If you have never seen Dan Meyer or one of his posts on the web, let me point you in that direction. His ideas about teaching mathematics are brilliant. His premise is that compelling teaching results in engaged motivated learners. His primary method for presenting compelling lessons is to take a lesson from Hollywood. To Dan Meyer, good teaching must be good story telling. You must hook students into wanting to know, "what happens next." Meyer also has extensive practical training for using readily available web resources to produce your compelling content. As he instructs in his presentation from the Ted Talks, a good strategy for telling good math stories is to, "be less helpful." His idea comes from a critique of traditional text book, where all of the relevant information is provided for you and you simply need to plug the numbers into the equation to find the answer. For Dan, this is boring story telling. Instead, he wants teachers to simply ask the question. By not providing all of the information in the way we present the questions, by being less helpful, Meyer suggests that students will become self motivated problem solvers.
Bellow is a link to Meyer's Ted talk:
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