I was not familiar with the acronym T.P.O.V. either until a couple of weeks ago when I was introduced to it at the NCTM’s Reasoning and Sense Making Institute. It was the presentation by Timothy Kanold that introduced the phrase, “Teachable Point of View”, and he brings it up in his book in Chapter 1: [...]
In Montana, there is a town called Haugan on I-90 near the Idaho border with an interesting building. As you approach, you see signs like this every couple of miles. [click on the pictures for a higher res image] Outside, the place looks like any tourist trap. Do they really have 50,000 silver dollars inside? [...]
This will be the last post I make on the specific topic of the 3 days spent in Orlando at the Reasoning and Sense Making Institute. I will expect that I make many more posts on things I do in the classroom that are based on the ideas I have learned, however. A collection of [...]
At the NCTM Reasoning & Sense Making Institute, I attended the session given by Beth Chance and Henry Kranendonk, two of the three authors of the Reasoning and Sense Making in Statistics and Probability book. I have that book on my bookshelf at school, and I have looked at it, but have not tried any [...]
Viva Hathaway was the third session on Saturday, and I looked forward to her presentation with great gusto. I attended a short session she gave at the NCTM Conference in Salt Lake City in 2009, and walked away from her session with a brain exploding with ideas. In fact, on her site, she still has [...]
I have to say I almost left Mr. Godbold’s presentation. It started off on a odd note, where he told us what he wanted to go over, then said we couldn’t do all of it, but we would be lucky if we did half, and then repeated himself for about 10 minutes. He looked and [...]
Timothy Kanold was the Superintendent of Adlai Stevenson High School District in Illinois. This school is a huge success story, because it went from bottom of the bottom to top of the top. They did this through a strong commitment to PLC’s and communication. Now Mr. Kanold did not spend a second on his Keynote [...]
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 [...]
I admit it, I read the funny pages first thing on Sunday morning. Okay, maybe I should first admit that I have a daily subscription to the newspaper and read it cover to cover every day. But, on Sundays, I read the comics first. Yesterday’s Doonesbury was an instant classic in my mind, worthy of [...]