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Adrien Pouliot Award Lecture
- PETER TAYLOR, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
The structure of a mathematics curriculum
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In mathematics, courses are arguably conceived and structured around
significant ideas. But, for many (interesting) reasons, the final
organization (or fine-structure) of the course looks more like a
coherent set of technical fragments. This is particularly true at the
school level, but is also evident in introductory service courses at
university. Of course the ideas orchestrate these fragments into an
elegant whole, but little of that is apparent to most students and the
impression of the subject that they carry forward is narrow and
technical. I will argue for an alternative model based on interesting
examples.
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