OUR PROSPECTIVE MATHEMATIC TEACHERS ARE NOT CRITICAL THINKERS YET

Are Our Teachers Learning?

In the last thirty years, drastic changes occurred in almost all domains of science and technology. In particular, the progress in information and communication technologies now allows a virtually cost-less access to huge amounts of data. As a consequence, one of the main concerns of the (traditional) teaching – information providing – is sharply losing importance. Consequently, students tend t...

Neurotic Individuals are not Creative Thinkers.

In the September 2015 issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Perkins et al. [1] proposed that the personality trait of neuroticism stems from individual differences in neural processes that govern the nature of self-generated thought (SGT). They also asserted that higher levels of neuroticism are associated with higher levels of creativity, especially intellectual creativity and creative proble...

cell phones are not our friend’s

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The Effect of Students’ Gender on Preschool Teachers’ Mathematic Interactions

IQ tests are not for machines, yet

Article history: Received 29 September 2011 Received in revised form 3 November 2011 Accepted 22 December 2011 Available online xxxx Complex, but specific, tasks—such as chess or Jeopardy!—are popularly seen as milestones for artificial intelligence (AI). However, they are not appropriate for evaluating the intelligence of machines or measuring the progress in AI. Aware of this delusion, Detter...