Comments on: Education Week Webinar feat. Yours Truly

By: lfarrington

lfarrington — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:02:39 +0000

The webinar was great Dan, thank you for all of the details you provided about how to get started with this philosophy in the classroom. I’m feeling pretty inspired!

By: lfarrington

lfarrington — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:06:39 +0000

I’m looking forward to this!

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:05:21 +0000

Crud. That’s 4PM EST. Thanks for catching that.

By: Alex Eckert

Alex Eckert — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:30:23 +0000

Dan, your post says 1 pm EST but the webinar link says 4 pm EST. Can you verify which is correct?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:10:09 +0000

Typo: the “both” in the second paragraph should probably be “bother”.

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:52:52 +0000

Thanks for the question, Mandy. Here’s the rough outline of where we’ll be heading in the sixty minute session:

I’ll make a case – two reasons – why we should even both connecting math to the real world, why we shouldn’t just pack that enterprise up and stick to pure math.

I’ll define pseudocontext and pseudo-problem solving, the two most common ways we disrupt that connection between the real world and math. Those two syndromes represent a lot of why students feel like math has no meaning in their lives.

Then I’ll define two ways we can make that connection between math and the real world stronger, tighter.

It’s going to be a practical, heavily-illustrated talk. I hope that helps.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:38:11 +0000

Can you provide an outline or agenda for the webinar? I’m recommending it to four of the schools with whom I work, but would like to give them a little more detail. Thanks.

Glad I found your blog. I’ll be passing the link on to them as well.