If dealing with AMT nonsense is not enough, now Tom has a new post on his Teaching Mathematics blog, promoting the wonders and joys of Discovery Based Learning. Please go visit Tom’s blog and yell at him.*
*) Nicely.
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What gets under my skin is Tom’s satisfaction with designing lessons for Betty, or as he optimistically hopes for, “a sprinkling of Bettys”. At the heart of discovery based learning is inequity and low expectations for the majority.
Don’t tell me, tell him!
Tom isn’t even really talking about discovery based learning (yes Marty I told him).
I know.