Broken links fixed 1/1/2014
Today I came across Alexandre Borovik's Mathematics Under the Microscope blog, set up to support Borovik's book of the same title. The blog has plenty of interesting, funny, and challenging observations and insights, about mathematics, about learning and teaching, and about the politics of education. I particularly enjoyed these two.
- What is missing from the social constructivist theories of mathematics? which likens developing as a mathematician to being a dog trainer - "Mathematician is a dog trainer; his subconscious is his 'inner dog', a wordless creature with fantastic abilities, for example, for image processing, or for parsing of symbolic input. Mathematician has to train his 'inner dog'."
- Psychophysiology of blackboard teaching, from which the lovely image above from Samira Makhmalbaf's film "Blackboards" is shamelessly stolen.
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