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| | Appelbaum, Peter: Eight Critical Points for Mathematics |
 | | In geometry we sometimes speak of "critical points" of a curve, and as I look back over my shifting pedagogy I can identify such points in the flow of my classroom life, points at which the flow has a sudden shift in acceleration toward a critical thinking classroom. |
 | | What follows is a list of eight critical points in the historical trace of my teaching/learning strategies, each of which invite considerations of how to enrich critical thinking in the teaching and learning of mathematics in schools. |
 | | My pedagogical starting point is not the individual critical thinking student, but the critical insight of individuals and groups in their various cultural, class, racial, historical, gendered, and other settings, in which diverse problems, hopes, dreams and fears become particular to individual students. |
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