He is an inspiration to maths teachers around the world, despite only having been teaching 'math' for six years. Dan has a fantasic blog, where you can find some great ideas for teaching maths as well as discussion and debate around 'how' best to teach.
My favourite section of his at the moment is 'Pseudocontext' whereby he picks out textbooks and questions that use a context in which to teach maths that would never be a part of anyone's life, let alone a teenagers. He also invites others to send him their own spotted pseudocontexts. You really must look it up! (Dan Meyer's Psuedocontext). There's so much more on his blog - dy/dan.
Dan has also presented a TED talk - a platform exclusively for the great thinkers and doers in their fields. I have watched his talk a few times and each time it motivates me to want to do more in my own teaching.
You can see Dan's TED talk here.
What I would really love is for Dan to come to London. I want to hear him speak for real, to give my own PD a touch of the proverbial rocket, to inspire me close up. How about one-to-one INSET? Go through my schemes of work and tell me how I can improve not only my own teaching, but how I, in turn, can inspire our maths department. Pipe dreams, eh?
To top it all, he's not an unattractive fellow!
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