Quotable Maths: Papert

"Do away with the curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn."
- Seymour Papert

Colin

Colin is a Weymouth maths tutor, author of several Maths For Dummies books and A-level maths guides. He started Flying Colours Maths in 2008. He lives with an espresso pot and nothing to prove.

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Where do you teach?

I teach in my home in Abbotsbury Road, Weymouth.

It's a 15-minute walk from Weymouth station, and it's on bus routes 3, 8 and X53. On-road parking is available nearby.

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Ask Uncle Colin: Dividing Decimals www.flyingcoloursmaths.co.uk/a…
July 8, 2020 9:00 am
I find analogies really useful for informing my intuition — a rough mental model borrowed from another field can gi… twitter.com/i/web/status/12804…
July 7, 2020 12:29 pm
I think I've pretty much always taught using numbers. twitter.com/stammer_teacher/st…
July 6, 2020 9:00 pm
π/4 equals 1, minus a third, plus a fifth, minus a seventh, plus a ninth, minus an eleventh, plus a thirteenth, min… twitter.com/i/web/status/12801…
July 6, 2020 12:28 pm
Right now I’m skeptical that we *can* drive through all this floodwater, but we are where we are primarily because… twitter.com/i/web/status/12801…
July 6, 2020 12:10 pm

Quotable Maths: Papert

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