Most of the students find math is a boring subject,so this set of suggestion is for all math teacers and I hope students benefit from it too!.

Most of the following suggestions will take time away from your normal curriculum.You need to make a decision-do I plow through all the topics but leave my students bored and unmotivated,or do I spend some time getting them excited about math.

The following are basic suggestions.Of coursed,you are encouraged to find out a lot more about each one before trying them out.

1.Make it meaningful

   Many math courses suffer from the following issues.

   a.The teachers don’t know why they are teaching particular math topics and they often don’t know                             

      what else the students are learning in the other subjects.

   b.As a result,the student don’t know why they learn those math topics,either,the common questions,

     “Why do we have to learn this?”,is a reasonable one?

       Some possible ways to fix this.

   *Find out where the students will use each math topic you teach(it may be in their science class or

     Some engineering subject).It’s great when you can use actual examples from those other subjects

    and let the students know where they’ll use each math topic.

  *Help students make connections between the topic and the “real world”.If you’re not sure how it’s

     Used in the real world-do a search.

2.Start with concrete examples-leave the abstract concrete to later

                Math is a largely about abstraction.Mathematicians for a centuries have thought about real problems and come up with practical ways to solve those problems.Later,they have generalized the process ussually presenting the solution using algebraic formulas.When students have no idea what the original practical problem actually mean,how they can be expected to understand the abstraction of those problems (using the formula).Instead of starting each topic to with a formula,start with a concrete examples of the problems that where originally solved using that .Then help the students see how the math theory can help to solve such problems by showing them thinking behind the solution. 

 3.Starting with an interesting real-world problem.

                Most Math lectures start with “here’s the new formula for today.here’s are the steps.here’s the  

    correct answer”.The problem is ,there’s no atttemp to motivate students from thoseformula.It is

    better to use some pictures,photographs,or a real life situation that connect in todays topic.

Example: Relating to the real world (post on the board a picture of a performers of the big tent circus)

                Entertainment; At least 35 performers of the Big Tent Circus are in the grand finale.Some are piled into cars ,while others are balance on bicycles.Seven performers are in a car,five performers are balanced on each bicycle.Draw a graph showing all possible combinations of cars and bicyclces that could be used in the finale.B

DEFINE: X=T he number of cars

                Y=The number of bicycles

RELATE: The no.of performers       Plus      the no.of performers      is greater than or equal to      35

                         iIn cars                                        on bicycles

WRITE:           7X                                 +                      5Y                                               ≥                                35

 

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