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Dan Meyer: Math resource

Module by: Bridget Nash. E-mail the author

Summary: Dan Meyer is a passionate Math educator who write a detailed blog on relevant resources and lesson plans which will excite learners with real world Math exerises.

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Dan Meyer

http://blog.mrmeyer.com/

  • Dan Meyer is a passionate maths teacher, who has brought his interests in graphic design, filmmaking, motion graphics, and infographics into his teaching
  • He teaches and he blogs
  • He says “If we really believe that mathematical reasoning undergirds Everything, then we need to keep learning about Everything”

About the website

  • Dan keeps a blog of proposed maths activities and exercises, and discussion results around their use in the comments section after the exercises
  • At the top of the page is WCYDWT - what can you do with this - a design method for creating powerful, technologically supported and rich problem-solving experiences in maths classrooms (explanation taken from http://www.stevehargadon.com/2010/08/tonight-dan-meyer-and-his-vision-for.html
  • On the right of the page under “My Curriculum” are two categories: algebra and geometry, which are resources that you can integrate into a curriculum, divided into weekly lessons with PowerPoint presentations, pdf's and handouts
  • He has links to other useful and interesting blogs under “Links / Blogroll” also on the right
  • He has an archive of all the maths activities he has posted to his blog, under “Archives”

Teacher comments

  • Learning ought to spark the imagination, which is the process that occurs when our natural tendency to be creative is tapped, no matter what the subject. That’s why your water tank demonstration works: because it presents a situation and lets students’ curiosity lead them toward imaginative questions. In the end, a learning experience is successful if students get curious. Curiosity sparks imagination, which leads to creative thinking, not “teaching moments.” That’s what makes learning exciting. Antonia Malchik, http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=6870
  • If you hate sitting through bulleted powerpoint presentations, your kids probably will too. And if you loved having the opportunity to get some real choice in your learning and having dynamic conversations and being able to just play around with some new tool, then your kids also will too. Dan Callahan, http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=6870

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