Monday, April 19, 2010

Dan Meyer on Teaching Math

"Can I ask you to please recall a time when you really loved something...a movie, an album, a song or a book and you recommended it whole heartedly to someone you really also really liked and you anticipate the reaction and you waited for it and it came back and the person hated it...so by way of introduction, that is the exact same state in which I spend every working day for the last six years. I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it. It is just a losing proposition." - Dan Meyer

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Click on the video to watch the rest of his inspiring talk:

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