Dan Meyer Quotes & Sayings

I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it. — Dan Meyer

Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert! — Dan Meyer

Don't run with swords in your mouth! — Dan Meyer

Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' - such an underrepresented question in math curriculum. — Dan Meyer

The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges as a numeral. This points in the direction of a definition of abstraction: when we abstract we voluntarily ignore details of a context, so that we can accomplish a goal. — Dan Meyer

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is. — Dan Meyer