7. Dan Meyerʼs 3 Acts of a Mathematical Story
Act One
Introduce the central conflict of your story/task
clearly, visually, using as few words as possible.
10. Act One
Any questions?
Act Two
Coke Activity
What do students need to know to
solve this? planning activity
1. show image
Act Three
2. directions (q, info, reveal)
How will an answer be (and show Timon’s site)
3. discuss revealed?
What is a possible extension?
Pop Box Design from Timon Piccini
19. Featured Blogs
(in order of appearance)
John Scammell “Zero-Knowledge Proofs”
Dan Meyer “dy/dan”
Timon Piccini “Mr. Piccʼs Mathtabulous (And More) Site”
Kate Nowak “f(t)”
Frank Noschese “Action-Reaction”
Mimi Yang “I Hope This Old Train Breaks Down”
Geoff Krall “Emergent Math”
Nat Banting “Musing Mathematically”
Shawn Cornally “Think Thank Thunk”
Sam Shah “Continuous Everywhere But Differentiable Nowhere”
http://sqworl.com/rj4spi
20. Blair Miller
@millerblair
Chris Hunter
@ChrisHunter36