Check out my other blog: Word Salad, not related to math education. With Joshua Kosman, I co-construct the cryptic crossword for The Nation magazine. The blog is about that. --Henri
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Perplexity
On January 11, Internet celebrity and Stanford grad student Dan Meyer worked with the Math Dept at the Urban School, plus a handful of members of Escape from the Textbook! He presented his thoughts about how to design and present modeling problems, but in fact his ideas have broader applicability.I had already seen Dan's TED… Continue reading Perplexity
Dan Meyer live stream
The Center for Innovative Teaching is hosting two events with Dan Meyer on January 11 at the Urban School of San Francisco. Both events are sold out, but they will be streamed live (and archived) at: http://www.livestream.com/urbanschoolFrom 12:00 noon to 2:30 (Pacific Time), Dan will be working with the Urban School Math Dept and a… Continue reading Dan Meyer live stream
ATTC upgrade
Algebra: Themes, Tools, Concepts (ATTC) is an algebra textbook I co-authored with Anita Wah in the early 90's. It was ground-breaking in some ways, and includes many extraordinarily effective approaches to the teaching of algebra. In fact, ATTC features powerful lessons on many parts of secondary school math, which are used by teachers in grades… Continue reading ATTC upgrade
Geometry Labs
My book Geometry Labs is now available for free download on my Web site.Whew! It was a bit of work to get it ready.--HenriPS: In addition to the book itself, I'll be adding links to revisions and extensions of the labs. So far, a revision of the rep-tile lab, and an extension of the soccer… Continue reading Geometry Labs
Everything I Know
On December 1st, I was a guest presenter at the UC Berkeley School of Education, for a student-initiated course about teaching practice. My past experiences in working with preservice teachers (at NC State in 1992, and at USF in 2006) had been rather unsuccessful. Both times I taught a course for undergraduates who were future… Continue reading Everything I Know
Escape! Meeting notes 3 — habits of mind
This is the third and final installment of my notes from the Bay Area fall meeting of Escape from the Textbook!(Part 1) (Part 2)We ended the meeting with a segment led by Avery Pickford. (See his notes about the meeting.)He presented this problem:(He didn't present it exactly like this -- this is how the problem… Continue reading Escape! Meeting notes 3 — habits of mind
Escape! meeting notes 2 — Miras
Notes from the Fall Bay Area meeting of Escape from the Textbook! (continued)back to Part 1 Carlos Cabana challenged us to think of uses for Miras, and for tangrams.Having done a lot with tangrams over the years, I chose to work on Miras. I have a class set of those at school but have not… Continue reading Escape! meeting notes 2 — Miras
Escape! meeting notes 1 — tools, backward design
Last Saturday, I attended an Escape from the Textbook! meeting. As always, it was stimulating. Here are some notes.Carlos Cabana talked about the special role of tools in a student-centered pedagogy. Used properly, they allow us to reverse questions and get at big ideas. This is in contrast to the shallow use of tools which… Continue reading Escape! meeting notes 1 — tools, backward design
Interview
I was interviewed by MathMirror.org about a variety of math education topics.You can watch the videos (3 parts, 4 to 6 minutes each) on their Perspective #6 page.On the same site is a quite interesting article by Tom Murray about the demise of small math education publishers. --Henri
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