9 Strategies for Motivating (HIGH SCHOOL) Students in Mathematics

[AlexFekken]

I think we are actually getting somewhere with this.

So we have (1) the brain-dead calculations sitting in the middle, (2) the application of those calcculations to science and engineering on one side, and (3) mathematics on the other side.

Unlike you (I think), I do not think that a mathematics class should focus on (2) but instead on (3) and use (1) for illustration purposes (and to make it more digestable) only. In my opinion (2) should be left mainly to science and engineering classes. Or perhaps, as I tried to suggest in my first post, separate (1) out as a topic on its own.

EDIT: E.g. throwing around matrices isn't mathematics (3) for me, my HP Prime can do that...