John Mighton

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  The High Cost of Intellectual Poverty: How Myths About Intelligence and Talent are Slowing Human Progress. (poster) 2010 Hagey Lecture, University of Waterloo, November 30, 2010.

Books

• The Myth of Ability: Nurturing Mathematical Talent in Every Child (2003). (Google Books excerpt)

• The End of Ignorance: Multiplying Our Human Potential (2007). (Google Books excerpt)

Video

• End of Ignorance. Interview on TVO show Allan Gregg, December 2007.

• Discovering Dyscalculia: The math learning disability. Panel on TVO show Your Voice, January 2010.

• The Ubiquitous Bell Curve: What it does and doesn't tell us. Perimeter Institute talk June 2010.

• Trent University Convocation address. Trent University June 2010.

• media articles about Jump Math or John Mighton from the JUMP site.

Related

• Applications and misapplications of cognitive psychology to mathematics education by Herb Simon et al, 2000.

• The Expert Mind Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well", by Philip E. Ross July 24, 2006, Scientific American

Paul Kates
Mathematics Faculty CTE Liaison
pkates@uwaterloo.ca, x37047
Last modification date: Tue Dec 07 03:54:15 2010.