9 Strategies for Motivating (HIGH SCHOOL) Students in Mathematics

[Garth Wilson]

The approach is still wrong. One of my beefs is that the necessary math for engineering is presented in such a theoretical and sterile way, and without real application, with the idea that it must be laid as a foundation ahead of the need. How will that generate interest? How does that help the student understand what's going on in his circuit on the workbench? It won't. How about teaching the circuits and letting the students run up against problems they don't have the math tools to solve yet, then pausing the electronics work to learn what now suddenly there's an interest and application for. That's how I got through a lot of stuff, teaching myself. I kind of have to learn things my own way anyway.