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Making Math Fun For My Child – Five Popular Tips
Have you ever wondered, “What is the secret to making math fun for my child?” As adults, most of us realize how important math is in our daily lives. Just about any job requires solving math problems of one type or another. Whether you are a farmer calculating crop yields per acre, a waitress adding up her tips, or a tailor figuring fabric needs, math touches all of us, every day.
So how do you motivate your child to do well in math class? It can be quite challenging to get kids interested in math homework, when they would rather be playing a video game or chasing the dog around the backyard!
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Lesson Plan Ideas For Math With Videos and Drama
Math can often be seen as being a little… staid. Very necessary, of course, but firmly grounded in the world of fact. It seems as if creativity and eccentricity has no place in a lesson plan for math. You can’t get creative with facts like 2 + 2 = 4 or with feet and inches. Or can you?
One teacher, Ms Kay Toliver, who originally worked in Primary School 72 in East Harlem, New York, has managed to change all that, and her ideas are beginning to spread to other educators, and she has won a Presidential Award for her creative ideas. A math lesson plan, for Ms Toliver, is likely to include songs, costume and drama – and her pupils absolutely love it. “I just try to figure out how I can make this information interesting enough,” she says, explaining why she has a tendency to sing some of her lessons or her use of eccentric costumes and props.
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Maths in Life
‘Mathematics is for the intellectual giants’, is the common belief. This is true as far as the subject mathematics is concerned. But, looking from a different angle, one can find that leading a life without mathematics is impossible, irrespective one’s intellectual level. When mathematics is presented as a complicated cluster of theories and formulas which are difficult to crack and digest, common man is never attracted towards it. But if he understands things closely, the picture changes. Perhaps many may start loving it. That is one reason why mathematics is called the servant of all sciences.(It is also known as the Queen of all sciences).
For an ordinary man the knowledge of mathematics is very often limited to numbers and forms. A new born baby gradually gets familiarized with forms from his (or her) contacts. His mother’s face may be the form that impress him first. The first geometrical form is printed in him through this acquaintance. Similar faces might attract his attention, but not other faces.
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