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.
