This web site is an archive that serves as a portal to a collection of challenges and essays devoted to The Art & Craft
of Posing Problems & Making Conjectures Expanding Teachers' and Students'
Mathematical 'Habits of Mind'
This archive has two primary goals - - to help
teachers think deeply about aspects of mathematics that they know
and are expected to teach, and - to (re)awaken teachers' own intellectual curiosity and mathematical creativity My perspective... I believe that the essence of ... ...teaching is posing a provocative & engaging next question at the proper moment ...mathematics is making, exploring, proving & disproving conjectures and I take it to heart when Georg Cantor says "In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it" going further... For a detailed look at my courses on Problem Posing with Interactive Images click here To explore a proposed way of distinguishing skill tasks from understanding tasks click here Judah L. Schwartz
 mathMINDhabits by Judah L. Schwartz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. |