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6. How to Enhance Student Motivations by Borrowing from Ancient Tradition: Egyptian Fractions

verfasst von : Olga Kosheleva, Karen Villaverde

Erschienen in: How Interval and Fuzzy Techniques Can Improve Teaching

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

How can we increase a person’s interest in some topic, a person’s excitement in studying this topic? Each student already has some topics about which he or she is excited, so a natural way to increase the students’ interest in the topic of study is to relate this topic to the topics about which the student is already excited.

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Metadaten
Titel
How to Enhance Student Motivations by Borrowing from Ancient Tradition: Egyptian Fractions
verfasst von
Olga Kosheleva
Karen Villaverde
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55993-2_6