Dan Meyer, a high school math teacher, expresses simple changes teacher can make in their classroom to engage students. He begins the Tedtalk by identifying five symptoms that you may see in a classroom from students that is a sign you are teaching math reasoning wrong. These symptoms are lack of retention, lack of perseverance, lack of initiative, no eagerness for understanding the formula, and finally aversion toward word problems. Dan Meyer also brings up the interesting point that the math textbooks we give our students are not teaching students problem solving skills. Some math textbooks have the answers and explanations in the back of the book, and students can decode the textbook themselves. In order to fix these issues, the speaker suggest making math come alive to the students. He suggests that if you can recreate the math problem in real life to capture students' attention and increase their participation. After doing this in his own classroom, Dan Meyer reported that after creating the problems in real life, he noticed that student's attention and interests increased greatly. He also noticed students who wouldn't normally participate become more involved with solving problems. The speaker wraps up his talk by suggesting that the teachers implement more use of multimedia, ask shorter questions, encourage intuition, and try not to be too helpful in order to regain students interests in math.