3. Everyone Hates Maths Anyway

The Complaint: Everyone Hates Maths Anyway

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The Cause:

Students absorb maths fear and loathing from peers, siblings, parents and the culture. eg.

From the TwoFatDudes blog.

The Solution:

Invite interesting guest speakers to talk to students. Other subjects do this. Bring in a cool young ex-student and attitudes can change, fast.

Otherwise show them these videos. The first video especially is AWESOME and totally, totally COOL.

Cool Guys talk about Math:

Here are their blogs:

Patrick JMT

Maths stories about death, tragedy and comedy in maths

Tyler De Witt

On Scientific Notation

On Significant Figures and using significant figures this video has had 1 MILLION hits.

Paul Andersen Bozeman Channel

Structure and Function of the Brain