{"id":191,"date":"2011-03-24T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/?p=191"},"modified":"2011-07-30T10:28:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T10:28:03","slug":"ted-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"TED Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TED is a group in the USA which organises lectures. Here&#8217;s a TED lecture about teaching maths: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Meyer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dan argues that you should ask practical maths questions in a bare form. For example, you could ask, &#8220;You chuck a 1kg rock upwards at 2 metres per second; how high does it go?&#8221; Dan suggests instead &#8220;How high does a rock travel if you chuck it upwards?&#8221; Then the student has to realise what are the important quantities needed to answer the problem. Makes the problem deeper and more attractive.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something in this. Probably doesn&#8217;t apply as much to pure maths problems.<\/p>\n<p>Other TED talks I like: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lang\/eng\/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hans Rosling<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/lang\/eng\/chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking_stats.html&lt;br &gt;&lt;\/a&gt; \" target=\"_blank\">Chris Jordan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TED is a group in the USA which organises lectures. Here&#8217;s a TED lecture about teaching maths: Dan Meyer. Dan argues that you should ask practical maths questions in a bare form. For example, you could ask, &#8220;You chuck a 1kg rock upwards at 2 metres per second; how high does it go?&#8221; Dan suggests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}