Thursday, October 20, 2011

New Insights and Their Implications

Today a group presented about diving complex fractions. The point was not to learn about how to divide complex fractions but why do you do the processes that you do. A lot of this math class is wondering why do you do what you do and not what is the correct answer. Once students understand the why of the process they will understand the process more. A lot of math teachers do not do this, and it makes students question, why is this important? If the teacher stresses on the importance of the subject material and why it is important in real life scenarios then the students will be more willing to participate.

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