Are You Not Entertained?

From the teachers that brought you, "Stand in front and lecture," and "Here's the answer now figure it out," comes "Everyone quiet whilst you work, I don't wanna hear any talking." Starring Generic Math Teacher, and a special guest by the Social Studies Department.

One of the largest perceived problems of math classes in high school, and, frankly, in college is that the lecture lifestyle is the life for the common teacher or professor. The variability in day to day teaching life is somewhat limited and the lifestyle becomes a staple in the everyday life of both students and teachers. Most movies purvey math classes as boring, and there's a large social stigma behind math because of the fact that it doesn't hold the interest in people who don't receive structure well. 

Something that I love to emphasize is a combination of fun activities, gamification, and lecture-style teaching in a course to help progress the students not just by them learning the subject, but also by piquing their interest in math. The coolest concepts in math can hold such significance. I specifically remember the day one of our math teachers came in to teach us imaginary numbers. She started in regular lecture style, then left, and returned with a tutu, a crown, and a magic wand, and graced us with imaginations large enough to comprehend imaginary numbers.

Whereas the structure behind lecture-style teaching correlates with the structured students, the theatre kids are left in the dust on occasion as their imagination isn't suited for the rigorous structure and boredom of everyday math lecturing. Therefore, the emphasis here is to not forget lecture-style teaching but to entertain the ideas of different activities to keep the students wanting more math rather than less of it.