It will also provide you with ideas and direction so you can break out of the mold a bit and develop your own creative teaching activities. Or, maybe you're at the other end of the spectrum, a full-time math teacher with a degree in math and a love of math. Wherever you find yourself in the continuum of teachers of mathematics, I hope you will find something useful in this site that will help energize your classroom and maybe even transform and redirect your whole approach to teaching math. Oftentimes, students who participate in adult education programs have not had much success in their previous math classes. If teachers use materials that appear different from past classes and create a supportive classroom atmosphere, anxious students will be encouraged to tune in and begin to really understand.
Students enroll in adult education classes for many many reasons.
Sometimes there are as many reasons as there are students in the class. As a teacher, you may not be able to eliminate these elements from your class entirely. Students do need to practice skills so that they can solve problems without getting bogged down in algorithms. But if you spice up each math lesson with at least one fun, different, creative, hands-on activity, something that makes the students active learners , their interest, understanding, and success rates will soar. I do all those things when I teach language, but I never thought about doing these things with math.