Comments on: Great Application Problems â€” A Rubric

By: Things That Improved My Teaching This Month « shifting phases

Things That Improved My Teaching This Month « shifting phases — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:40:06 +0000

[…] lead where I wanted to go, I had to develop some lesson plans in a hurry.Â This rubric for application problems helped a lot.Â Developed by Dan Meyer for math classes, it helps students find the meaning behind […]

By: The bus stops here | Mr Duncan's Blog

The bus stops here | Mr Duncan's Blog — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:58:08 +0000

[…] other online reading, I discovered the work of Dan Myer through the TED Talk Videos. His post on developing good problems provided me with a good starting […]

By: The Passion of the WCYDWT or: Mistakes I Have Made, and Vindication by the Neuroscience of Curiosity « Sarcasymptote

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:24:29 +0000

[…] where I hyped that and the use of blogs- nothing you haven’t seen Dan Meyer talk about or write about already, just a bit more crass and sarcastic. Then, I sat in on a panel for all of the new […]

By: Debby Smith

Debby Smith — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:30:18 +0000

@blaw0013: Good point, there is much overlap between the two. This rubric is not so much a measure of the design of the problem, but of that plus the playing out of the process of wrestling with the (well-designed) problem. As Dan took us through this process, I was continually impressed with the quality and impact of his questioning. Note all the “asks” in the middle portion.

The power of quality questions–from the driving opening question, to helping students craft good questions, to asking challenging questions throughout, to ending with key summary questions–is common across the curriculum.

By: blaw0013

blaw0013 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:52:34 +0000

It is very interesting the confluence of what I would name curriculum and pedagogy that define a “great application problem.” It seems lots of conversation about correcting the woes of math education are about one or the other, hugely ignoring the interrelatedness of the two.

By: Chris Riesbeck

Chris Riesbeck — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:52:50 +0000

In the beginning, for WCYDWT developers, and at the end, for students, ask “what else could you do with this?” What will/have we learned about solving what other problems?