Jour 62

En ce jour de fête au Québec, j'entame un troisième mois de Quotidienneries. Je suis assez fier de mon assiduité. Pas de grandes choses dans ces miettes : du souvenir, que du futur souvenir.

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J'apprends la mort d'Albert Cossery. Son Mendiant et orgueilleux m'avait laissé un drôle de goût. Je m'étais promis d'essayer un autre de ses romans. Cet été, peut-être.

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Le service Amigo Express, le bed & breakfast du transport.

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Teaching Children to be Mathematicians vs. Teaching about Mathematics (Papert, 1972)
«Being a mathematician is no more definable as 'knowing' a set of mathematical facts than being a poet is definable as knowing a set of linguistic facts. Some modern math ed reformers will give this statement a too easy assent with the comment: 'Yes, they must understand, not merely know.' But this misses the capital point that being a mathematician, again like being a poet, or a composer or an engineer, means doing, rather than knowing or understanding. This essay is an attempt to explore some ways in which one might be able to put children in a better position to do mathematics rather than merely to learn about it.»