https://mathgeekmama.com/math-is-a-foreign-language-so-treat-it-like-one/ Fun and FREE Math Teaching Resources Wed, 15 May 2019 17:24:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://mathgeekmama.com/math-is-a-foreign-language-so-treat-it-like-one/#comment-179489 Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:37:35 +0000 http://mathgeekmama.com/?p=1266#comment-179489 Thank you, this is totally my opinion too! I can only speak for the German school system (or actually only my school in particular) but I can say that language teaching there was utterly antiquated, so much less did it cross anyone’s mind to change the way maths are taught. Although my teacher was good, he had a lot of enthusiasm for the subject and was patient, but now that I have to recap maths for university and find a way to teach myself, I realise that maybe, I was taught the wrong way around, and probably struggles so much because of that. I’ve always been good at languages, at least at a later stage when it came to actually expressing myself written and verbally, I suck at reciting grammar rules though. I think there are a lot of people who see language the same way and I’m right now trying to restructure my maths (self-)teaching to exactly the approach I use with language. I was wondering if there was anyone else who saw it this way and came across your article, I’m glad I’m not alone with this!

]]> https://mathgeekmama.com/math-is-a-foreign-language-so-treat-it-like-one/#comment-54241 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:02:56 +0000 http://mathgeekmama.com/?p=1266#comment-54241 Brilliant article, this is how i see learning math too 🙂 To a great extent, It’s like learning a system of ways to express the language of logic i already have.

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