Thursday, November 15, 2007

How do you feel about Teaching Fractions?

As we all know, attitude is key to most things that we do, and teaching fractions is no exception. Before trying to teach something, it is important to sort out your own experiences first.
What do you think about math? When you were in school, do you hate math? Find it boring and useless? Does math make sense to you?
The answers to these questions may just be determining how effective a teacher you are.
Good teachers and effective teachers love the subject they are teaching, or at least aren’t totally negative about it. If a teacher feels negatively toward math, children will pick up on subtle clues and they too will feel negatively towards math. Two major factors in the student’s achievement in math are the way it is taught and the way the teache View the rest of this article


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