1. And other complaints you’ll hear while teaching math…
I’ll never use this!
And other complaints you’ll hear while teaching math…

2. Math is relevant
“I wont ever use this outside of school!” Did you know that over 80% of professions use AT LEAST middle school math? 25% of those professions use high school math “I want to make lots of money when I grow up.” Did you know that an engineer makes about $115,000 a year? ..and you have to take math to be an engineer “Math is too confusing.” Did you know that Charles Darwin, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison all struggled with math?? Imagine a world where they gave up just because something was hard.

3. Lots of Jobs Use Math Engineer Architect Scientist Professor
Businessmen

4. “my job won’t use math, so I don’t need it.”
Even if you don’t have a career that uses math daily, you will still use it
Even stay-at-home parents perform these task.
Paying bills
Understanding your paychecks
Balancing your checkbook
Budgeting
Grocery shopping
Doing your taxes
ALL THESE THINGS REQUIRE MATH

5. Their reaction when you ask if they understand the math lesson

6. Tips for getting students more involved in math
Relate Math to the Real World
When students can’t relate information to their lives they don’t care about it
Showing real life value makes students more apt to pay attention
Use Props
Helps with variety of learning styles
Including senses helps retain what is taught
Find Problems With More Than One Way To Solve
let students know that there are multiple ways to solve it
Challenge them to find multiple ways

7. “I can’t even help my child with their Math Homework”
Here are some helpful websites that make homework easy and fun:
Khan Academy offers a growing library of high-quality educational videos that can help parents brush up on school subjects or guide their child through homework.
Study Geek offers detailed help on all math courses from PhD experts
Fact Monster offers online math flashcards, references, conversion calculators, and more…

8. It’s important to remember the basics when trying to help our children excel in math
Identify all parts of the equation
Identify
Combine like terms
Combine
Use the steps involved in solving the particular type of problem you are working
You can always look up the steps in solving various types of problems online if you aren’t familiar with them yourself
Use
Take the problem one step at a time
Take
Remember PEMDAS
Remember
Don’t overthink, if something seems like the next logical step then it probably is!
Don’t overthink
Always check your answers
Check

9. Math problems use steps to be solved
Please: stands for Parentheses
Excuse: stands for Exponents
My: stands for Multiplication
Dear: stands for Division
Aunt: stands for addition
Sally: stands for subtraction
PEMDAS is just one of many steps involved in solving mathematical equations

10. Top 10 Universities with great math programs in the U.S.
Princeton
University of Michigan
Stanford
Columbia University
Harvard
Berkely
UCLA
University of Minnesota
MIT
Texas A&M

11. math in field trips
Architecture- teach how to estimate size of buildings you visit, compare the size of them to the tallest buildings in the world
Sports- go to a game around your area, record scores, calculate batting averages or free throw percentages, or compare win/loss records, and then take the information and put them into graphs back at school.
Factories- if you have access to a safe factory tour have your students record amounts of things they make (i.e. factory that makes ice cream, have students record amounts of ingredients and then relate that to amounts they would eat themselves)
Museums- find museums that allow kids to touch and feel exhibits. Have them do a scavenger hunt for as many shapes as they can find. Have them record the shapes measurements so they can find their area once they get back to school.

12. References
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