Gowers, William Timothy
(2019)
How Craig Barton wishes he’d taught maths.
At Right Angles (5).
pp. 83-88.
ISSN 2582-1873
Abstract
A couple of months ago, I can’t remember precisely how, I
became aware of a book called How I Wish I’d Taught Maths,
by Craig Barton, that seemed to be highly thought of. The basic
idea was that Craig Barton is an experienced, and by the sound
of things very good, maths teacher who used to take a number
of aspects of teaching for granted, until he looked into the
mathematics-education literature and came to realize that many
of his cherished beliefs were completely wrong. Since I’ve always
been interested in the question of how best to teach mathematics,
both because of my own university teaching and because from
time to time I like to pontificate about school-level teaching,
I decided to order the book. More surprisingly, given my past
history of buying books that I felt I ought to read, I read it from
cover to cover, all 450 pages of it.
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