Monthly Archives: "January 2016"

Teachers, parents, tutors, and students have long been struggling with a familiar question when it comes to teaching and learning high school math: When will these concepts ever be used in real life? Dan Meyer tackles this question in his 2010 TED Talk, as he suggests that North American textbooks have a certain way of

For many North American high school students and their parents, there’s a focus on an end goal of earning acceptance to a high ranking college or university; you get the grades, you go to a good college. This mindset is in line with the common conception that the bigger, more prestigious the college, the more