{"id":8962,"date":"2011-06-14T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8962"},"modified":"2011-06-14T03:00:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T08:00:04","slug":"in-this-concave-space-defined-by-orthogonal-dividers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8962","title":{"rendered":"In this Concave Space, Defined by Orthogonal Dividers, \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quantumprogress.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/10\/multiplication-smackdown-sal-kahn-vs-vi-hart\u2014whos-got-the-insight\/\">Multiplication smackdown: Sal Khan vs Vi Hart\u2014who\u2019s got the \u2018insight\u2019?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As usual, Vi delivers a gigantic heaping of insight into what multiplication is, why these algorithms work, along with a handful of sarcasm and one of the most important critiques of math education and obsession with notation I\u2019ve seen in the past month or so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(New Vi Hart video in the link)<\/p>\n<p>One has to acknowledge that there are different goals in mind for the two videos, but a shortcoming of &#8220;turn the crank&#8221; cookbook instruction is that you won&#8217;t know what to do if you ever encounter a new situation, which is why conveying the deeper understanding is a winner in the long run.  Add some enthusiasm for the beauty of math, and that will help foster an interest.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiplication smackdown: Sal Khan vs Vi Hart\u2014who\u2019s got the \u2018insight\u2019? As usual, Vi delivers a gigantic heaping of insight into what multiplication is, why these algorithms work, along with a handful of sarcasm and one of the most important critiques &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}