Math class needs a makeover - Dan Meyer

[@michaelnichols7723]

Dan was my highschool math teacher!! By far my favorite teacher at San Lorenzo Valley High!!

[@AllyEdmark]

This has changed the way I approach all lesson planning. Relevance is the bottom line. Start with the problem, not the solution.

[@Maverick5588]

this really sounds great out of my left speaker.

[@tpsu129]

Maybe the teacher is a Leftist.

[@Heavenira]

You've captured why I love math so much! Best of luck shaping the curriculum.

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

I work in human services. Probably the only really useful thing I learned in college was in a calculus class. The prof would give you 50% credit for just picking out the right approach to the problem even if you totally screwed up every single calculation after that. She did this deliberately in order to teach us that finding the right approach is half of solving the problem.

[@jyotiranjan7062]

I love that

[@HammertownWins]

I like that we see more people in all fields these days coming with the same message: WE GOTTA ADAPT AND ITS FUN :)

[@patrickgreiffenstein5554]

Absolutely amazing. I've always been so frustrated by math because I saw how fun it could be but I was so bad at the conventional methods of teaching and its lack of real application. I think you should be appointed to rework the math curriculum in the country, scrap all the old textbooks and start fresh.

[@NawidN]

It's a shame that being patient in your problem solving doesn't fit any modern education method schools have adopted. Schools simply will not wait for a student to catch up if they have yet to understand a given problem. When the schools can't be patient, it can't be expected of the students either. It is as simple as that.

[@stauffap]

Exactly. Universities don't have time for that either. It's still the case that you'll have to take an exam even if you know, that you won't pass. Instead of taking the exam when you're ready. Furthermore you'll have to predict a year in advance whether or not you'll be able to take the exam and be ready. That's completely ridiculous. Then somehow they want you to have one exam for half a year or even a full year, instead of breaking it up into smaller, but more frequent exams. And of course if you fail the exam they expect you to repeat the whole year yet again. They won't allow you to learn on your own even though you have all the material. How is any of this supposed to motivate or encourage people? It rather seems like they make it more difficult, than it has to be.

[@DirtyLifeStudio]

Depends on the schools. EL Education schools for example do a great job with valuing inquiry-based math education.

[@tarrynsnyman7406]

I love this approach I am certain that the implementation of this will lead to more students liking mathematics as they are involved in constructing their own knowledge and understanding of the question.

[@TerribleLotus]

God, I wish I had this kind of class in high school math. I still lack Math confidence decades later

[@ojoolabanji6756]

A good teacher and a good method. This would however not work for all math topics. So many factors are to be considered in choosing the best method for an instruction.

[@nat1XP]

Math class needs a makeover = TED talk by Dan Meyer No matter how much you like maths, it was a popular opinion in our class and still is in college how much it frustrates us that we don't feel we actually have improved in maths and reasoning, wanting a way to approach any type of problems we haven't tried before not just the similar weird, or vague/non applied questions. Yes it's good to practice similar techniques so when you do come across it you know where to start, but it's rare in real life outside the classroom that we even recognise things we can start to solve/are just at a lost and even apprehensive to start such a new sounding problem because it's different to our class work and therefore we don't have those skills. I personally enjoyed maths but expected it to be more interesting the more I learned at school, just a bunch of new formulas. You see more people enjoy their physics classes maths use, even those who didn't like maths. It's the relief we can think for ourselves after all instead of linking everything we do to the example. Good video.

[@YukiChannelShibaInu]

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[@krekk67899]

I wish you were my math teacher!

[@willday9647]

Yamada Leon

[@stevezes]

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