Videos+-+Math

= Online Media = toc This is a section dedicated to cataloging all the great online media that I have encountered that is related to teaching.

TED Talks - Math Class Needs a Makeover
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Description from TED: 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. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

TED Talks -Teaching Kids Real Math With Computers
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Description from TED: From rockets to stock markets, math powers many of humanity's most thrilling creations. So why do kids lose interest? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.