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I suspect when students ask, "When will I use this?", they don't see any practical or abstract uses of what the teacher is teaching. In other words, it isn't e
by Jarred 15y ago
I suspect when students ask, "When will I use this?", they don't see any practical or abstract uses of what the teacher is teaching. In other words, it isn't expanding their mind or changing how they think about things. I've yet to have a math teacher that does this well, but I've also yet to have a good math teacher. Maybe there's a correlation.
- georgieporgie 15y agoI keep mentioning that, in my opinion, non-college mathematics teachers generally only know enough math to get through the end of the material they're teaching in any given semester. I don't think they're capable of teaching the material from multiple angles, which seems necessary in order to instill a fundamental grasp of the material.