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if you want to be re...great piece here, catherine.<br /><br />if you want to be really great<br />at something, this will require<br />*lots* of (at least) near-obsessive<br />work on *that one thing* (few<br />people have achieved "great"<br />accomplishments in more than<br />one field). but "dream big"<br />ideologies aside, this is usually<br />a bad idea for normal humans<br />in my opinion. so, heck yes.<br />seek "roundedness". the cliche<br />in math departments is that one<br />is more inclined to "discrete" or<br />"continuous" studies. my bias,<br />insofar as this model holds, is<br />to the discrete; i associate this<br />with my "verbal" skills being<br />better developed than my "visual"<br />skills. but i draw a lot more now...<br />in my fifties, let's say... than i did<br />in my academic-math days. and<br />copying the drawings in textbooks...<br />a darn good idea that in hindsight<br />seems obvious... didn't occur to me<br />in any why-doesn't-everybody-do-<br />-this way until fairly late in my <br />career (so i didn't get to sing its<br />praises nearly as much as i'd've<br />liked). stuff like that. but, by my<br />lights today "all the arts are one<br />art (look again, look closer)". <br />i didn't start cooking in any serious<br />way until the last decade or so,<br />either. everybody can't learn <br />everything at once. in or out<br />of schools. i'm of the "measure<br />nothing" school, pretty much. but<br />i knew a lot about fractions and<br />whatnot anyhow. this appears to<br />me to be one of the best arenas<br />to *motivate* studying the arith-<br />metic of fractions (adapting recipes<br />for different portion-sizes). also. the<br />mathiness of music is well-known...<br />but many a successful musician<br />can ignore if for a lifetime and <br />work out the moves "kinesthetically" <br />(that the high-theory guys have<br />"explained" with their fancy <br />shape-notes & whatnot); i'm learning<br />some music theory now after *lots*<br />of guitar playing, as it were despite<br />myself. so i guess you get<br />it by now. just keep working on<br />whatever project seems most<br />worthwhile and the need to learn<br />things about various arts will be clear<br />when such learning is seen to be<br />helpful in that project. that's if <br />there's world enough and time.<br />and money. oh, hi, barry. nice<br />quote!owen thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09249915192605437832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-26382030945595618822016-05-31T19:39:58.229-07:002016-05-31T19:39:58.229-07:00"You know what’s the worst kind of instructio..."You know what’s the worst kind of instruction? The kind of instruction that makes kids feel stupid. And that’s what a lot of that discovery stuff does"<br /><a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/decline-of-canadian-students-math-skills-the-fault-of-discovery-learning-c-d-howe-institute" rel="nofollow">Anna Stokke, Math professor, University of Winnipeg</a>Barry Garelickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01281266848110087415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-42810690153788585912016-05-31T09:45:04.660-07:002016-05-31T09:45:04.660-07:00Off topic:
I kept thinking about my favorite pos...Off topic: <br /><br />I kept thinking about my favorite post here: "Do not press send" last week when our 8th grader had to make an Inuit artifact for an "international village" project. I absolutely refused to have anything to do with it; after having shepherded projects at this school for years, I've had enough. The school scheduled about 2-3 hours a day two weeks for the village project, but the research part lasted about a day and a half. The rest was rehearsals for a 5 minute stage presentation and making an artifact. They barely had to know anything, read anything, or write anything on the subject. They could have spent those weeks walking the kids through the basics of a research paper and having them write it. Blah.<br /><br />High school awaits...hopefully with no artifacts.Auntie Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05777983027361603449noreply@blogger.com