Comments on: Unnatural Currents /2010/unnatural-currents/ less helpful Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:52:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Kitty Triangles and Puppy Bandanas, or why your students roll their eyes when you assert the value of math | KB 180 /2010/unnatural-currents/#comment-536171 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:52:43 +0000 /?p=7728#comment-536171 […] Meyer writes about Unnatural Currents. Here’s an example from the Geo textbook I […]

]]> By: New Blogger Initiation 4 | Random Teaching Tangents /2010/unnatural-currents/#comment-506262 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:11:52 +0000 /?p=7728#comment-506262 […] they liked and then left two years later. He wanted ‘no tree frogs’ (his version of dogs in bandannas) but left us with a book that was completely visually unappealing (no color in the book except […]

]]> By: Math MetaCognition « Who's a Math Nerd? *raising hand* /2010/unnatural-currents/#comment-486320 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:53:52 +0000 /?p=7728#comment-486320 […] the word problem and to pull out that “hook” question that is normally seen at the end of given math problems.  The second and third questions are to get student’s brains thinking […]

]]> By: Chickens, Any Questions? | ThinkThankThunk /2010/unnatural-currents/#comment-486164 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:30:50 +0000 /?p=7728#comment-486164 […] you are in danger of falling off the arête here, much like the unholy dog bandana. So play it close, and make sure your kids understand where their food comes from before you start […]

]]> By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Asking Interesting, Natural-Seeming Questions /2010/unnatural-currents/#comment-446087 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:35:48 +0000 /?p=7728#comment-446087 […] Previously: Unnatural Currents […]

]]> By: Elizabeth /2010/unnatural-currents/#comment-438348 Sat, 26 May 2012 04:13:44 +0000 /?p=7728#comment-438348 I just realized something about this problem: the “You” in “You can use properties of special right triangles…” is, in fact, directed at the *dog*, who has recently acquired a dog of his/her own (and consequently needs to share his/her bandana).

– Elizabeth (aka @cheesemonkeysf on Twitter)

]]> By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » These People With Their Dogs Wearing Bandanas /2010/unnatural-currents/#comment-437128 Thu, 24 May 2012 04:39:28 +0000 /?p=7728#comment-437128 […] Previously: Unnatural Currents […]

]]> By: Any questions about this video? | Casting Out Nines /2010/unnatural-currents/#comment-289298 Fri, 27 May 2011 01:01:13 +0000 /?p=7728#comment-289298 […] asked this on Twitter a few days ago, but I’ll repost it here: In the spirit of Dan Meyer’s Any Questions? meme, what questions come to mind as you watch this? Particularly math, physics, etc. […]

]]> By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » #anyqs /2010/unnatural-currents/#comment-284555 Thu, 05 May 2011 16:56:23 +0000 /?p=7728#comment-284555 […] work in a world where it's totally normal to take some cheap clip art or stock photography and ask a question about it that would occur naturally to nobody else in the world. I'm challenging you to flip every aspect of […]

]]> By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » [PS] The Hot Air Balloon Thing Again /2010/unnatural-currents/#comment-271393 Sun, 05 Dec 2010 02:51:20 +0000 /?p=7728#comment-271393 […] while not pseudocontext, we have another situation where the author asks the student to solve for inconsequential measurements and ignore the […]

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