Monday, May 24, 2010

from Dan Meyer's Ted TV session

This is reposted from Dan Meyer's Ted TV session. Dan is a high-school math teacher.

Favorite Quote: "Math is the vocabulary of your own intuition"

Shaping neural pathways, getting students to interact with the information, and having them ask the questions of what is needed to solve the problems. Linear modeling..Having the students create the steps through discussion. They need to be involved in the formulation of the problem. Use real life video to create the question. Filling a water tank slowly. The students need to want to know how long they are going to watch the tank fill up. Students buy in to the question. Let students converse about problems. The tools (video cell phone) free from license problems. Use a self made video that requires the students to discuss the problem. Math makes sense of the world. We need to make more patient problem solvers.

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