Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Cultural Variations: Brain or Learning Style?

Another great post on the blog of Dr. Eide, this time covering math skill variations between Anglophones and Chinese speaking students. Essentially they are seeing strong math performance and unique neural activation with the Chinese students. There is a pretty good explanation of why this is along with suggestions of how we could alter math teaching to maximize this highly conceptual and automatized style of mathematics.

The post is certainly worth a read CLICK HERE