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Texan Section
This page is devoted to the teaching method developed and practiced by Robert Lee Moore at the University of Texas from 1920-1969. This method is now known as the "Moore method" or the "Texas method" and the following links are in one way or another related to Dr. Moore and his methods. At least two colleagues of Moore's, Hubert Stanley Wall and Hyman Joseph Ettlinger, worked closely with Moore during much of this period.
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Anecdotes
-- These Texan "Believe It or Not!" stories were related to me
over the years and concern events on the 3rd floor of Benedict Hall at
UT during Moore's reign. |
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A Gentler Discovery Method
-- An article I wrote about the method that appeared in College Teaching.
See many more articles at the link below to the Legacy of R. L. Moore Project. |
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Calculus, A Discovery Approach
Information on an NSF grant to develop a Moore-style Calculus text. |
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The Journal of Discovery Learning in Mathematics is devoted to publishing materials that adhere to
discovery-based, inquiry-based, Montessori, modified-Moore, Socratic, and student-centered pedagogies. |
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Mathematical
Descendants Project -- This is a list of Moore's, Wall's, and Ettlinger's
descendants. The "Number of Descendants" buttons
are still inoperable until futher coding is done. |
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Legacy of R. L. Moore
Project -- The best site to learn about Moore method teaching, as well as
the history, and life of R. L. Moore. |
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My personal connection to the Texas Method. |
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Panel
Sessions on the Moore Method at the 1999, 2001, and 2003 Joint Meetings of AMS and MAA |
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R. L. Moore's Gravesite A picture of my father and me at R. L. Moore's gravesite. Is this morbid? |