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2025
1 article
11 Dec
2025
The Golden Bead Cube Weighs One Kilogram
Bruner described enactive, iconic, and symbolic forms of representation; Montessori materials make a useful, but not historically direct, comparison. Physical materials can support particular learning tasks, while evidence does not justify treating a touchscreen as a universal developmental failure.
education
pedagogy
montessori
2023
1 article
13 Nov
2023
Non-Commutative Pre-Schoolers
Socks before shoes is a useful analogy for order-dependent operations. It does not explain quantum uncertainty, and infant sequence memory is not evidence of group-theoretic understanding. The shared structure is narrower: changing operation order can change, or prevent, the result.
algebra
quantum-mechanics
group-theory