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How Are You Motivating Students in Your Math Class?. Dr. Glen Richgels Dr. Derek Webb Bemidji State University [email protected]. Introductions. Name School Grades you teach Why are you here?. Set the Stage. Is motivation an issue in your classroom? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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How Are You Motivating Students in
Your Math Class?Dr. Glen Richgels
Dr. Derek WebbBemidji State University
Name School Grades you teach Why are you here?
Introductions
Is motivation an issue in your classroom?
Is it math or is it across the curriculum?
Set the Stage
The NCTM has a section of their website dedicated to motivation in the mathematics classroom:
http://www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=16479
Resources
Motivational classroom activities
Research and general strategies
Resources: NCTM
Do you notice/perceive a difference in motivation?
In Class vs. Out-of-Class
Don't do their homework. Are brought to class by the police The police wait for them outside the
classroom Put their head down and pretend to write to
avoid class participation and responding in class
Miss class because of athletics Miss class because of extra curriculars Miss class because their 5th grandma died Missed class because they were in a ditch Left class because you called on them
Ever experience any of these?
They weren't in class last time Left their book in their car Dog ate it Left it at the relatives that they visited Left it on the bus Too busy with family schedule Couldn't remember what we did in class
Didn’t do homework because…
Survey technology: iClicker Computers/laptops/iPads/etc…
Ways to Engage Students
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Clickers
Please answer the following to the best of your abilityA. I am a femaleB. I am a male
Questions that Invite Deeper Thought
Roll a 6-sided die once. What is P(roll a 4)?
A. 1/2B. 1/4C. 1/6D. 2/13E. Not enough information to determine P(4)
Roll a 6-sided die once. What is P(roll a 4)? Assume equally likely outcomes and S = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}
A. 1/2B. 1/4C. 1/6D. 2/13E. Not enough information to determine P(4)
Questions that “Train” Students
Guess the correlation
A. r = 0.121B. r = 0.372C. r = 0.644D. r = 0.865E. r = 0.978
r = 0.865
Questions that Invite Group Work
You recently found out that the country Vulgaria has 112 McDonald’s Restaurants. Please use the regression model to estimate how many Nobel Prize winners herald from Vulgaria (you can round to the nearest whole number).
A. 14B. 49C. 26D. 5
Country Nobel Prize Count
McDonalds Count
Austria 11 148Czech Republic 2 60Denmark 13 99Finland 2 93Greece 2 48Hungary 3 76Iceland 1 3Ireland 5 62Luxembourg 0 6Norway 8 55Portugal 2 91Slovakia 2 10Turkey 0 133United States 270 12804
Group Learning
Contextual Learning
Activity Based Learning
Ways to Engage Students
Daily (or frequent) short quizzes◦ 5 minutes long◦ Immediate feedback
Ways to Engage Students
“Work-at-the-Board”
Ways to Engage Students
Small homework assignments
Homework students can be successful on working by themselves
Homework problem complexity builds over a course as students gain confidence and become used to completing homework
Ways to Engage Students