As a teacher in Mathematics, how can I make my students love the subject and let them learn more out of it?

I have tried different strategies, from games to discoveries. But with so many intervening activities, including technologies where our youths are now offered, they seem less interested to learn more inside school. They also have short memories because if I assess them right after our lesson they seem to understand,but when asked them later,say a day after, everything went puff….and they have to be reminded again.

As an English major, I was never interested in math and science in school. Mostly I attribute this to the way these subjects were taught. The teachers weren’t bad, but I never saw any connection to the outside world.

It wasn’t until I got into my master’s program that I read a book called Fermat’s Enigma. Fascinating stuff. I didn’t understand the math, but I could finally see how the subject was interesting. math explains the world in a way very similar to poetry (what I was studying). Both are abstractions of concrete objects, as I unerstand it.

I think one way to make this connection is to relate the topic to something in the outside world. When I teach English, I use subjects like terrorism and propaganda so the topic keeps there attention when the subject doesn’t.

For math, what interested me (and still does) is how to apply it to the outside world in unique ways. My brother-in-law is an engineer. When we went on a long roadtrip, we broke down the trip into days of the year on a calendar, then figured out the date based on the millage. Not something you could do in an advanced class, but fun nonetheless. Seeing ways to infuse this somewhat rigid system with imagination helped me to appreciate the application a little more.

I wish you luck.

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