math education

Beyond the cookie cutter

by Leo Shmuylovich April 26, 2010 General Interest
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I recently saw Dan Meyer’s outstanding TED talk and felt compelled to reach out to him for his thoughts about Virtual Nerd. He’s right about textbooks often doing a disservice to students when they teach with algorithms and not through discovery. I myself learned to love math by working on contest problems, which pushed me [...]

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