Author Archives: Allan Tarp

Math Ed and Research 2018

MathEdResearch_2018

A collection of articles about Mathematics Education written in 2018

  1. Posters at the 2018 Swedish Biennial stand
  2. Migrants Master Many by Re-counting in Block- & Per-numbers – Short
  3. Migrants Master Many by Re-counting in Block- & Per-numbers – Long
  4. Math: Useful Abstractions or an Undiagnosed Compulsory Cure? Conflicting Theories in Mathematics Education – Short
  5. Math: Useful Abstractions or an Undiagnosed Compulsory Cure? Conflicting Theories in Mathematics Education – Long
  6. A STEM-based Mathematics without Addition – Short
  7. A STEM-based Mathematics without Addition – Long
  8. Cure Math Dislike with 1 Cup & 5 Sticks: New Meanings to Numbers, Counting, Operations & Fractions – Short
  9. Curing Math Dislike with 1 Cup & 5 Sticks: New Meanings to Numbers, Counting, Operations & Fractions – Long
  10. Good Math & Goofy Math, which is Truer? – Short
  11. Good Math & Goofy Math, which is Truer? – Long
  12. A Core STEM Curriculum for Young Migrants – Short
  13. A Core STEM Curriculum for Young Migrants – Long
  14. Fifty Years of Ineffective Math Education Research, Why? Oops, Wrong Numbers, Sorry
  15. Rethinking Line-Number Arithmetic as Block-Number Algebra
  16. A Count-before-Adding Curriculum for Preschool and Migrants
  17. Difference-research Saving Dropout Ryan with a TI-82 Calculator
  18. Conflicting Theories Help Teachers Improve Mathematics Education
  19. Addition-free Core STEM Curriculum for Late Learners along the Silk Road
  20. Good, Bad & Evil Mathematics – Sociological Imagination in Math Education
  21. Remedial Math MicroCurricula – When Stuck in a Traditional Curriculum
  22. Mastering Many by Counting, Re-counting and Double-counting before Adding On-top and Next-to
  23. Good, Bad & Evil Mathematics – Tales of Totals, Numbers & Fractions
  24. Good, Bad & Evil Mathematics – Tales of Totals, Numbers & Fractions, PPP
  25. The Simplicity of Math reveals a Core Curriculum
  26. The Simplicity of Math reveals a Core Curriculum, PPP
  27. Addition Free Migrant-Math Rooted in STEM Re-Counting Formulas
  28. A Twin Curriculum Since Contemporary Mathematics May Block the Road to its Educational Goal, Mastery of Many
  29. Counting Before Adding, a PPP for the Article on a Twin Curriculum
  30. A New Curriculum – But for Which of the 3×2 Kinds of Mathematics Education

Journal of Mathematics Education 11:1

Mastering Many by Counting, Re-counting and Double-counting before Adding On-top and Next-to

Allan Tarp, The MATHeCADEMY.net, Denmark, March 2018

Observing the quantitative competence children bring to school, and by using difference-research searching for differences making a difference, we discover a different ‘Many-matics’. Here digits are icons with as many sticks as they represent. Operations are icons also, used when bundle-counting produces two-dimensional block-numbers, ready to be re-counted in the same unit to remove or create overloads to make operations easier; or in a new unit, later called proportionality; or to and from tens rooting multiplication tables and solving equations. Here double-counting in two units creates per-numbers becoming fractions with like units; both being, not numbers, but operators needing numbers to become numbers. Addition here occurs both on-top rooting proportionality, and next-to rooting integral calculus by adding areas; and here trigonometry precedes geometry.

Math Ed and Research 2017

MathEdResearch_2017
A collection of articles about Mathematics Education written in 2017

  1. Does Europe really need Compulsory School Classes?
  2. Mathematics, Banality or Evilness
  3. CupCounting and Calculus in Early Childhood Education
  4. Fifty Years of Research without Improving Mathematics Education, Why?
  5. A 1year pre-engineer course for Young migrants, a job for critical or civilized math education
  6. Online Teacher Training for Curing Math Dislike: Cup&Re-Counting & Multiplication Before Addition
  7. Debate on how to improve mathematics education
  8. Poster: MigrantMath as CupCounting & PreSchool Calculus
  9. A Heidegger View on How to Improve Mathematics Education
  10. Count and Multiply Before You Add: Proportionality and Calculus for Early Childhood and Migrants
  11. Proposals for the Mathematics Biennale 2018
  12. The Simplicity of Mathematics Designing a STEM-based Core Math Curriculum for Outsiders and Migrants
  13. The Simplicity of Mathematics Designing a STEM-based Core Mathematics Curriculum for Young Male Migrants
  14. Math Competenc(i)es – Catholic or Protestant?
  15. The ‘KomMod Report’, a Counter Report to the Ministry’s Competence Report
  16. Twelve Proposals for 1day Skype Seminars
  17. Difference-Research Powering PISA Performance: Count & Multiply before You Add
  18. Reflections from the CTRAS 2017 Conference in China
  19. Sixteen Proposals for the 8th ICMI-East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education
  20. Plenary PowerPointPresentation at the CTRAS 2017 July Conference in China
  21. Math Dislike
  22. Migrant Math, core math for late beginners

MADIF papers 2000-2020

MADIF papers 2000-2020

Content
Introduction
Killer-Equations, Job Threats and Syntax Errors
Student-mathematics versus teacher-Metamatics
Mathematism and the Irrelevance of the Research Industry
The 12 Math-Blunders of Killer-Mathematics
Mathematics: Grounded Enlightenment – or Pastoral Salvation
Discourse Protection in Mathematics Education
Post-Constructivism
Golden Learning Opportunities in Preschool
Calculators and IconCounting and CupWriting in PreSchool and in Special Needs Education
Grounding Conflicting Theories
The Simplicity of Mathematics Designing a STEM-based Core Mathematics Curriculum for Young
Male Migrants
Math Competenc(i)es – Catholic or Protestant?
Sustainable Adaption to Quantity: From Number Sense to Many Sense
Per-numbers connect Fractions and Proportionality and Calculus and Equations
Sustainable Adaption to Double-Quantity: From Pre-calculus to Per-number Calculations
A Lyotardian Dissension to the Early Childhood Consensus on Numbers and Operations
Salon des Refusés, a Way to Assure Quality in the Peer Review Caused Replication Crisis?

 

Posters 2018 Biennale in Sweden

Math Biennale 2018 Posters

Posters at the 2018 Swedish Biennale Stand
●Math Dislike Cured by 1 Cup & 5 Sticks
●Migrant Math for STEM Teachers/Engineers
INTRO: Saving the Princess with BundleNumbers
LEFT
Good Math: MANY-Math, Tales about Totals
Bad Math: SET-Math, Tales about LineNumbers
Evil MATH: Fraction-Math, Tales about Operators
Good Math: Icons, Bundling, ReCounting & PerNumbers
Core Math from Childhood
Grand Theory in Math Ed Research & Difference Research
MIDDLE
Math Dislike CURED by 1 Cup & 5 Sticks
Improving Schools in Sweden
Migrant-Math making migrants STEM-Teachers or Engineers
Count before you Add
Kids own Math
Activities
RIGHT
1Year online CATS-Course
1Week STEM-Course
Is Math True always or sometimes? Is Mathematics well-defined?
PYRAMIDeDUCATION & Material
Beware of Institutions & Teachers & Research & Forced Classes
Good & Bad & Evil Education
Rejected Research Papers
Research Paper: The Simplicity of Mathematics Designing a STEM-based Core Mathematics Curriculum for Young Male Migrants
(STEM: Science + Technology + Engineering + Mathematics)

 

DifferenceResearch Powers PISA

Difference-Research Powering PISA Performance: Count and Multiply before you Add

To explain 50 years of low performing mathematics education research, this paper asks: Can mathematics and education and research be different? Difference-research searching traditions for hidden differences provides an answer: Traditional mathematics, defining concepts from above as examples of abstractions, can be different by instead defining concepts from below as abstractions from examples. Also, traditional line-organized office-directed education can be different by uncovering and developing the individual talent through daily lessons in self-chosen half-year blocks. And traditional research extending its volume of references can be different, either as grounded theory abstracting categories from observations, or as difference-research uncovering hidden differences to see if they make a difference. One such difference is: To improve PISA performance, Count and Multiply before you Add.

Difference-Research Powering PISA Performance, a 31 page article

Dalian Talk 2017, a 30 minutes PowerPoint keynote Presentation of the above article

 

STEM-based Core Math for Migrants

The Simplicity of Mathematics Designing a STEM-based Core Math Curriculum for Outsiders and Migrants

Swedish educational shortages challenge traditional mathematics education offered to migrants. Mathematics could be taught in its simplicity instead of as ‘meta-matsim’, a mixture of ‘meta-matics’ defining concepts as examples of inside abstractions instead of as abstractions from outside examples; and ‘mathe-matism’ true inside classrooms but seldom outside as when adding numbers without units. Rebuilt as ‘many-matics’ from its outside root, Many, mathematics unveils its simplicity to be taught in a STEM context at a 2year course providing a background as pre-teacher or pre-engineer for young male migrants wanting to help rebuilding their original countries.

Core STEM Math

Migrant Math in twenty 1page Sheets

MigrantMath

Contents

  1. From Sticks to Icons
  2. Counting-sequences in Icons
  3. CupCount in Icons
  4. CupCount with Dices
  5. ReCount in the Same Unit
  6. ReCount in a New Unit
  7. ReCount in BundleBundles
  8. ReCount in Tens on Squared Paper or an Abacus
  9. ReCount from Tens
  10. ReCount Large Numbers in Tens
  11. DoubleCount with PerNumbers
  12. DoubleCount with Fractions and Percentages
  13. ReCount PerNumbers, Fractions
  14. Add OnTop
  15. Reversed Adding OnTop
  16. Add NextTo
  17. Reversed Adding NextTo
  18. Add Tens
  19. Reversed Adding Tens
  20. Recounting Solves Equations