{"id":1085,"date":"2019-05-07T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2019-05-07T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:33:11","slug":"taking-the-inquiry-out-of-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/taking-the-inquiry-out-of-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Inquiry out of Maths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Downes commented on a couple of articles about instructivist math instruction vs. inquiry based approaches. It was the final comment that caught me a bit by surprise<\/p>\n[quote cite=&#8221;Stephen Downes&#8221; url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/cgi-bin\/page.cgi?post=69447&#8243;]If you just want to do math, then the instructivist approach will work fine. But if you want to be a mathematician, then you need the inquiry method.[\/quote]\n<p>Generally, whenever I hear about math instruction the arguments or reasoning for taking a specific approach is not as clear as what I think Stephen captured in just two sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Downes commented on a couple of articles about instructivist math instruction vs. inquiry based approaches. It was the final comment that caught me a bit by surprise [quote cite=&#8221;Stephen Downes&#8221; url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/cgi-bin\/page.cgi?post=69447&#8243;]If you just want to do math, then the instructivist approach will work fine. But if you want to be a mathematician, then you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quick-reflections-and-webmentions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}