Motivation for Mathematics – Engaging Struggling Students
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
In an interesting article, “Celebrating Success“, Jackie Gingrich Cushman reports on an afterschool program called Learn and Earn, designed to encourage struggling students to achieve in Math. This privately funded program seems to have had some good results. That’s good news.
As we move forward into the 21st century, more and more our skills in working abstractly with technology, which mathematical thinking enables, grows in importance. If we want our culture, with its excellent virtues to continue to advance and to be available to each of us and our neighbors, we need to continue to innovate to cultivate mathematical skills in every segment of society. We really can’t overlook our struggling students without bearing much of the cost ourselves. (more…)
