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What
I hope Project RENEW will be able to communicate to beginning teachers.
- Students
learn mathematics best when they’re interested in the problems
that they are working on.
- It helps
when new information is presented in the context of something already
understood. Otherwise it is more difficult for the learner and can sometimes
cause harm by creating learning distress.
- The main
impediment to children’s learning of mathematics is the undermining
of their confidence in their intelligence to think mathematically that
happens during the well meaning, but misguided, attempt to tell them
how to do mathematics.
- The repression
of natural physiological processes (crying, shaking, laughing, yawning,
tantruming and talking) that help people recover from learning distress,
is a major obstacle to students’ understanding of mathematics.
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