Monday, September 14, 2015

Richard Skemp article: Instrumental vs. relational ways of knowing in mathematics



Here is our first article, an old but influential one:




Richard Skemp on instrumental vs. relational ways of knowing in mathematics

Please read this article and write a response on your blog by 9 AM Wednesday Sept. 16. Your response should be brief (1-2 paragraphs), but full of interesting ideas. You should NOT summarize the article in this response, but you should talk about:

• three things that made you "stop" as you read this piece, and why
• where you stand on the issue Skemp raises, and why.

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