases, of course) is dyscalcula a/k/a dyscalculia...

Far far too many teachers don't even know this LD exists, much less know what to DO about it. Same thing with dysgraphia, but I digress.

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Whoever has less math anxiety wins [View all] Boojatta Feb 2012 OP

huh? sorcrow Feb 2012 #1

A million years ago, I had a great high school math teacher who assured us that math mbperrin Feb 2012 #2

computation vs. concept mzteris Feb 2012 #3

Baloney proud2BlibKansan Feb 2012 #4

The title of the OP is wildly unrelated to the content discussed in Wildberger's article.... xocet Feb 2012 #5

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