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As a former educator in NYC for over 40 years, it saddens me to hear about Math Phobia! I loved teaching it to my fifth graders and was successful in getting them in not only liking math, but also valuing its purpose in their lives! The key is to understand why something is being done. Slow. Steady. Lots of mainpulates. Sometimes even a song and dance! Anything to frighten the Math Phobia away and open up my students' knowledge and learning abilities.
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Math becomes easy when we can Show them how INTERESTing it is, or as you say when we show them the Purpose behind it. But what do we do when we have math teachers who don't Like math. And I'm talking about dividing 3 by a third, student are told you flip the fraction and then multiply with it! Bingo!
But Why Flip; why Multiply when u r to divide? Not making up, it was on national radio in Canada...and Canada does better than America!
Jordan Ellenburger, an American Math prof recently appeared on National Radio, said, unlike other field of knowledge, Math proves itself. Therefore scary, as it needs no authority. Now that's a beautiful thing to know. Show that if nine kids need to eat 3 pizzas, each gets a third. No flipping of a fraction!
Anyway, glad you'd an interesting job, it's good for our health when teachers love what they teach.