It looks some of the topics we teach at school level do not make any sense to students. Take for an example Financial Mathematics. We introduce Bond/Loan repayment and some of the learners don't even know that you can have a house that is owned by the bank for 20 years or so.
The other examples, are that of inflation calcuations, nominal and real interest, tax calcucations hire purchase and measures of dispersions. These are specialist fields and even some of the teachers have to do a little research before they introduce some of these topics.
I am not saying these sections are not important, but I think the level of difficulty should be considered and we need to relate/give/illustrate sections that are unfamiliar to learners with careful considerations.
I wish that math be made as simple as possible so a not to confuse and demotivate students from the beginning. We are struggling to make math as funny and enjoyable as possible, but our students do not seem to enjoy it, hence they become so negative to math. We need to have some relevancy to their livelihood and keep them interested.
What does a 13-17 year-old want to know in math so as to keep going? This is the right quesion for curriculum developers and researchers.
We need to make math kids-friendly, not professors explorations - as that makes it too abstract, and kids do not identify with it and they just give up! May be we need to engage teachers more and more when it comes to curriculum content coverage and activities to use to accomplish whatever student envisaged by the curriculum.
Comments welcome!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment