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Re: To K-12 teachers here: Another enjoyable post from Dan Meyer
Posted:
Jul 16, 2012 10:02 PM
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> On Jul 16, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Richard Strausz
> <Richard.Strausz@farmington.k12.mi.us> wrote:
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> >> I'll look at this later tonight. I know that, as
> >> defined by Dan, the 3-acts cannot teach Algebra.
> So
> >> the question is how is this teacher defining the
> >> 3-acts and is this teacher teaching Algebra.
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> >> Bob Hansen
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> > As you look at this later (I don't know how you
> have the time to do all that you do!!), please keep
> in mind that 3-acts don't teach a curriculum. They
> motivate students and add a focus to instruction.
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> > Richard
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> You say that but Dan does not say that. I have looked
> through his gigabytes of weekly lessons and it is
> primarily these media problems over and over and what
> little algebra there is it is an after thought. No
> one here has disagreed with the idea that a
> curriculum should include engaging problems. Dan goes
> MUCH further than that. I think I can sum up the
> issue as follows...
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> Algebra is not the study of problems, it is the study
> of solutions, Algebraic solutions.
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> When you use engaging problems they should engage the
> students in that study. Dan's problems do not do this
> because Dan refuses to frame them up that way. You
> can only frame them up that way with exposition and
> lecture and Dan is of the religion that telling
> students is wrong. I don't know why teachers like Dan
> or the authors of that Discovering Arithmetic book
> get so far off the track of teaching algebra. I gave
> my most frequent thought. Their students and the fact
> that they are forced to teach them algebra drive them
> to it.
>
> Bob Hansen
The 3-acts, begun (I think) by Meyer but now produced by others too, aren't Algebra or Geometry curriculum. I have never seen a claim to the contrary on his materials.
Richard
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