RE: Help needed: Usefulness of school knowledge for real life wri ting and science

From: Nate Schmolze (vygotsky@home.com)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 12:35:19 PDT


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At 12:10 PM 6/7/01, you wrote:

>In addition to G. Saxe's candy-selling children (Diane just offered that
>reference) there is some work on math and "real life" --- in an Education
>field called "realistic math" [at least I think that's the term]developed at
>the Freudenthal Institute (Dutch). I don't know if the focus here is more
>bringing out-of-school into school or In-school out of school. But that may
>be a chicken/egg thing anyway. I'll be on the lookout for more.
>
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