Comments on: Teaching WCYDWT: Misconceptions

By: My Idea Journal « Quantum Progress

My Idea Journal « Quantum Progress — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:50:08 +0000

[…] 12, 2010 tags: technology, WCYDWT by quantumprogress When I read Dan Meyer’s post on Teaching WCYDWT about how he takes cool ideas and turns them into awesome lessons, I was amazed. An idea […]

By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » The Kannapolis Sessions

dy/dan » Blog Archive » The Kannapolis Sessions — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:56:30 +0000

[…] misconceptions about my own WCYDWT workflow sooner. Unless you correct them explicitly, your workshop participants will assume you do all the […]

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:08:40 +0000

Wow.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:09:24 +0000

Hey, I was inspired by the ‘imposter’ idea. I also included a video that associates the idea. I don’t know if you ever want to use it. The video and my idea of how to use the lesson is here:
http://sites.google.com/a/grccs.ca/mr-weidman/class-notes-1/math10c-notes/linear-relations

Thanks for inspiring me to be a better teacher.

By: jg

jg — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:19:55 +0000

That’s a good start – thanks so much!

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:58:29 +0000

Reckon this is as good as I can do for you.

By: jg

jg — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:37:50 +0000

…so… can we get the file? :)

By: Brendan Murphy

Brendan Murphy — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:54:41 +0000

This is gold. The best post yet.

By: Maria Droujkova

Maria Droujkova — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:19:31 +0000

I was going to ask you how you could stand this part: “Most of my teaching strays only four or five degrees from the path beaten by my textbooks.” Then I realized you can’t: “At the end of every year I’ve worked at this school, I’ve either been laid off or I’ve quit, which means that no one really believes I’m leaving now. I was offered a doctoral fellowship at Stanford starting next fall, lasting the better part of a decade, and emphasizing “curriculum design and teacher education.” If I’ve made my motivations for teaching and blogging clear at all these last few years, you’ll understand this wasn’t an offer I could turn down.”

Congratulations on the doctorate! I am so happy for you and the future of teacher education!

As for you missing teaching – consider leading a math club, a couple of hours a week, just WCYDWT work and nothing else, with kids and families who really want to be there. The energy it gives you is tremendous.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:40:59 +0000

Glad you’re backing up those hard drives! Your ideas will inspire maths teachers and students for generations to come.

As an ex maths teacher married to a a Management consultant with a Masters in Math Modelling we can sit round the dining table with our 4 kids and ask WCYDWT questions from how many atoms are there in the universe to what does a further 10% off in a 50% sale really mean?

I’ve just launched a blog to help parents support their kids maths, and am trying to think of ways in which non specialist but eager parents who themselves are a product of plug the numbers into the formula, can use WCYDWT ideas to get their kids excited about maths. Any thoughts?