How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. Jordan Ellenberg

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking


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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking Jordan Ellenberg
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Apr 24, 2014 - This is meant, I think, to convey the thin line between reality and dream, and to accent the narrator's confusion—since he himself is often not at all sure what is going on. Dec 16, 2013 - How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. Esquith writes, "Let's say I'm teaching addition. Since models are constructed by induction, they are necessarily incomplete; if all light emitted after 2015 is blue, reality isn't wrong: Maxwell's equations . If the two disagree, it is the model which is wrong. You to really think about the moves you do. Didn't I just write the other day that plaintive cries like yours are like the wife who knows she's in the wrong but who is loathe to admit, and who falls back on the non sequitur, “It's not what you said, but how you said it”? This kind of thinking can certainly lead to nonsense, usually when a Mathematical model of a Physical thing is conflated with the thing itself, ie. While it makes for an excellent test taking strategy, its real power is that gives students an engaging perspective to think more deeply about teaching and learning. Mar 23, 2014 - We look at a paper written by mathematicians and think, “Anybody smart enough to go on and on about “dimensionless parameters” and “optimal depletion factors” must know what they're talking about.” Right? You almost always lose a game because you make wrong moves. Reality has veto power over all of our models. Jan 22, 2013 - This idea will forever strike awe and wonder in me and I think is the ultimate tribute to the singularly bizarre and completely counter-intuitive worlds that science and especially mathematics can uncover. Flower Power (teaches ordering of fractions, decimals, and percents through wickedly addicting gameplay). And he defends his approach it with great determination. See the same mathematical thinking by Ma and Pa Kettle. The map is not the territory and I am not math. Reminds me to show students examples of poor work, not just good work. Apr 29, 2010 - (Here I interpret “mathematical thinking” loosely, to include not just numerical or algebraic thinking, but also geometric, abstract, logical, probabilistic, etc.) [Question for MathOverflow experts: would this ..





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