Speakers Dan Meyer: Educator
Dan Meyer is exploring the way we teach teachers to teach kids.
Why you should listen to him:
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."Dan Meyer
Quotes by Dan Meyer
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“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.”
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“Students need to decide, ‘All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?’ — such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.”
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“We’re no longer intimidated by math, because we’re slowly redefining what math is.”
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Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
- 11:39 Posted: May 2010
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Conferences
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- TEDxNYED