Tips for Teaching Mathematics to Make Learning More Enjoyable. Teaching Mathematics can indeed be a challenge for a teacher. The lesson is often a scourge for students; many students are afraid that when they enter the classroom for the counting class, they are tense, and other bad impressions may appear when the Mathematics lesson arrives. For this reason, Mathematics teachers must have a special way to make their learning more fun and less scary.
Meanwhile,
Mathematics is one lesson that must be taught from elementary to advanced
levels. Not infrequently at these various levels, many students feel afraid when
it comes to learning Mathematics.
Why students don't like Mathematics lessons should be investigated by the teacher. So that the problems of students' dislike of the subject can be solved.
There are
actually a number of factors that cause students to be unhappy with
Mathematics. First, it is possible that before entering Mathematics class,
students already have the perception that Mathematics is a difficult, scary,
dizzying lesson, and so on. Such presumptions should be eliminated by the
teacher.
How to teach
fun math
1. Teach
Concepts Correctly
The concept of
Mathematics is an abstract one. That's what makes it hard for students to
understand. Moreover, if the teacher is not able to explain correctly, then
students will be even more confused.
For this reason,
the teacher must be able to explain mathematical concepts correctly. That is,
it must be able to make abstract mathematical concepts into something concrete.
This is indeed
not easy. But Mathematics teachers can learn about how to teach something
abstract into a concrete thing.
There are many
resources that teachers can use in learning to explain Mathematics to students.
You can study on Youtube, look for references on the internet, or from books.
Thus, you will have many references when teaching to make students happy.
2. Using a Fun
Method
The methods used
in learning Mathematics can also determine whether the mathematics learning
that runs in the classroom is exciting or not. For this reason, Mathematics
teachers must be smart in choosing the method used.
It is certain
that the class will become boring if the learning method used is only with the
practice method of questions, students are forced to do questions that they do
not really understand fully. This kind of method can of course be a problem for
students. And in the future, they will be afraid to learn Mathematics again.
In fact, there are many methods that mathematics teachers can use in teaching these subjects. There is nothing wrong with teachers teaching Mathematics by game or game methods. So that learning will be more interesting and make students more curious
3. Menanamkan
Mindset “Math is Fun”
As mentioned at
the beginning, many students have the mindset that Mathematics is a scary,
difficult lesson, and so on. It showed up before they even went to class.
Such a
presumption is almost deeply rooted among students almost all over Indonesia.
Therefore, it is the task of the Mathematics teacher to dispel the presumption
and begin to instill that the lesson of Mathematics is an easy, fun lesson, and
so on.
To instill a
"Math is Fun" mindset in students, of course, takes a long time. But
it can be started by presenting fun learning—for example by teaching
Mathematics with game methods, projects, discussions, and the like.
If mathematics
teachers are able to present fun mathematics learning, then gradually students'
perception of negative mathematics will certainly gradually disappear.
4. Practice
When learning on
theory alone, it will drain the brain. And process abstract mathematical
concepts will certainly make the mind tired. Therefore, the practice of
Mathematical concepts needs to have a sufficient portion. So in addition
to understanding theory, you also know about its application in real life.
Sometimes
students are lazy to learn Mathematics has not known the benefits of science in real life. So they feel that they don't need to learn Mathematics
further. They think that basic numeracy skills are enough as a provision for
life in the future.
Faced with such
thinking, Mathematics teachers must be able to correlate between Mathematical
theory and real life. And the easiest way to show the benefits of Math in real
life is by way of practice.
5. Give Time
off
Mathematics is
indeed a subject that requires quite a high brain performance. In the midst of
learning, it never hurts for teachers to give time off with ice breaking
and the like.
Pressuring
students to learn continuously is actually not good for students learning
outcomes. It is precise with a relaxed, happy mind, that it will make the
Mathematics lesson well understood by students.