How to stimulate students' interest in math

German educator Dissui pointed out that the art of mathematics does not lie in the teaching of skills, but in motivation, awakening, inspiration. In a lesson, some students learn active and lively, enjoyable; some students are not in the spirit of lethargy, this phenomenon is ultimately a matter of interest. Interest is the best teacher!

Learning math is also so? Cultivate students' interest in learning mathematics, for learning activities have important significance, it can help students to further clarify the social significance of mathematics learning, stimulate greater desire to learn and stronger learning motivation, the formation and development of interest is always linked to success, often successful activities, people are interested in it, cultivate students' interest in learning mathematics is an important psychological factor in learning activities. It can make students have tenacious pursuit and active exploration of mathematical knowledge. Cultivating interest should be carried out in the teaching process in conjunction with the teaching of mathematical knowledge.

I. Cognizance of the importance and necessity of mathematics learning, cultivating students' interest

Interest is the psychological tendency to strive to explore something or engage in some activity. It makes people give priority attention to certain things, active exploration, and with positive emotional coloring. Interest can be divided into direct and indirect interest. Direct interest is the interest in the thing or activity itself. For example, interest in painting, singing, etc. Indirect interest is the interest in an activity or in the activity itself, but in the results of the activity or the meaning of the thing. They can be seen to be interchangeable. Human interest is not born, it is formed and developed under certain conditions, and interest can be cultivated. That is to say, a person can only be interested in something to want to contact it, recognize it, understand it, explore it.

Second, to help students to correct the attitude of learning

, to establish confidence in learning math, motivation to learn

Entering the school of students, full of confidence and hope for learning. And as the content of math has increased, and greatly increased the difficulty and breadth. Although many students usually study hard, due to learning methods and other reasons, they do not quickly adapt to school life

. Through a period of study, coupled with a few tests are not ideal, they will doubt their own ability, that their brains are stupid, not learn math material, learning mood will soon be down, lost interest in learning mathematics. To address this situation, we should give students the facts, reasons, analyze the reasons to encourage students, so that students realize that their own shortcomings can be overcome. Usually ask questions, out of the examination paper, pay attention to the gradual and orderly progress, grasp the gradient, so that students can achieve good results, there is a sense of achievement in the heart, to let the students think that the math up is not as difficult as imagined, they only need to work hard, as long as they adhere to the pay is rewarded. Usually, the test, homework errors, to patiently help analyze the cause of the error, is careless or knowledge points mastery is not skilled enough, or other reasons. Then let the students to do similar exercises, to re-test, to enhance their self-confidence, so as to cultivate the students' interest in learning mathematics.

Three, the use of modern teaching methods, active classroom, from the senses to stimulate students' interest in learning

With the continuous development of modern educational technology, multimedia computer-assisted teaching will enter the classroom, the use of multimedia technology on text, sound, graphics, images, animation and other integrated processing and its powerful, interactive features of the preparation of teaching courseware, fully create a graphic, Sound and color, vivid and realistic teaching environment, so that students from the auditory, visual and other sensory contact to cultivate interest in learning. Advanced computer technology can inject vitality into the mathematics classroom teaching, brilliant colors, clear pictures, beautiful music, the dry didactic into a multi-sensory stimulation, so that the abstract becomes concrete, static becomes dynamic, unreal becomes real. Not only can create a real situation for students, but also can introduce students to the world of imagination, so that the teaching materials live up, so that the classroom also live up. In traditional teaching, students generally receive facts passively from the teacher, while multimedia software provides students with hands-on opportunities. Students learn mathematics as researchers, highlighting the student's main position, so that students change from listening to mathematics to doing mathematics, from passive learning to active learning, thus stimulating students' interest in learning.

Four, carefully created problem scenarios, the introduction of the realm of thinking, stimulate students' interest in learning

Creating an effective problem situation, can cause students' interest in learning, and promote students' active learning. And math comes from reality, exists in reality, applied to reality. Teachers in teaching, you can borrow the reality of the mathematical problems to create a problem situation, the example of life, so that students can easily understand and grasp. Let the students appreciate that mathematics has a great help to our lives, learning mathematics is useful, invariably produce the motivation to learn mathematics.

For example, when teaching the section of mathematical modeling, you can create such a problem situation. In the gas stove, under the same conditions, the same water to boil, the switch knob to what angle, in order to make the gas fuel used the least? In the teacher's inspiration to guide the point to induce, let the students hands-on to experiment. Through the collection of data, data fitting, to construct a mathematical model, to experience a practical problem into a mathematical problem mathematization process. Because mathematization is the process of organizing the real world mathematically. Mathematics socialization, the trend of social mathematization is increasingly obvious, many practical problems in the real world so not only to learn the theoretical knowledge of mathematics, but also to learn to think mathematically, the learning of mathematical knowledge flexibly applied to solve the problems in reality let from it. Experience the actual problem into a mathematical problem of mathematical and from symbols to concepts of mathematical, clump feel the joy of mathematical discovery, enhance the confidence of learning mathematics, the formation of the application of consciousness, innovative consciousness.

Fifth, the ingenious suspense caused cognitive conflict, give the success of the satisfaction, stimulate students' learning motivation

Desire is a tendency to recognize, study, and obtain some kind of psychological characteristics of a thing. In the learning process, you can set up suspense, so that the students of a certain knowledge to produce a kind of eager to understand the psychology, which can stimulate the students' desire to learn. For example: in the talk about the relationship between the roots of quadratic equations and coefficients of a lesson, the first to tell students a small story: one day, Xiaoming went to Xiaoli's home to see him, Xiaoli was solving quadratic equations related to the exercise, Xiaoming looked at which question to tell Xiaoli did wrong. Li was very surprised and asked Ming what the secret method of judgment was. At this point, I asked the students do you want to know this secret method? The students said in unison that they wanted to! , so the students were very interested in the end of the lesson.

Interest is a cognitive tendency with emotional color. In learning, students who are successful will produce a pleasant mood. This emotion occurs repeatedly, learning and pleasant emotions will establish a more stable link, students have a certain interest in learning. As the former Soviet educator Sukhomlinsky said: the joy of success is a great emotional force that promotes children's desire to study well. Please take care not to make this inner strength disappear in any way. (Advice to Teachers).

Sixth, training thinking, teaching methods, motivating students' interest in learning

Mathematics teaching can not be separated from solving problems. The famous American math educator Polya attaches great importance to the teaching of problem solving, he pointed out that mastery of mathematics means what? This is good at solving problems, and good at solving some of the requirements of independent thinking, rational thinking, insightful and inventive questions. He believed that a good teacher or student of mathematics should strive to secure a good appetite for problem solving. Problem solving necessitates thinking, and the right way of thinking is the key to improving problem solving skills. In teaching problem solving, teachers should strengthen the cultivation of intuitive thinking and emphasize the cultivation of mathematical conjecture ability while fully revealing logicalized thinking. Teach them to multi-directional, from the perspective of the problem of the method, encourage them to new and different, wide open the way, from which to explore the best solution, so that they are constantly innovating to stimulate interest.

Seven, pay attention to teachers and students emotional exchange, do friends, enhance learning interest

The traditional teacher-student relationship is I - he type. Teachers in the classroom, the students can only be passive acceptance of knowledge or mechanical training, this practice binds the students' thinking and hands and feet, so that they gradually lost interest in learning. An educator once said that in today's Chinese classroom, sitting is the student, standing is the gentleman. And in the spirit of this situation is exactly reversed, standing is Mr. occupies the supreme position, while sitting in the student's body but hides a trembling standing or even kneeling soul. This unequal status between teachers and students and teaching method, more difficult to achieve the mutual communication of the heart, more can not achieve the desired effect on learning.

Modern teacher-student relationship is a kind of I - you intersubjectivity dialog relationship. This relationship in essence reflects a true sense of human relations. Teachers and students are an equal relationship, each other is mutually reinforcing, mutual communication, mutual dialog, mutual transformation. Teachers should be more concerned about their learning and extracurricular life, and they talk more, talk about family life, more understanding of the situation of students, and close the distance between them, so that students think that the teacher is not only the transmitter of knowledge, but also the life of a listener, encountering difficulties in the puzzle. Harmonious, healthy teacher-student relationship is conducive to mobilizing students' motivation to learn, so that the students' respect and love for the teacher, will be emotionally transferred to like to learn the subject of mathematics.

In short, there are many ways to cultivate students' interest in learning mathematics. As long as diligent thinking, the courage to explore, close contact with the students' life, and constantly change the teaching methods, you can make students realize the importance of mathematics, so that students feel the infinite charm of mathematics, from the so-called boring and tasteless to liberate, into the realm of its joyful mathematics. Let students take the initiative to learn in a positive attitude to maintain the persistence of interest in mathematics learning. Of course, there is no definite way to teach, in the teaching of mathematics to consciously cultivate students' interest in learning mathematics, teaching for fun, its significance is far-reaching, is the need for the development of the situation of educational reform, the connotation is very rich, in addition to the above should pay attention to the above problems, more problems remain to be solved in practice, to be further explored by our research.