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Benjamin Braun Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0027 USA Phone: (859) 257-6810 Fax: (859) 257-4078 Email: benjamin.braun "at" uky "dot" edu |
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For good reasons and bad, students typically define their skill by reproducing rather than questioning or revising the work of their teachers (or the work of those their teachers ask them to read). It is important to read generously and carefully and to learn to submit to projects that others have begun. But it is also important to know what you are doing -- to understand where this work comes from, whose interests it serves, how and where it is kept together by will rather than desire, and what it might have to do with you. To fail to ask fundamental questions -- Where am I in this? How can I make my mark? Whose interests are represented? What can I learn by reading with and against the grain? -- to fail to ask these questions is to mistake skill for understanding, and it is to misunderstand the goals of a liberal education.
Ways of Reading, David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting set of ideas that is the math of the world, and is curiously different and surprisingly engaging. Our task is to introduce this second version to today's students, get them excited about math, and prepare them for the future.
What's Math Got to Do with It?, Jo Boaler
