The 2011 MathScience Sessions
  • Track Listing

  • day one

    • Keynote
    • Breakout #1
    • Breakout #2

Keynote

LinkWolfram | Alpha

LinkWill It Hit The Hoop?

LinkGeogebra

LinkPseudocontext Saturdays

LinkYou Don’t Have To Be The Answer Key

LinkWater Tank

LinkProfessor Splash

LinkBurning Man

LinkThe Slow Runner

LinkJott

LinkSt. Matthew Island

LinkOrbeez

Breakout #1

LinkThe Ticket Roll – Problem Package

Where is the hook in each of these problems? What kind of image would provoke a student to wonder that hook on her own?

linkAlgebra

linkGeometry

linkPrecalculus

linkCalculus

Breakout #2

linkResponse Form

linkResults

How do you turn something interesting into something challenging?

FileEdmonton Water Consumption

FileTasty / Easy

FileThe Slow Runner

link300 to 1

FileThe USA As One Big Neighborhood

FileThe Price of Ink

fileSt. Matthew Island

fileBucky the Badger

Dan Meyer

The Presenter

Dan Meyer taught high school math to students who didn't like high school math. He has advocated for better math instruction on CNN, Good Morning America, Everyday With Rachel Ray, and TED.com. He earned his doctorate from Stanford University in math education and is the Chief Academic Officer at Desmos where he explores the future of math, technology, and learning. He has worked with teachers internationally and in all fifty United States. He was named one of Tech & Learning's 30 Leaders of the Future. He lives in Oakland, CA.

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