Teaching (Math) Creatively

Dan Meyer is a high school math teacher who spoke at TEDxNYed 2010. Dan says that the way we teach math is not preparing our students to expect and know how to solve complex problems because we teach right answer learning, not necessarily thinking.  His talk is quite convincing.  If we want problem solvers, we need to prepare them by giving them the necessary motivation and skills: perseverance, reasoning, relevance, initiative, problem formulation, confidence, creative and imaginative thinking.  Dan is talking about math, but really his ideas about how and what we teach applies to all subjects and all ages.