Comments on: My TEDxNYED Session — Math Curriculum Makeover /2010/my-tedxnyed-session-%e2%80%94-math-curriculum-makeover/ less helpful Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:36:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Shorter is better: is shorter better? | emergent math /2010/my-tedxnyed-session-%e2%80%94-math-curriculum-makeover/#comment-705102 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:36:44 +0000 /?p=6548#comment-705102 […] yet probably ultimately good, in being forced to make concise entry events. I generally adhere to Dan’s “ask the shortest question possible” mindset (despite me being terribly long-winded).  I’ll post both versions here for […]

]]> By: Jennifer Smith /2010/my-tedxnyed-session-%e2%80%94-math-curriculum-makeover/#comment-394764 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:23:35 +0000 /?p=6548#comment-394764 Thanks for this talk – I just saw it yesterday. My oldest daughter is in 3rd grade, recently finished division tables and the day before, she had opened her box of Thin Mints. Using your method, I asked her “How many days of thin mints do you have there?” – “I don’t know… 3 I think,” she said. I baited her, ” Well if you don’t know for sure, then you won’t know if I eat any of your thin mints, will ya?”

She really did not want to sit down and do the math and my threatening to eat her cookies just made her all the madder. But eventually I showed her using her basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, we figured out that she about about 10 days of cookies if she ate 2 per day.

Then she came at me with her division test, “Look mom I got a 98%,” and I said, “If you can’t use that information to figure out how many days worth of cookies you have, then it’s no good to ya. ”

Thanks for showing me the gap and how to bridge it at home at least, if not at school. PLEASE continue your work :-)

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]]> By: David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts » On being an agent of change /2010/my-tedxnyed-session-%e2%80%94-math-curriculum-makeover/#comment-272773 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 04:23:41 +0000 /?p=6548#comment-272773 […] coming from different countries. My next pro-d session is going to address this. We will watch Dan Myer’s Math class needs a makeover and discuss questioning textbook questions across the […]

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]]> By: Gerard Franck /2010/my-tedxnyed-session-%e2%80%94-math-curriculum-makeover/#comment-270071 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:28:52 +0000 /?p=6548#comment-270071 “the math serves the conversation”…not the other way around. Wow!
Should be math teachers’ mantra!

]]> By: David Hampson /2010/my-tedxnyed-session-%e2%80%94-math-curriculum-makeover/#comment-267865 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:30:23 +0000 /?p=6548#comment-267865 Well, @ashvyn, this was my former roommate’s experience, from the late 70’s…. But the American attitude where expert means unqualified is uniquely American, I think.

@kevin, I would suggest less Kings and Queens, and bring up more of everyday life. I remember my speech class, I had to give a group talk about the 60’s. People slept, until I did my part on every day life. When I mentioned that no one had a video game system at home, everyone immediately woke up, and these 18 year old seemed genuinely concerned about these kids. Only 1 TV per house, and only 4 channels, if lucky! This got THEM asking the questions.

–Dave

]]> By: Kevin Stuart /2010/my-tedxnyed-session-%e2%80%94-math-curriculum-makeover/#comment-267825 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:47:30 +0000 /?p=6548#comment-267825 Hey Dan,

Any chance I can get professional development units for watching your video? (HaHa) Just a thought: maybe you ought to start thinking about mentoring others. You’re really great and you have much to contribute!!

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