Sunday, April 18, 2010

dan meyer rocks

TEDxNYED - Dan Meyer - 03/06/10



math text books - you can pass the class without knowing any physics, but just how to decode a text book

5 symptoms you're doing math reasoning wrong in school:











more on his:
impatience with irresolution
visual... which section is the steepest (has 2 good answers)
questions... what does steepness mean
structure...

what matters to you is such an underrepresented question in math ....

he said this... "because of my inexperience... i teach kids that are remedial.."  well ... craziness

what math teachers should do in the classroom:


math makes sense of the world.
math is the vocabulary for your own intuition.

cool that we get to read these comments as well... what a lucky time in which we live..
don't miss it.
don't blink.

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