Minding My P's & Q's: Pedagogical Philosophy & Quintessential Quotations
Minding My P's & Q's: Pedagogical Philosophy & Quintessential Quotations
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My Pedagogical Philosophy
As a teacher I have the following seven core values... you might say I've come to "GRIPSSS" with how important each one is to a student's success:
Growth Mindset
Rapport Development
Interest Connectivity
Pattern Recognition
Student Initiation
Socratic Questioning
Student Discovery
For more on these values, click here.
My Quintessential Quotations
Nature is written in mathematical language. - Galileo Galilei
If I rush to an answer, then I rob you of an opportunity to learn. - Dan Finkel
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal themselves in all their beauty only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. - Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. - Carl Friedrich Gauss
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein
More Great Quotations about Teaching and Math
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. - Henri Poincare (I believe the same holds true for mathematicians - myself AND my students - and our subject of numbers.)
In a TED talk watched by over a million people, Wolfram (2010) proposes that working on mathematics has four stages: (1) Posing a question, (2) Going from the real world to a mathematical model, (3) Performing a calculation, and (4) Going from the model back to the real world to see if the original question was answered. The first stage involves asking a good question of some data or a situation—the first mathematical act that is needed in the workplace. - Jo Boaler
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. - Paul Halmos
Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. - Confucius
We hate what we don't understand. - Mark Anderson (read more here)
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