Introduces functions and strategies (heuristics) for students to generate and solve their own problems. HiMAP Module 7.
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Table of Contents:
SECTION 1: FROM SPECTATOR TO PARTICIPANT
The Reader's First Commitment
The Author's First Commitment
The Teacher's First Commitment
SECTION 2: BEGINNINGS: THE PROBLEM/SITUATION REVERBERATION
Introduction
Unhinging the Implicit
Bona Fide Situations
Unhinging the Explicit: From Problems to Situations and Back
Some Teaching Ideas
SECTION 3: MIDDLES: COMING UP WITH QUESTIONS
(My) Goodness: A Word of Caution
Co-Mingling: Questions/Observations/Conjectures
Embeddedness
Roughing It: Estimation and Approximation
Some Teaching Ideas
SECTION 4: MORE BEGINNINGS: TOWARD CHALLENGING THE GIVEN
Introduction
Understanding as Pumping the Prime
A Primal Switch of the Pump: Challenging the Given
Some Fine Points on Challenging the Given: Stages of the Process
Some Grosser Points: Inversions and Metaphors
Some Teaching Ideas
SECTION 5: ENDINGS
A Retrospective Account
A Whirlwind Application
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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