{"id":4574,"date":"2010-05-28T16:22:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T08:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=4574"},"modified":"2011-10-03T21:07:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T13:07:14","slug":"friday-math-movie-dan-meyer-math-class-needs-a-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-dan-meyer-math-class-needs-a-makeover-4574","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie - Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Math is boring?<\/p>\n<p>No, but many math classes (and text books) are boring, and it doesn't have to be so.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Meyer points out some of the problems with the mind-numbing way math is often taught, and provides some suggestions on how to change that.<\/p>\n<p>As his blurb says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NWUFjb8w9Ps\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-dan-meyer-math-class-needs-a-makeover-4574\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/05\/water-tank2.png\" alt=\"water tank\" title=\"water tank\" width=\"128\" height=\"107\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>When students understand math is a tool for solving problems, and start using the tool in that way, it is less likely to be boring. This video suggests some ways that is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}