Transformative Principal

Dr. Grayson Maas is the Director of Communications for the Art of Problem Solving, a unique solution to teaching math anytime, anywhere.

• Motivated students in grades 2–12.
• We are the place students come to to learn math that they aren’t going to learn in school.
• Instill motivation in kids to want to do math.
• By and large math is traditionally taught with an emphasis on procedures, memorizing, and pattern matching.
• We are losing the art and beauty of mathematics by how we teach math in schools.
• We challenge them and ask them to rise to the occasion.
• We give them puzzles.
• We get a flood of serotonin when we solve problems.
• It’s not wrong to have the wrote, it’s wrong if that’s all you have.
• If you don’t move beyond the basics, you won’t be able to apply it later.
• If you take a problem-solving approach…
• We need to carve out time for kids to be uncomfortable with a problem.
• But how do we make time for that?
• It limits the incentive for kids to take intellectual risks.
• We can do this together. Education doesn’t just have to be teachers in a classroom alone.
• There’s a dissatisfaction because there is still a lingering question about how I would have done that.
• Rigorous activities early on!
• ASTE Keynote
• How to be a transformative principal? Carve out time and space for students to do some thinking without a goal in mind! gmaas@aops.com

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments