Consult your text, pages 383-399, for project ideas. You must clear your choice of topics with me and have a topic selected by spring break. I will try to challenge you with interesting and relevant problems. Thinking is a dynamic process. Some of you may have had mathematics courses that were based on the transmission, or absorption, view of teaching and learning.
Teaching consists of transmitting sets of established facts, skills, and concepts to students.
I do not accept this view. I am a constructivist. Constructivists believe that knowledge is actively created or invented by the person, not passively received from the environment. No one true reality exists, only individual interpretations of the world. These interpretations are shaped by experience and social interactions.