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Maybe find an application of the subject that they might find interesting. I suppose if you can't find anything that interests them, then it's much harder to te
by ogogmad 2y ago
Maybe find an application of the subject that they might find interesting. I suppose if you can't find anything that interests them, then it's much harder to teach it.
For instance, perspective drawing might provide a nice application of 3D projective space, its subspaces, and perspectivities between those subspaces. Some of the theory of conic sections might be relevant too.
Computer graphics provides a nice application of coordinate geometry. This covers elementary algebra, Pythagoras's theorem, etc.
Even eating pizza can provide an application of differential geometry.
- jvanderbot 2y agoI tell my kids they can have letter cookies if they pick a word that starts with the letter, and can have 5 treats if they ask for 4 but know what "plus one means" or can have 4 if they recite "2 plus 2 equals ... ". They're 3, so I don't expect that to scale, but I'm hoping it's normal reward-for-knowledge by the time we get report cards.
- CBLT 2y agoSomething that might work for getting your kids interested in modular arithmetic: The Chicken McNugget Theorem.