23 September 2008

The Problem Study Math in Indonesia

So many problems learning Math in Indonesia. Students I teach or I meet, many times say to me that learning Math is boring, learning Math is very..very...difficult to understand.
Let's we see one by one about the condition...
1. Many teachers in Basic School, didn't teach them more patiently, or press the pupil how but they teach them outside their mind. They don't push the pupils look for how, why, but teach them "these are the rules ....or .... these are something you cannot ask me.."
2. The teacher have problem with time and the subject must be learnt to their student, so they must give more time to their students to understand what they teach.
3. If this conditions is play around, so the student just know about the skin of the subject, they don't know what the point is, until they study at the higher level, e.g. Elementary School or University.
4. They need to understand the subject, but they don't have time or change to explore with experiment in their life, to apply the subject the teachers teach them.So they can solve the exam, or homework by they are drilled with many exercises or homeworks. (poor are they..)
5. They aren't learned increase their skill in counting or understand the point in Math, so they are built worse habit like always or easy to give up (if they meet difficult exercise), they didn't have fighting spirit to solve the problems themselves.
6. Many factor that I can't explore one by one here...

So, how to solve this conditions...? That's the big and good question, I think...

In my eyes as a teacher and a parents, I suggest that we (not just a teacher or parents, but we are together) must hand in hand, with good coordination to make revolution study math :

1. Renew the Teaching Method
Not just this is the rules.....not just say these are exercise you must do or these are you r homework...But, teach them with funny Math and Create the condusive situation to study math with HOW, WHY, and finally they can summary they experiment....

2. Give the exercises level by level, start from the easy, medium, and hard level in the exercises...Test they comprehensive understanding...

3. Don't teach too fast, louder your voice, make them enjoyable.....
4. Give them motivation that they are not stupid, they can solve the problems in Math,they can understand more ....
5. Let them study in group, so they can help one and another....

There's many ways to change motto : Math is difficult...
Now we can say "Study Math is Fun ......"

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