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ways to make maths interesting

After knowing the following 5 ways, one would certainly make maths interesting and fun for students. Otherwise, students generally find maths boring when done only in textbooks. And this has a cascading effect. Getting bored in maths would lead to disinterest and then there is a very a probability that one starts hating maths. And there is no one solution fits all approach to make your class engaging and enjoyable.

There could be several reasons why children fear math:-

  • Lack of Connection between the Student and Subject

Sometimes due math fear students generally tend to avoid the subject. They treat maths as most dreadful

  •  Teaching Method

A negative teaching method will never motivate students for learning. On the other hand a positive attitude towards teaching children with enthusiasm encourages children for learning maths.

  • Attention 

It is important for kids to pay attention in the class when they are taught. 

  • Lack of Basic Skills

To develop higher skills in maths , basics need to be very clear. The basic maths operations include addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Clearing with basic skills generates more confidence among children.

So, lets understand how to make maths fun for children. 

1. Let them know why they need the Math Concept

Use of Kitchen Items for Maths Understanding
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First of all, it’s important to let the students know why they are doing a particular concept. Knowing why they are doing the concept is one of the ways that would make maths interesting for them. Find out where the students will use each math topic you teach. It’s great you use actual examples in the topic and its relevance. At Winaum Learning, students make connections between the math topic and the real world. Maths is an essential part of our lives. It is almost everywhere, such as engineering, science, and technology. Scientists and engineers can’t do anything without the use of mathematics. They use it for analyzing data, pattern recognition, and evidence seeking. It offers a way that is very helpful and guides the students to understand complex data and information. Click here to read more on importance of maths in our lives. 

We can find maths in the kitchen. An example: We can do a lot of math in the kitchen of the house. Cooking and baking get children engaged. After all, recipes are a step-by-step sequence of operations to be performed.

Working in the kitchen has maths :

  • Measuring ingredients to follow a recipe.
  • Multiplying/dividing fractions to account for more or less than a single batch.
  • Converting a recipe from millimeter to standard units (teaspoon, tablespoon, cups).
  • Calculating cooking time per item.
  • Understanding ratios and proportions, particularly in baking.
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2. Doing Maths with examples makes it interesting

Make Maths Interesting with Robotics in Maths

Algebraic formulas and thereby doing calculations for the solutions is important and Vedic Maths as developed by Shri Bharti Krishna Tirathji is an excellent program to develop speed building methods for faster calculations. However, it is also important to let the students do practical problems and find out practical ways for solutions. Instead of starting each topic with a formula, start with concrete examples of the problems. Then, help the students see how the math theory can help to solve such problems. To teach the science concepts based on maths like speed, velocity, gear system….robotics is both hands-on and can be done with many examples and different models. 

3. Start with an interesting, real-world problem in maths

Make Maths interesting with solving real world problems

Generate curiosity by asking real-world problems rather than telling the formulas to find correct answers. Use pictures, diagrams,videos that show an interesting problem in your area so that students can identify with them. 

  4. Creativity and Ownership

Many math students feel very little ownership for the topics they are doing. They have little say in the concept topics of maths. The same assignments are given to students every year with no change. It’s not surprising there is little enthusiasm for students.

There are many ways we can encourage creativity in math. Technology is one of the ways and it get students to use creative means to explain a maths concept. One can use video, an animation, a diagram or powerpoint.

Such individualized assignments get them thinking about the bigger picture and therefore encourages creativity in maths.      

5.  Engage your math students is another nice way

Activities and Games make maths interesting

We should involve your students in the lessons! In your class, get the students to do meaningful activities.

  • Role-plays should be encouraged.

  • Making teams for maths projects.

  • Encourage their questions-Inquiry Based Learning. Get their ideas and feelings about the topic.

  Using the above ideas will surely make maths interesting. So, the more we use the practical approach in maths, the more interest student develops in the subject. The curriculum at Winaum Learning is specially designed to facilitate this form of learning. You can learn more about this at Winaum Learning Experience Session.

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Conclusion

One has to start believing that one can do it rather than making a small effort and giving up easily. Failures in maths should be taken as a learning lesson and thereby improvising by continuous practice. Hence developing a growth mindset is really important. Children should be continuously reminded of how they have succeeded in the different scenarios in the part to affirm their belief that they can do it. However, sometimes as a parent or as a teacher when we start criticizing children or show them how we fear math would actually make them also fear it.  Let’s not do that. Instead, motivate them by reminding them about their previous successes in the subject. Incentives and rewards work superbly with kids and why jus,t kids, it works with everyone. Also Whenever we put in hard work, we love to be rewarded and we work harder to achieve our goals. So making a points chart on completing assignments and offering little prizes to kids like pencil, rubber, sharpeners, TV Time, or extended play time works with them. Teachers at Winaum Learning are well trained in all the above aspects while teaching maths to children, hence a book a free trial to know more.

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