Today had some more very good things happen at the Institute. I think the first thing is the definition of an “Institute” versus a “Conference”. That distinction was made yesterday, and then briefly discussed again today in a session. Now these are not formal definitions, found in a dictionary. These are rough and dirty definitions [...]
That really is the question posed by Dan Meyer in his opening keynote speech at the NCTM Reasoning and Sense Making Conference Institute. Honestly, I had never heard of Clever Hans, and unless you are a fan of esoteric German animal trivia, you might not have heard of him either. Clever Hans was a horse [...]
It is time to start thinking about such things! First, room arrangement. This year I am expecting to have between 30 and 37 learners in each class. In the past, I have had my room arranged in a large, double sided U. This allowed for maximum conversation and collaboration, as well as random number usage [...]
It was the best of conversations, it was the worst of conversations, but in the end, it was an educational conversation for my cousins and I. Okay, enough with the Dickens reference. During the summer I take a little motorcycle trip. Okay, not so little. I do around 2500 miles from Nevada to Montana and [...]