i find that i'm being challenged to find ways to make math fun. it's already intrinsically fun to me, so i guess i forget to make sure concrete things happen in the lesson to convey that to students. i could tell today that the algebra II class was just somewhere else in their mind during the lesson. (it was the last day before a 4 day weekend...) but i knew my lesson wasn't that interesting too, even though i explained things well and when they were working on the homework i could tell that everyone understood it. the biggest question for students who don't like math is "why are we doing this?" and i have a lot of philosophical and practical answers, but those answers don't work on a day to day basis when trying to make lessons that actually engage students. this kind of goes along with anticipatory sets--having things in the lesson that are relevant to student interests and actually engage them and get them thinking.
i'm happy that i have a good anticipatory set for even and odd functions today with the analogy of a convex and concave mirror. we shall see how it goes.
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