Chapter 6: Mathematicians Rise to a Challenge

BBC documentary about Andrew Wiles’ solution of Fermat’s Last Theorem:

https://vimeo.com/24751596

Dan Meyer‘s TED talk:

Phil Daro‘s “Against Answer Getting”:

Joining the Math-Twitter-Blog-o-Sphere (#MTBoS):

• http://mathtwitterblogosphere.weebly.com/
• https://exploremtbos.wordpress.com/

Makeover blogs:

• Fawn Nguyen: When I Let Them Own the Problem (middle school)
• Joe Schwartz: Meatball Surgery (elementary school)
• Joe Schwartz: What He Said (elementary school)
• Dan Meyer‘s collection of makeover blogs (high school)

Low Floors, High Ceilings, and Open Middles:

• NRICH article Using Low Threshold High Ceiling Tasks in Ordinary Classrooms
• Dan Meyer’s Video Games & Making Math More Like Things Students Like talk, in which he discusses open middle problems:

• Open Middle: Challenging Math Problems Worth Solving is an excellent, free collection of open middle problems curated by teachers Robert Kaplinsky, Nannette Johnson, and Bryan Anderson

Productive Struggle and Destructive Struggle

• Robert Kaplinsky‘s Ignite talk:

• Francis Su, current president of the Mathematical Association of America, wrote an MAA Focus piece about teaching and productive struggle, reprinted here: The Value of Struggle