Javier Garcia

The Gate, The Voice, & The Mirror

Javier Garcia

The Gate, The Voice, & The Mirror

The Gate

Teaching or Sorting?

What students can do with the assistance of others is more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone.

-Vygotsky

Mathematics: Making impossible things possible

• Negative Numbers• Rational Numbers• Imaginary Numbers• Non-Euclidean Geometry-”…out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.” –Janos Bolyai

Lily TomlinI always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that….

then I realized, I am somebody.

The Voice

The Mirror

Who are we really talking about?

• They can’t…• They won’t…• They’ll never understand…

• When you look at your students, do you recognize your own reflection?

Nick

Airplane problem

Thank you