Camden Education Center

There is usually a flurry of activity regarding "pi" on 14th March each year, since the first 3 digits of the decimal approximation for pi are 3.14.

This year is a bit more special, as the next 2 digits of pi are 15, so we have 3.1415, or 3/14/15 (as written in the USA).

Happy Pi Day!

This is a fascinating story. See the full story at: Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius.
http://news.discovery.com/human/life/brain-injury-turns-man-into-math-genius-140506.htm

Brain Injury Turns Man Into Math Genius : DNews A man with a traumatic brain injury developed the remarkable ability to see the world mathematically.

This quote comes from Annie Murphy Paul. It's a summary of the Rothstein and Santana book, Make Just One Change: Teach Students To Ask Their Own Questions:
"This book makes two simple arguments: 1) All students should learn how to formulate their own questions. 2) All teachers can easily teach this skill as part of their regular practice. This inspiration for the first argument came from an unusual source. Parents in the low-income community of Lawrence, Massachusetts, with whom we were working twenty years ago told us that they did not participate in their children's education nor go to their children's schools because they 'didn't even know what to ask.' It turns out that they were actually pointing to a glaring omission in most formal and informal educational enterprises. The skill of being able to generate a wide range of questions and strategize about how to use them effectively is rarely, if ever, deliberately taught. In fact, it has too often been limited to students who have access to an elite education. Our goal is to democratize this teaching of an essential thinking and learning skill that is also an essential democratic skill." —Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana, Make Just One Change: Teach Students To Ask Their Own Questions
Until next time, enjoy whatever you learn.