Comments on: Interesting Things To See At CMC-North This Weekend

By: mdows

mdows — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:32:38 +0000

Dan and everyone,
Does anyone know of a Biology person/group who are innovative with in curriculum change such as Dan? I love following Dan and have turned some Math teachers onto him, my searches end up with nil for Biology. I’d appreciate it if you could pass some contacts to my email. Our LSTA is boring and uninspiring. Thanks
mdows@centralcss.org

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:02:12 +0000

Afraid they don't sell recordings, Brett. I'll be posting some resources shortly, though.

By: Brett Edwards

Brett Edwards — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:21:51 +0000

Dan,

Do they sell recordings of the seminars? If so, can you provide a link?

Thanks,

Brett

By: Ethan Weker

Ethan Weker — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:09:13 +0000

I’ve been a big fan since I saw you speak a few years back at Asilomar, and still use the HIMYM Hot-Crazy Scale lesson, and some others as well. Your talk today was rejuvenating and a true highlight for me this year, especially since it is so closely related to one of my areas of interest, and some of the things I’ve done with it. I was planning to speak this year about some of my techniques, but now I’m glad I didn’t because I’ve got some more ideas from your talk and am eager to try them out.
Thanks again!
-Ethan Weker, Orion Academy

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:10:39 +0000

I didn’t realize Harold Jacobs was still speaking – I love his Geometry book! Is he online anywhere? I would be interested to see his handouts for this talk if they’re available somewhere…

By: Climeguy

Climeguy — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:40:54 +0000

@Sue I was fortunate enough to hear Harold speak on two occasions at NCTM annual meetings (1988 & 2003). He along with his book “Math-A Human Endeavor” inspired me to stay in teaching in the 1970s. in 2003 Harold had a book signing session for his Geometry text in the Freeman booth. At the time there was still some discussion about a 4th edition of Endeavor which would include more tech references, but it never happened mostly because of his reluctance to venture into more technology because he was already burned by others who wrote to his dismay blackline masters for Human Endeavor. He like Steve Jobs wanted to have total control to keep the product as elegant as possible and Im sure when he saw what others would doing with “support” material he probably referred to them with a Steve Jobs favorite “This is crap.” But in private only, he was too polite to have done it publicly.

Also, in 2003 I was sitting next to Zalman Usiskin and he whispered to me “Harold is a national treasure.”
-Ihor

By: Sue VanHattum

Sue VanHattum — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:30:45 +0000

I’ve never been to this, because the timing is so bad for me. Usually it’s the weekend before finals. One week earlier this year, but I still won’t make it. I will hope for next year.

I’d love to see Harold Jacobs and Alan Schoenfeld.