In grade school, if someone had put a game in front of me instead of a dense impenetrable textbook, I think I would be okay at math instead of terrified of it. I’m great at figuring out games, but completely overwhelmed when trying to learn from a book of equations.
I said this 40 years ago - seemed pretty obvious when teachers would make a game out of learning at every grade level.
We did a stock market game in a high school class back then. Something a teacher had developed. It’s how I first came to understand how the market works.
Everyone learns much better when it’s done within a context.
I think part of the problem is text book authors make up problems that they haven’t taught you how to solve but they’ve taught you some pieces that maybe you could use to solve the problem, and then they expect you to figure the rest out… Which is just silly and IMO a major reason why kids that don’t have educated attentive parents struggle so much more.
In grade school, if someone had put a game in front of me instead of a dense impenetrable textbook, I think I would be okay at math instead of terrified of it. I’m great at figuring out games, but completely overwhelmed when trying to learn from a book of equations.
Right?
I said this 40 years ago - seemed pretty obvious when teachers would make a game out of learning at every grade level.
We did a stock market game in a high school class back then. Something a teacher had developed. It’s how I first came to understand how the market works.
Everyone learns much better when it’s done within a context.
I think part of the problem is text book authors make up problems that they haven’t taught you how to solve but they’ve taught you some pieces that maybe you could use to solve the problem, and then they expect you to figure the rest out… Which is just silly and IMO a major reason why kids that don’t have educated attentive parents struggle so much more.