Paying kids to do their homework

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When we think about Mathematics, do we consider it as a subject, a real world or a complex world? Who knows? MoharmadJebara felt his world came down when studying complex numbers, and the teacher asked him to do a square root of a negative. He went puzzled. “Impossible”, he thought. Not in a real world. And, there it is the solution, it can be done in the complex world, and the solution is the imaginary number “i”. Where, what is the imaginary or abstract world in maths? I could finally understand how useful mathematics were in life.

He realized it was going to be a hard work but he proposed himself to find the way students could understand and enjoy with it. In order to get his aim, he believed that the curriculum had to change and students should endure long enough the most difficult parts to appreciate the magnificence of numbers.

Moharmad built a web app to help students with maths. First, he tried with gamification elements, later incentivizing young students with trophies and older ones with cash. It worked, indeed. But, was it ethical? Would the results be kept up if the students were no longer paid?Was it the solution to see the magnificence of maths?

The main interest of this app is to get students involved in this skill. Mathematics is not only a subject you study at school but a human effort which will help to understand the world. So, the miracle of mathematics will be the stimulus and the comprehension will be the reward.

REMEMBER:

The English “th” can be pronounced in two different ways:

  • As a voiced dental fricative: “this, the, with” : / ð /
  • As an unvoiced dental fricative: “mathematics, thought”: / θ /

VOCABULARY

Endure: persevere, keep going

Trophies: rewards, tokens

Keep up: continue, maintain


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