Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!rice!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!manis From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Teaching teaching. Message-ID: <1991May23.021100.18957@cs.ubc.ca> Date: 23 May 91 02:11:00 GMT References: Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News) Organization: Institute for Pure and Applied Eschatology Lines: 25 In article david.lloyd-jones@rose.uucp (DAVID LLOYD-JONES) writes: >This assumes that there is a body of knowledge, "knowledge about the >teaching of...." > >I would be interested to know if you have evidence for this. There is indeed a body of knowledge about the teaching of mathematics. To be precise, there are two such bodies, one developed by mathematicians and teachers who have attempted to teach mathematics, and one developed by educational theorists who teach mathematics methods courses. I took a mathematics methods course some 15 years ago as part of my teacher-training program. On the first day, we spent the afternoon doing anything we wanted to with Cuisenaire rods (those coloured wooden rods they use in elementary school). I built a house. It was a very nice house. I had a lot of fun. I felt good. I learned nothing about teaching mathematics. Later on we built more houses. -- \ Vincent Manis "There is no law that vulgarity and \ Department of Computer Science literary excellence cannot coexist." /\ University of British Columbia -- A. Trevor Hodge / \ Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1W5 (604) 228-2394