Week 13 Problem-solving (April 9 - 15) [April 11, 2012, 8:39 a.m.]
This week's content theme is problem-solving.
TASK
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This part of the task is about finding similarities in different things, and differences in similar things. Compare and contrast problems with:
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Exercises - Puzzles
- Projects
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- Sometimes you can't implement all aspects of problem-solving because of time or other constraints. Which aspects you absolutely must keep, no matter what, so the task is still problem-solving?
- Jerome Bruner famously said, "We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development." Do you agree kids of any age can engage in real mathematical problem-solving? Why?