A blog about teaching and learning in a maths classroom.
Recently, I have been considering how to see more fruit in my classroom. As I mentioned previously, the effort factor is significant. The modern idea that students will (or should?) only engage in activities of interest to them goes against everything they will come up against in the future.
There are students in my classes for whom no matter what you do, they will not engage. They lack motivation. The motivations I would have had at school: please my parents, work hard out of a sense of duty, do my best to move forward to the next thing, do not exist even a smidge for some students.
Students struggle with this:
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MathsLinksSimon Job — eleventh year of teaching maths in a public high school in Western Sydney, Australia.
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