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I’ll be talking with Ihor Charischak at 6:30 PM Pacific / 9:30 PM Eastern tonight in the Math 2.0 webinar. The timing catches me in the middle of a messy reconception of this WCYDWT thing. It’s keeping me up at night but it’s made for an exciting summer and I’d like share some of that [...]

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I found our last live session fun and extremely profitable. I’m grateful to everyone who participated live in the DimDim room and later in the comments. I’d like to pull in twenty more volunteers to play around with a math problem tomorrow afternoon and test out some of my recent modifications to the instructional design. [...]

Boat In The River — Question from Dan Meyer on Vimeo. [Download Video] [Download Screencast, courtesy Jason Buell] As you’ll recall, I take kind of a dim view towards superfluous movie soundtracks, which is to point out that the music here serves an important purpose. Step One: Play the video. Ask the students for questions [...]

I haven’t found an effective format for online professional development using WCYDWT-style problems. (Nothing, anyway, that compared to three hours of face time with the Kannapolis teachers last month.) So I’m trying something new and looking for twenty volunteers to get an advance look at my newest WCYDWT problem tomorrow afternoon and run through it [...]