17 Quotes by Dan Meyer

Four hours after we finished planting those acorns, we got the call from friends at church that Hope Stout had died. And while we had already been thinking about ways that we could use those trees some day to give back to Hope, that sort of sealed their fate as the Hope Oaks.

I think it's kind of the fear of the unknown.

The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges as a numeral. This points in the direction of a definition of abstraction: when we abstract we voluntarily ignore details of a context, so that we can accomplish a goal.

Don't run with swords in your mouth!

Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!

Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' - such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

As a farmer, I see the need to keep developing markets for our commodities. Renewable fuels has been something our industry has been working on for years and I think we have only begun to scratch the surface as far as demand and usage.