> On Thu, 18 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I am a new teacher with a background in psychology. I teach 6th and 7th
> > grade mathematics, I would like to know If I can use child psychology to
make
> > my math class a little more interesting and if so what techniques can I
use??
> > HELP!! pleasee!! Thank you for listening Anil
Give tools and make your students "sing" -- but not
"think". And be ready to give the exact clue when the
righ question (the "light") appears (in individual basis).
You need to know that some priests of education
today are only graves: Piaget, Viigostsky, Skinner.
Today we know that most people are endowed
with socials skills (as a common species-specific
human intelligent pattern) BUT only a handful of humans
are endowed with more logical/mathematical/statistical
potentials. So, if you can make math a little more funny
and socially enjoyable as a task (even making people
learn by heart some formulae, singing or making
games and playing competitively) simply do it.
And don't forget the boys... they are innately
different than girls. Try to reassort the class,
physically alternating boys and girls during
the expositive classes of math.
Ok?
Hod, from Brasil.
