Section 2: Fun Class Game

Here are simple class game to overcome boredom:

Factor It In

Formation: Students divided in 4 groups and each group is sent to a corner of the

room.

Equipment needed: 4 pieces of scrap paper labelled 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Directions:

1. Teacher labels each corner of the room with one of the pieces of scrap paper.

2. Teacher calls out a number that is a multiple of 2, 3, 4, and 5.

3. Students in a corner that is a factor of that number will move to another

corner.

4. Movements include:

àJumping, Skipping, Walking, Hopping on one foot, Marching

5. Example- If teacher calls out 6, students in corners labelled 2 and 3 will move

to another corner.

Variations:

1. Have students move to a corner labelled with a factor of the number called. If

a prime number is called, have students move to center of the room.

Two-Dice Sums

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Section 1: Boredom is the bridge to be happy in learning mathematics

How to overcome boredom in learning mathematics and make it more fun, interesting and challenging.

Boredom is a complex case and problem today. There are many reasons that support to be bored. The most common one is that you have no idea what to do. The Other reasons because you feel lazy, tired or just don't want to do the things that are available for you to do. Maybe you have ideas about somethings but you guess that you can't do the things you want to do. Boredom becomes a great concern when it results in procrastination, indecision and feeling listless and jaded.

Yesterday, I was teaching mathematics for 2nd level of Junior High School student. “Oooo, what will we learn today?”, I shouted. “How about multiplying exponentials?”, They answered. “Ok, let’s start with that”. I began with multiplying exponential. I asked, ”do you understand with this material, Multiplying exponentials?”. And then he said “emm...... just a little bit”. Maybe for them, this materials is very difficult. “Why?”, I said. Then he answered “I’m still confuse, it’s so complicated to understand, then I’m bored, sir”. It was probably difficult to understand for students because of boredom especially.”.

From the above case study, we concluded that if the methods using in a learning process are not adaptive, suitable, and also appropriate to learning target, then boredom would be dominated inside.

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