Yesterday, after posting our GAT WitCH, we were contacted by Mysterious Chris. He flagged another set of questions from the same exam:
Continue reading “WitCH 104: They Cantor Won’t Get it Right”
Yesterday, after posting our GAT WitCH, we were contacted by Mysterious Chris. He flagged another set of questions from the same exam:
Continue reading “WitCH 104: They Cantor Won’t Get it Right”
One of the shiny new expressions of mathematics education is algorithmic thinking or, if one prefers, computational thinking. It is 10% shrewd rebranding and 90% poisonous snake oil. The new Australian Curriculum is full of it. Continue reading “New Cur 26: Algorithmic Sinking”
Yep, ACARA hates algorithms. That may come as a surprise, since ACARA evidently loves the word “algorithm”; it appears fifty-seven times in the draft curriculum. They love something. But it’s not algorithms.