IF IT’S MATHEMATICS – IT SHOULD BE HUMOROUS: NON-TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO TEACHING MATHEMATICS AT TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS
Journal Title: Молодь і ринок - Year 2018, Vol 165, Issue 10
Abstract
The article is devoted to the issue of changing the atmosphere of the students’ audience to make it unobtrusive, to get rid of routine and restrained formality, on the other side, psychological and intellectual freedom and creativity should prevail not only among the approaches to teaching various math materials, but also in relationships between a teacher and students, between groupmates. The means, which can implement the mentioned intends, is humour. The drollery and humour as its direct manifestation are based on paradoxical thinking; non-traditional approach to things, so mathematics requires namely them, as the successful mastering of its “secrets” necessarily provides daring thoughts, looking for non-traditional ways of solving any math problems, ability to combine externally non-interconnected elements to find their essence. Making humorous situation, while presenting lecture materials or conducting practical workshops, increases the emotional tone of classes, facilitates the perception and awareness of math knowledge due to the pun-based and humorous form of its presentation (the point about the role of Euler circles while studying geometric circuits makes its understanding more accessible if one tries to imagine them before “Euler’s eyes”). Addressing to humorous tasks (their content is based on the principle of grotesque) can be appropriate when drawing function schedules is carried out through comprehension of the phrase: “Love is a curved line that is going through the heart, costs the packet and finally goes sideways!” Humour is also useful for avoiding psychological conflicts. So the story about J. Danzig, who managed to solve two unsolvable in ancient time problems, serves as background to make shirker students understand the irony of the message to miss classes more often. The “humorous” pauses can take place during the class time; they provide a kind of rest while doing intense mental and intellectual activity. To understand the laws of “golden-section search” and scope of its application, it’s appropriate to appeal to looking at a caricature of human body and later, based on the equation x2 – x – 1 = 0, remove the deliberate caricature of the picture. Thus, mathematics teacher is equipped with the sufficient amount of humorous techniques which can be successfully used and cause the desirable didactic effect of the classes.
Authors and Affiliations
Oleksandr Koshelyev, Valeriy Syrotenko
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