BBC documentary about Andrew Wiles’ solution of Fermat’s Last Theorem:
Dan Meyer‘s TED talk:
Phil Daro‘s “Against Answer Getting”:
Joining the Math-Twitter-Blog-o-Sphere (#MTBoS):
Makeover blogs:
- Fawn Nguyen: When I Let Them Own the Problem (middle school)
- Joe Schwartz: Meatball Surgery (elementary school)
- Joe Schwartz: What He Said (elementary school)
- Dan Meyer‘s collection of makeover blogs (high school)
Low Floors, High Ceilings, and Open Middles:
- NRICH article Using Low Threshold High Ceiling Tasks in Ordinary Classrooms
- Dan Meyer’s Video Games & Making Math More Like Things Students Like talk, in which he discusses open middle problems:
- Open Middle: Challenging Math Problems Worth Solving is an excellent, free collection of open middle problems curated by teachers Robert Kaplinsky, Nannette Johnson, and Bryan Anderson
Productive Struggle and Destructive Struggle
- Robert Kaplinsky‘s Ignite talk:
- Francis Su, current president of the Mathematical Association of America, wrote an MAA Focus piece about teaching and productive struggle, reprinted here: The Value of Struggle