This is Dan Mayer, he is a mathematics teacher and implements real world problems to his mathematics lessons. Very similar to the Young Mathematicians at Work program. When I saw this video for the first time it was inspiring. You see the reason behind this blog and it corresponding wiki is that I love to learn math, but I have trouble teaching math. To me it's very easy, to the rest of the world it can be the most dreadful subject in school. When I began teaching I naively thought all my students would learn like I learned. That thought was completely foolish and I quickly learned that not everyone likes math the way I do. Over the years of my career I have learned to make this subject more relateable for my student. I take inspiration from various medium and I hope Dan can inspire you like he did me:)
I really appreciate the renewed focus on math and other STEM subjects. We often lament the statistics that are used to describe our nation and that classify us as "behind the rest of the world" in these subjects. I think that if we have engaging but effective resources, such as these you are providing here, our students will be much better prepared in the future.
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome video! I wish I knew about Dan Meyer a lot sooner, I would have been applying his stuff to my own teaching.
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Patrick Moseley