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How Are You Motivating Students in Your Math Class?

How Are You Motivating Students in Your Math Class?. Dr. Glen Richgels Dr. Derek Webb Bemidji State University grichgels@bemidjistate.edu. Introductions. Name School Grades you teach Why are you here?. Set the Stage. Is motivation an issue in your classroom?

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How Are You Motivating Students in Your Math Class?

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  1. How Are You Motivating Students in Your Math Class? Dr. Glen Richgels Dr. Derek Webb Bemidji State University grichgels@bemidjistate.edu

  2. Introductions • Name • School • Grades you teach • Why are you here?

  3. Set the Stage • Is motivation an issue in your classroom? • Is it math or is it across the curriculum?

  4. Resources • The NCTM has a section of their website dedicated to motivation in the mathematics classroom: http://www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=16479

  5. Resources: NCTM Motivational classroom activities Research and general strategies

  6. In Class vs. Out-of-Class Do you notice/perceive a difference in motivation?

  7. Ever experience any of these? • 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

  8. Didn’t do homework because… • 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

  9. Ways to Engage Students Survey technology: • iClicker • Computers/laptops/iPads/etc…

  10. Welcome to the Wonderful World of Clickers Please answer the following to the best of your ability I am a female I am a male

  11. Questions that Invite Deeper Thought

  12. Roll a 6-sided die once. What is P(roll a 4)? 1/2 1/4 1/6 2/13 Not enough information to determine P(4)

  13. Roll a 6-sided die once. What is P(roll a 4)? Assume equally likely outcomes and S = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} 1/2 1/4 1/6 2/13 Not enough information to determine P(4)

  14. Questions that “Train” Students

  15. r = 0.121 r = 0.372 r = 0.644 r = 0.865 r = 0.978 r = 0.865 Guess the correlation

  16. Questions that Invite Group Work

  17. 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). 14 49 26 5

  18. Ways to Engage Students • Group Learning • Contextual Learning • Activity Based Learning

  19. Ways to Engage Students • Daily (or frequent) short quizzes • 5 minutes long • Immediate feedback

  20. Ways to Engage Students • “Work-at-the-Board”

  21. 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

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