Dan Meyer Quotes
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Don't run with swords in your mouth!
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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!
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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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