Dalton Marsh @mathblab

Math Professor, Teacher Educator, Educational Researcher mathblab.tumblr.com USA Joined January 2016

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

3 years ago

#math problems are too often just exercises—no exploration or investigation—all practice and no play.

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“The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality” I was reminded of this David Hilbert quote the other day while trying to explain the proof strategy of starting with simpler cases.

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

3 years ago

The UK has positions “Professor for the Public Engagement of Science”. We need these in the US.

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

4 years ago

“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.” - Ronald H. Coase

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

4 years ago

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment." - Carl Gauss

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

4 years ago

My first journal article is officially published in ESM! co-authored with my wonderful PhD advisor rdcu.be/cETqe

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

4 years ago

#mathematics is a tool that everyone deserves a chance to learn and support to succeed.

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

4 years ago

Replace “I’m not a math person” or “I’m bad at math” with “math is hard”

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Dan Meyer @ddmeyer

4 years ago

Cancer diagnoses spike at age 65. Any guesses why? (Folks living outside the US – feel free not to answer, gloat.) #OMGraph #iteachmath h/t @lukeoneil47

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

5 years ago

When students say “I’m not a math person” what they really mean is “I’m not a calculator”—hear them out on the latter.

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

5 years ago

“Mathematics is not so much a subject as a way of studying any subject, not so much a science as a way of life.”—George Temple

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

5 years ago

“The primary aim of education is not to enable students to do well in school, but to help them do well in the lives they lead outside of school”—Elliot Eisner #mathematics #school #quantitativeliteracy

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

5 years ago

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5 years ago

Why do so many students see #math as a dead subject? Solving problems and making up new ones is the essence of mathematical life. If mathematics is conceived apart from mathematical life, of course it seems dead. — Rueben Hersh

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Dan Meyer @ddmeyer

7 years ago

What does a student look like in your class who has procedural fluency but lacks conceptual understanding? Three from me. More from you. #iteachmath #fluencyisnotenough bit.ly/2PC4nzA

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

8 years ago

"A smooth lecture may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards—all that is generally not pleasant." - Paul Halmos #STEMeducation #edchat #teaching

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

8 years ago

Decades of research in #education has reached consensus: We should abandon traditional lecture in favor of #activelearning. pnas.org/content/111/23… #edchat #STEM #STEMchat

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Dalton Marsh @mathblab

8 years ago

The role of the #teacher is not simply to #teach but also to provide opportunities for the students to teach themselves. #peerinstruction #activelearning #edchat #education