Comments on: It Isn’t Enough to Love Kids or Math: My Foreword to “The Five Practices In Practice” /2019/it-isnt-enough-to-love-kids-or-math/ less helpful Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:46:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Benjamin Liu /2019/it-isnt-enough-to-love-kids-or-math/#comment-2459965 Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:46:57 +0000 /?p=29965#comment-2459965 Thanks you for allowing me to translate some of your blog contents！！！

]]> By: Dan Meyer /2019/it-isnt-enough-to-love-kids-or-math/#comment-2459960 Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:26:27 +0000 /?p=29965#comment-2459960 In reply to Benjamin Liu.

I’d be honored.

]]> By: Benjamin Liu /2019/it-isnt-enough-to-love-kids-or-math/#comment-2459958 Fri, 14 Feb 2020 04:23:56 +0000 /?p=29965#comment-2459958 Dear Dan, thanks for your excellent sharing ! I’m a Chinese math teacher right now , and I’ve learned so much from your sharing. Would you mind my translating some of your articles into Chinese and posting them on my WeChat public account and my blog ? Just for sharing your brand-new and advanced teaching thoughts. Of course , there will be the original links below the translations.

Again , thanks for your sharing !

]]> By: M Sheffner /2019/it-isnt-enough-to-love-kids-or-math/#comment-2455271 Sun, 23 Jun 2019 05:53:02 +0000 /?p=29965#comment-2455271 What Tiffany said. I don’t teach maths, or middle school. I don’t even teach English-speakers, so difficulties are compounded when it comes to getting them to talk about what THEY are seeing and thinking and feeling about those “180 unappetizing” (but oh-so-pedagically-sound) morsels I’m serving up endlessly.

Fantastic

Just bought the book. Even tho I don’t teach maths. Or middle school.
]]> By: Dan Meyer /2019/it-isnt-enough-to-love-kids-or-math/#comment-2454732 Tue, 21 May 2019 19:28:51 +0000 /?p=29965#comment-2454732 In reply to Christa Amezcua.

Teaching needs all sorts! I’m glad you’re in it. I’m also glad that love and empathy aren’t qualities endowed in us at birth at fixed, unchanging levels. They’re qualities we can and should develop, just like math knowledge for folks who don’t know math!

]]> By: Christa Amezcua /2019/it-isnt-enough-to-love-kids-or-math/#comment-2454731 Tue, 21 May 2019 18:53:32 +0000 /?p=29965#comment-2454731 I’m a teacher completely because the first reason.
It’s not that I don’t love kids, but my “interpersonal intelligence” is the least developed. It’s hard for me to show that love. No one would come to me for advice, I would probably make a joke and that one would cry… Unless the advice is about how to tackle a math problem! That’s what I do best.
So, actually, teaching and math is the only way in which I can connect to people.

]]> By: Mike G /2019/it-isnt-enough-to-love-kids-or-math/#comment-2454663 Fri, 17 May 2019 18:38:32 +0000 /?p=29965#comment-2454663 Great blog. I love Tiffany’s comment above.

2 small thoughts:

1. Praise phone calls to parents is a particularly powerful (and accidentally alliterative) way to show students you care about them as individuals. A bank shot of sorts.

The technique is also well suited for teachers who are less comfortable with the logistics of “listening” to students during normal school hours, b/c of the trade-offs.

2. Middle and high school teachers often think of a college professor who had such pure love of subject, and that love inspired all the students. That’s the mental model of what you describe.

A key difference is college students chose to take the class, and middle and high school kids are assigned. This lack of agency increases the need for relationship building.

]]> By: Tiffany Ward /2019/it-isnt-enough-to-love-kids-or-math/#comment-2454644 Thu, 16 May 2019 20:31:49 +0000 /?p=29965#comment-2454644 This one’s a real rollercoaster ride!

This one got me right in the feels. Seeing students as “abstractions, interchangeable,” convincing my self “that it’s possible to influence what they know without care for who they are… without risking negative consequences to their identity.” Stick a fork in me, I’m done. If that doesn’t light a fire to change I don’t know what could. Oh, maybe when you said, “A teacher’s love and understanding of mathematics won’t help when students have decided their teacher cares less about them than about numbers and variables, bar models and graphs, precise definitions and deductive arguments.” Guilty, guilty, guilty. I can’t tell you how often I treated my classroom like a fast food bar, serving up single serving portions of the most unappetizing food you may ever eat, but doing it so well I could serve 180 people a day, all by myself. I’m so excited to grow and learn about my students in new ways so that I will be better able to serve them in a way that is meaningful to them. First things first, I gotta get my kids talking, a lot. A lot.
]]> By: Sarah Panucci /2019/it-isnt-enough-to-love-kids-or-math/#comment-2454537 Sat, 11 May 2019 02:41:20 +0000 /?p=29965#comment-2454537 I’m just starting to get into blogging and following blogs and I have to say that personally I really connected with everything you said. I love mathematics and how it all fits together, but I also really enjoy my high school students. They are all hilarious in their own ways, different, challenging, and exciting and the puzzle I try to figure out every day is how to try to make math accessible to them all. Thank you for your continued enthusiasm and strategies to try to make figuring out the puzzle seem possible. :)

]]> By: JasonP /2019/it-isnt-enough-to-love-kids-or-math/#comment-2454440 Sat, 04 May 2019 00:50:10 +0000 /?p=29965#comment-2454440 Many thanks for your writing, Dan. As an English teacher, I find it inspiring, and cross-disciplinary applicable.

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