Ethnomathematics
Through research on topics pertaining to the running of effective and productive mathematics classrooms, I found there to be three main foundations of them. One is a foundation based on motivation within the classroom and how the students react to it. Another one is the role of the teacher as a reflective facilitator rather than a fact-giver. Finally, I found that using an ethno mathematical approach reaches out to more students. In order to produce a structured, yet “free”, classroom the teacher has to be reflective in their practices using motivation and cultural themes.
Motivation in a classroom comes from external and internal systems. All children start school with an eagerness to learn and an internal “want” to know the how’s and why’s of everything. This eagerness is an example of intrinsic motivation. Along the way, they do not lose that eagerness but rather it gets discouraged by attitudes of their teachers. In order to keep fostering that intrinsic......
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