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Rick Garlikov
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Rick Garlikov writes garlikov, a personal blog at garlikov.com about philosophy and math. Since 2007, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Rick Garlikov's Socratic-method lessons, such as teaching binary to third graders, which are used to illustrate teaching numbers and object representations. Other links are to unrelated essays.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Birmingham Alabama Photographer and Philosopher Rick Garlikov's Irondale Alabama Photography Studio
Most-linked posts?
- The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling12 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2007-08-28
What Hacker News says?
I wonder what a field guide to the old internet would look like. Here are some things I might include if I was writing such a guide: All-time top stories on reddit in 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060415194256/http://reddit.com... reddit was originally a bit of a niche site for a tech audience, kinda like Hacker News. However, techies used over-represented on the internet anyways. "The internet used to be a lo…
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on “Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment”Submitted The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling as a story · 253 points
HN discussionI can only speak for myself but I personally find jobs like that to be very stressful. Every review period a coin flip. Periodic severe swings in work output expectations because the thing you thought wasn’t important is now on some executives quarterly goals. Etc. Spending 40 hours a week doing effectively nothing but pushing a rock up a hill can be exhausting. This is a phenomenon that exists outside of my single…
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on “Why I left Google: work-life balance”Submitted Socratic method to teaching by asking as a story · 211 points
HN discussionI believe it was this article: http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html One of the shining ideas in this lesson is the difference between an object and its representation, a nail which I think the author hits squarely on the head.
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on “Math for eight-year-olds: graph theory for kids”Submitted Teaching binary to 3rd Graders using the Socratic method as a story · 195 points
HN discussionA slight variation that I read years ago using only the socratic method (the teacher only asked probing questions) to teach third graders binary arithmetic. Interesting how he weaved aliens into it. http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html Edit: If I'd read to the bottom - I would have seen the author also references the above post.
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on “How I Taught Third Graders Binary Numbers”Submitted The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling as a story · 115 points
HN discussionA classical education is more about technique than material or school. The standard education model is that students are told what is true and what is not, and then they need to regurgitate what they've been told. The classical approach is for a student to try to understand the material themselves, then interact with a teacher and fellow classmates through a discussion format based on the Socratic method to develop…
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on “Posterous: I went to etc., can I still work for you?”Submitted The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling as a story · 67 points
HN discussionWhat really bothers me about this article is that at no point are there actually any eight year-olds. It's one thing to say "An eight year-old could understand this", and another to have a loose transcript of an actual conversation, à la "Explaining REST to my Wife" ( http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife ) or "The Socratic Method", where the author teaches binary to third graders ( http://www.garlikov.com/Soc…
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on “Explaining Functional Programming to Eight-Year-Olds”Submitted Using the Socratic Method to teach binary arithmetic as a story · 7 points
HN discussionMy favorite example is this one, in which a man tries to teach the binary number system to third graders http://www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html The point is he focuses on challenging their understanding of numbers vs representations of numbers, despite the fact that they thought they mastered simple counting in first grade. They come away from this not with a mastery of binary arithmetic but with a better understandi…
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on “2+2=What? Parents rail against Common Core math”Submitted The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Socratic Method as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm going to teach binary math to third graders tomorrow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fighting for the Higher Self as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Concept and Teaching of Place-Value in Math as a story · 1 points
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