{"id":205,"date":"2012-02-04T21:42:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T04:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jasmeetvirk533\/?page_id=205"},"modified":"2012-02-04T21:42:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T04:42:57","slug":"inquiry-c","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jasmeetvirk533\/inquiry\/inquiry-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After listening to Conrad Wolfram talk about Teaching kids real math with computers, I have been somewhat confused. I agreed with a lot of what I heard and a lot perplexed me!<\/p>\n<p>I agree that Math is more than computation. And so we can leave the menial job of calculations to technology as we focus on more crucial issues.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad gives the analogy that we can drive a car without understanding the details of how its engine works. But then is it a fair comparison? I rather compare it to cooking where I add ingredients knowing what effect each bring to my recipe. Not understanding the role of each ingredient may mess up my cooking.<\/p>\n<p>In math we need to know what goes into solving the problem [ and yes I agree that we make these problems more relevant and real]<\/p>\n<p>Conrad says that if procedures are important let the students program them. I wholeheartedly agree.But the question is- don&#8217;t they need to understand the basics so they can create programs for them?<br \/>\nMay be one day it will make sense&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/60OVlfAUPJg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After listening to Conrad Wolfram talk about Teaching kids real math with computers, I have been somewhat confused. I agreed with a lot of what I heard and a lot perplexed me! I agree that Math is more than computation. And so we can leave the menial job of calculations to technology as we focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3836,"featured_media":0,"parent":86,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jasmeetvirk533\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jasmeetvirk533\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jasmeetvirk533\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jasmeetvirk533\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jasmeetvirk533\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jasmeetvirk533\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jasmeetvirk533\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions\/208"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jasmeetvirk533\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jasmeetvirk533\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}