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Teaching the gentle art of estimations

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 11:21 am

Written by: Stephanie Chasteen

Our education research group here at University of Colorado had a visit and a very interesting talk by Sanjoy Mahajan, director of the teaching and learning laboratory at MIT and former physics professor, last semester. He focuses on understanding and improving students number sense, mostly through use of approximations and estimations. He’s a […]

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