What Makes A Good Math Teacher? - Page 2

ThePerfectHacker · #16 $Old$ June 13th, 2007, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Plato $View Post$

Why would you pick a dwarf over a giant?

Of course not. But if was not allowed to pick Euler I would be very tempted to say Ramanjuan. Because I like that style of math solving.

Rebesques · #17 $Old$ June 14th, 2007, 06:43 AM

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I must ask you to expand on that observation. What does it mean?
What do you know about George Polya and any of his students?
The Mathematics Genealogy Project - George PÃ³lya
Did you read the links to Keith Devlin’s articles about his assessment of RL Moore that I posted above? Polya was a great admirer of Moore and the Moore Method, as is Paul Halmos. There I have named three of the greatest mathematicians who were also great teachers in the 20th century.

I mean that, when a good idea becomes institutionalized, soon everyone is eager to forget all about it

ps. My first exposure to Polya's ideas came over an old copy of "How to solve it", lying on the floor of a trashy bookshop, in -the otherwise unworthy of mentioning- 1996.