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Beyond Formulas: Making Math Relevant for Students

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Learning from current math textbooks is the equivalent of watching hours of "Two and a Half Men": meaningless, says math teacher Dan Meyer at last year's TED Talk in New York. Students are taught to solve formulaic solutions to formulaic problems without any real-world context. Check out Meyers' vision of what learning math should be.

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