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 ...