A Great Follow!

Dan Myers was a High School Math Teacher in the San Francisco area.  He is currently studying at Sanford University, getting his doctorate.  This is not why I like following him though.  I follow him because of his innovative way to look at math.  He believes that students need to formulate questions and find solutions to these questions that they developed.  Math texts book of today spoon feed students on how to answer question but do nothing to get the students to understand math.  I 100% agree with Dan.

Another thing I love about Dan is that he doesn't just talk about how math education needs to change, but he changes it and shares it ALL!!  When you follow his blog you get access to all his lessons that he makes.  He often takes problems you would find in a textbook, but then changes them to real life situations.  An great example is when he uses proportional reasoning by taking a picture that includes something of standard size in it(i.e. a credit card). Using the thing they know is of standard size they can determine the size of other things in the picture (i.e. a coffee cup) but he doesn't tell his students that.  He proposes a question like "how tall is the coffee cup in the picture?" and gets the students to come up with possible ways to find the solution.  After this he will bring in the actual coffee cup and see if the students are right.  He also uses this opportunity to discuss possible error in their problem solving.

I highly recommend any math educator to follow his blog.  He is very interesting.  If you are not sure if you want to follow him, watch the video below and I am sure you will be convinced.
Dan Meyers blog: http://blog.mrmeyer.com/
Twitter: @ddmeyer