Name : Annisa Fitri Adawiyyah

Student ID Number : 1901042

Class :B

Courses : English for Math

Study Program : Mathematics Education – 2019

Task : Comment about the content of math or math education article

Tips For New Math Teachers

Gisele Glosser
1. Try not to frown on wrong answers. It discourages students from participating. Critical
thinking and honest effort are more important than correct answers.

2. There is no teaching without control of your class. It is better to fall behind by a day or two
early in the year to address discipline, than to have an uphill battle all year long over
behavior.

3. Avoid talking over your students. If there is too much noise in the classroom, sometimes
the best thing to do is to stop talking.

4. Routine and structure are good, but too much of it can cause you and your class to fall into
a rut. Try to vary activities from time to time.

5. Encourage active participation from your students. From time to time, call students to the
board, or allow them to work in groups. Avoid giving teacher-directed lessons all of the time.

6. Encourage active participation from your students. From time to time, call students to the
board, or allow them to work in groups. Avoid giving teacher-directed lessons all of the time.

7. Try to be flexible. Math can be a rigid topic, but you don't have to be. For example, I have
a strict rule against chewing gum. But I close my eyes to it during a test.

8. Try to spell out what topics will be on the test. Telling your students to "Study Chapter 6"
is not enough, especially if they have poor study skills.
9. In some schools, math is the only subject where students are grouped by ability (i.e.
homogeneously). This makes it stand out more than other subjects. Parents may frequently
ask: "Why didn't Johnny get an A in math? He got one in all his other subjects." Some
parents may insist that their child be placed in the top math group, even when the child does
not belong there.

10. If a student was present for all the material taught, but is absent on the day of the test,
then on the day the student returns, inform him/her of the make-up day and time. Don't let it
go more than a day or two. However, if the student missed part or all of the material taught,
you should give him a deadline by which to make up all missed work, and a new test date. It
may be helpful to contact the parent in this case. A student should not be penalized for being
absent. However, they can be penalized for failing to make up missed work.

11. I recommend a technique called "Front Loading". Students are most motivated to learn at
the beginning of the school year. Rather than reviewing material from the previous school
year, why not introduce a topic they haven't seen before?

12 Try to teach students good problem-solving skills. When your students enter the work
place, their superiors will not give them a worksheet with 25 least common multiple (LCM)
exercises. They will more likely have a scheduling problem that needs to be solved using
LCM concepts.

13. To motivate students, give out awards for both good academics and for good effort.

14. Do your best to be fair to students. You will earn their respect this way.

15. It is important to get support from a school administrator when it comes to difficult issues
such as math groupings. Ask that they be present at conferences with difficult parents.

16. The best motivator of all is connecting math to the real world. For example, when
teaching the metric system, have students bring in empty cartons and bottles from their
kitchen.

Source : Mathgoodies.com
COMMENT :

Previously, from this article I want to conclude, that there are 3 main points regarding or
about tips on becoming a fun math teachers. Involve :

 Creative Teaching
 Attitude as teacher
 Appreciation for students

In my opinion, these 3 points represent the points contained in the article.

The tips formulated in the article must be based on field facts. And the fact is the same with
what I felt when first time I met with mathematics in elementary school. In my mind, I think
mathematics is difficult, awful lesson, and so rigid, I think I will not be enjoy with this
lesson, but this lesson is often the dominant measure of student success in the learning
process.

About the teachers of this lesson, me and all of my friend have the same description of math
teachers, how many student call a math teaher as a ‘killer’?, that’s one of negative
assumption about math and especially math teachers. and now, how we can change negative
assumption to positive assumption towards mathematics. In this article explained tips on
becoming a professional and fun math teachers. if we assumption, teachers math as
masterminds and math as a puppet. The masterminds is the important point to conveying the
meaning of a show, same with teachers math, so we will trying to become fun math teachers,
so that students like with how we teach them and the materials of the lesson can be easily
understood by students.

One of tip that’s very interesting for me from this article, involved :

‘Do your best to be fair to students. You will earn their respect this way’

So, this article very useful for math teachers and math teacher candidates like me, can be
learn in advanced the tips according to the class atmosphere we teach and match with level of
education. Like this article, very informative.

For the last. I hope we can be professional and fun teacher, and always give benefit for
everyone with our knowledge.