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Dan Meyer on Rhetoric

Dan Meyer on Rhetoric

Dan Meyer's TED talk video is interesting. He astutely identifies a deep malaise in much math curriculum (i.e. it's all grammar level material), and talks through how to pose students questions that incorporate rhetoric as well. 

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Comment by William Carey on March 2, 2012 at 4:31pm

I'm sad I just discovered his work now! His blog is full of good stuff too. http://blog.mrmeyer.com/ -- He doesn't come from a classical background, but his ideas about concrete and abstract are (I suspect) well explained by the distinctions within the trivium. And his ideas about making math hard to make it possible comport nicely with the idea of rhetorical work as the capstone of the trivium.

Comment by Jesse Hake on March 2, 2012 at 3:12pm

Thanks, Bill! Great material. I sent this link around to all of our upper school math teachers.

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