Dan Meyer famous quotes

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

#Teacher #School #Math

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

#Education #Orange #Goal

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

#Motivation #Inspiration #Math

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

#Motivation #Inspiration #Math

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

#Were Not Meant To Be #Steel #Dinner

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

#Running #Mouths

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.

Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

Order is heaven's first law.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.