Dan Meyer quotes
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“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.”
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“The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges as a numeral. This points in the direction of a definition of abstraction: when we abstract we voluntarily ignore details of a context, so that we can accomplish a goal.”
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“We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.”
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“Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' - such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.”
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“Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!”
-- Dan Meyer
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“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”
Source : Alexandre Dumas (2016). “My Memoirs (1802 to 1833)”, p.1444, Library of Alexandria
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“The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.”
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