Math class needs a makeover...
Kim Lightle at MSP2 has forwarded a great video talk by math teacher Dan Meyer about overcoming systemic approaches to teaching that prevent learning by students. It's an eleven-minute video - take a look! http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.html
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Dan Meyer asks, "How can we design the ideal learning experience for students?" As a part-time Googler, a provocative blogger and a full-time high-school math teacher, his perspective on curriculum design, teacher education and teacher retention is informed by tech trends and online discourse as much as front-line experience with students.
Meyer has spun off his enlightening message - that teachers "be less helpful" and push their students to formulate the steps to solve math problems - into a nationwide tour-of-duty on the speaking circuit.
"I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it but is forced by law to buy it."
(Thanks, Kim!)