Method of Moore

The method of Moore is a method of Enseignement of mathematics named according to Robert Lee Moore which used a more extreme version of the modern version. Teaching is built mainly on the choices of the pupils. Instead of using schoolbooks, the pupils see themselves giving a list of Définition S and Théorème S which they must prove or to present in class.

The partisans of this method have the feeling which it wakes up in the pupil a deep comprehension of constructions and fundamental results that a simple listening would not be enough. Others support that this method cannot cover the whole of a program which traditional teaching covers.

Quotations

I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I make, I include/understand. (Chinese Proverb favorite of Moore, quoted in I want to Be has mathematician: year autobiography. Springer-Verlag, 1985).

That student is taught the best who is told the least. Moore.

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