Teach relavent Maths to motivate studens

 Making maths meaning-full and practical give students a sense of purpose for learning Mathematics. Doing difficult exercises to challenge students brains will only leave them cold.At a workshop one of the professors from America told us that it is only Maths teachers who wants to know how  how long it would take if you lay a certain amount of bricks in a triangle area of 22.5m by 2675 cm.He said schools in America never teach you how to use  to maths to, save, budget, create money. For him, if you can't use Maths to make money, maths is useless.Needless to say, he was a Jewish professor

When you teach in context and students can see how they can apply mathematics in their own lives they will be more interested to learn. Telling a student you can use Maths to send a rocket to the moon and they will ask  themselves, I am not going to be an astronaut or build rockets.but if you show the how to use Maths to work out their monthly budget  or using  percentages to work out the GST for their first car, they are all ears.

At another workshop one of the presenters made the statement that the beauty of maths is is that is useless. This make me really think and I was asking more questions. She said that you are not constrain by having to make the calculations and stick to an application. You can go everywhere with , unlimited. First you find the maths, then you find the application, not the other way around. 

We  first discovered the cell phone, then later put a camera and torch and mirror,  games  and apps on it. 

Being unrestricted gives you freedom to go in any direction. 


Although she has a point, I still believe we should make Maths practical and part of the students world



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