Comments on: To My Amigos North Of The Border: /2010/to-my-amigos-north-of-the-border/ less helpful Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:43:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Gerry /2010/to-my-amigos-north-of-the-border/#comment-266865 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:43:15 +0000 /?p=7979#comment-266865 Add another request for those of us not even close to being local to these… east coast Canada as well, please! I mean, I know Newfoundland is probably out of the question but if you came as close as Nova Scotia I’d make the effort!

]]> By: @thescamdog /2010/to-my-amigos-north-of-the-border/#comment-265684 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:59:55 +0000 /?p=7979#comment-265684 I have been promoting this session when I talk to teachers. I expect that it will fill up quickly. Most I talk to are excited to hear that you are coming.

]]> By: David /2010/to-my-amigos-north-of-the-border/#comment-265076 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:44:28 +0000 /?p=7979#comment-265076 I agree with @Amanda, I’d love to have you come to Vancouver. I’m sure I can round up a couple of hundred Math teachers in BC who would love to participate in a workshop.

]]> By: Todd Hadden /2010/to-my-amigos-north-of-the-border/#comment-264945 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:25:35 +0000 /?p=7979#comment-264945 You know in Canada it is Day/Month/Year?
21/3/11 and 22/3/11

]]> By: How I’ve constructed my instructional style | Wisdom Begins with Wonder /2010/to-my-amigos-north-of-the-border/#comment-264924 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:51:26 +0000 /?p=7979#comment-264924 […] – I wouldn’t have known exactly how to describe this until I read dy/dan.  I want my students to discover answers.  That often means encouraging them to work through […]

]]> By: Carole /2010/to-my-amigos-north-of-the-border/#comment-264889 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:24:45 +0000 /?p=7979#comment-264889 Dan – I am a huge fan.

Your now famous TED talks video has made the rounds of district math coordinators across BC and is the subject of much conversation among my peers in schools and colleagues at Simon Fraser University. You have crossed the border in so many ways! :o)

I am working now to connect all the learning outcomes in our western Canadian common curriculum for grade 10 to WCYDWT tasks and I am having a blast doing it. It’s some of the most fun I have had in curriculum “re”-design in a long time. Thanks for the inspiration!

Hoping to make it out to your talk in March, but barring that, I’d like to echo Amanda’s invitation to come to Vancouver. It’s the prettiest — and most math-friendly — city around!

Carole

PS — BTW, we here in Canada prefer to be known as “vos amis” rather than “my amigos”, but we’ll work on your French come March. :o)

]]> By: 新东方考研 /2010/to-my-amigos-north-of-the-border/#comment-264877 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:38:13 +0000 /?p=7979#comment-264877 路过，踩一下。愿你每天有个好心情

]]> By: Darcy /2010/to-my-amigos-north-of-the-border/#comment-264863 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:07:38 +0000 /?p=7979#comment-264863 Hey Dan!

Super excited about your visit to Edmonton! I am a student teacher at the University of Alberta and am consistently excited about all your ideas! I’ve worked as a tutor for some time now and hear horror stories from students about terrible math classes and tons of homework! I hope to be able to use your ideas in a classroom relatively soon!

]]> By: Cathy /2010/to-my-amigos-north-of-the-border/#comment-264852 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:39:57 +0000 /?p=7979#comment-264852 We are so excited that you are coming to Edmonton! I have been sharing your Ted Talk video and I love the conversations that occur between math educators after we use this as a springboard to discussion. I am so thrilled when teachers begin to go through textbooks and other teacher materials and they all of a sudden can see the four layers in a problem. It becomes so much clearer how they can create opportunties for increased student engagement and authentic learning. Thanks for helping make this possible.

I sure hope that the ERLC has reserved a room big enough for your session!

]]> By: Anna /2010/to-my-amigos-north-of-the-border/#comment-264844 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:31:54 +0000 /?p=7979#comment-264844 You are right about perplexity and well stated. There is a wonderful UCSD professor, Guershon Harel, talks about not putting up the objective, etc. because it is a distractor. I know when I do math (high school math) in his institutes for teachers, all I know that I’m going to be working on problems. The problems have these twists and turns and they way he draws out the math from our approaches and answers is like a wonderful, mathematical mystery tour! Good luck! I wish I could be there.

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