Comments on: The Red Dot /2007/the-red-dot/ less helpful Tue, 17 May 2011 18:50:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: In the Driver’s Seat: Information Design « mathbynaomi /2007/the-red-dot/#comment-277842 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:24:07 +0000 /?p=440#comment-277842 […] closing up a series of lessons on data representation, I stumbled upon the mystery of the Red Dot featured in Dan Meyer’s […]

]]> By: Speak Up Blog » Does science-learning get less “fun” as students age? Teachers’ most-used strategy is “hands on” for elementary students, but “lecture” for high school. /2007/the-red-dot/#comment-221220 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:57:38 +0000 /?p=440#comment-221220 […] from TV shows, photos Meyer finds, photos Meyer takes, video Meyer captures, iPhone applications, current events, commercials. Students take on the challenges, learning the math they’ll come to use as science […]

]]> By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » What We Want Isn’t Out There /2007/the-red-dot/#comment-217665 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:56:24 +0000 /?p=440#comment-217665 […] sentence there: TV shows, photos I find, photos I take, video I capture, iPhone applications, current events, commercials, and, if I must, my assigned […]

]]> By: trevor da Poker guy /2007/the-red-dot/#comment-103589 Tue, 27 May 2008 01:00:11 +0000 /?p=440#comment-103589 I have heard this story a few times before and even heard about the aforementioned graph, but this is the first time I have actually seen it.

Seeing is believing, 15 points deviation, winning a lotto 6 times consecutively — well said… but,… but you didn’t give us the punch line.

And its the punch line that will keep the students spell-bound just a little while longer…

Kawanakee ( Montreal ) who is the jurisdiction that the game was played from ( not Costa Rica ), was forced to do a review of this particular licensee ( ha ha, as if they, the Kawanakee Indians really wanted to go thru this highly visible auditing process, right ? )

Anyway, they slapped absolute with a fine that ran into the millions ( peanuts at the time for absolute ). When you say 15 points deviation from the mean, thats kind of hard to understand, but when we see the graph and realize the absolute impossibility of the game play of that individual, then people voted with their money.

Money voted to the tune of nearly a hundred million or more, to simply walk away!

What a math class !

]]> By: dan /2007/the-red-dot/#comment-29458 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:05:28 +0000 /?p=440#comment-29458 Great resource, thanks!

]]> By: Dee /2007/the-red-dot/#comment-29438 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:02:09 +0000 /?p=440#comment-29438 Dan, David Warlick has a page od links to raw data sites that mgiht be a good resource. You can find it here:
http://landmark-project.com/page.php?stamp=&pn=4&psn=&cat=22

]]> By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » How I Met Your Mother /2007/the-red-dot/#comment-28543 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:42:49 +0000 /?p=440#comment-28543 […] A is, of course, The Red Dot (and how I taught it), a small blurb snatched out of an RSS feed and built into an hour of […]

]]> By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Teaching the Red Dot Right /2007/the-red-dot/#comment-28414 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:29:49 +0000 /?p=440#comment-28414 […] positive I could give that fable of greed, conspiracy, technology, and poker to a student teacher, ink still wet off her […]

]]> By: Hemant Mehta /2007/the-red-dot/#comment-27776 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:46:24 +0000 /?p=440#comment-27776 I showed this to all my classes today.

They were thrilled.

I know this because they were actually listening the entire time I talked about this :)

Thanks again!

]]> By: Michael Josem /2007/the-red-dot/#comment-27591 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:25:43 +0000 /?p=440#comment-27591 Dan,

I’ve just tried emailing you, but it was returned saying that your mailbox is full.

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