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The amazing thing about [[Braid]] is you can immediately and intuitively understand and appreciate it. No need to read a manual or look at statistics or whatever. You just play -- explore.
 
The amazing thing about [[Braid]] is you can immediately and intuitively understand and appreciate it. No need to read a manual or look at statistics or whatever. You just play -- explore.
  
How can I bring ''this Braidness'' into teaching math? One thing is that once you "load" a problem into working memory, you can tinker with it like a game. It's just the translation from written to cognitive medium -- the "downloading into your brain" process -- that takes verbal effort. Can we present the intimate "cognitive medium stuff" as a computer simulation?
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How can I bring ''this Braidness'' into teaching math? One challenge is that [[tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory]].
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Another challenge: [[Different mental representations of mathematical objects is a blocker for an exploratory medium of math]].
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Many of these problems don't apply to [[broad augmentation]]. But of course, if we limit ourselves to broad augmentation, we miss out on some of the magic contained in Braid.
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Looking at instructive concrete examples may be one way to bring a "Braidness" into math.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
  
 
* [[Duolingo for math]]
 
* [[Duolingo for math]]
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* [[Thinking Mathematics]]
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Latest revision as of 00:43, 17 July 2021

The amazing thing about Braid is you can immediately and intuitively understand and appreciate it. No need to read a manual or look at statistics or whatever. You just play -- explore.

How can I bring this Braidness into teaching math? One challenge is that tinkering in math requires loading the situation into working memory.

Another challenge: Different mental representations of mathematical objects is a blocker for an exploratory medium of math.

Many of these problems don't apply to broad augmentation. But of course, if we limit ourselves to broad augmentation, we miss out on some of the magic contained in Braid.

Looking at instructive concrete examples may be one way to bring a "Braidness" into math.

See also

What links here