cnieldemencha's comments

Wrong. There IS software that presents math using Guided Discovery. In a visual manner that doesn’t hide the math. It also stresses introducing the conceptual BEFORE the computational as you do. The software is the online “ST math” program that has shown a respectable effect size and statistically significant gains under randomized controlled trials. It is definitely worth discussing this program and not blanketing all math ed tech as bad. Can you comment on this?

The info is…

http://mindresearch.net/cont/programs/demo/tours/SolvingLine...

and the randomized control trail is…

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_...

http://gse.uci.edu/docs/Kibrick_handout.pdf