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I hate math with numbers and calculations. My math result at school is very low. I never think that I can be good at math and I also don’t want to learn it. My parents usually yell me about my studying but I don’t care.

My only interest is playing games and games. I spend almost my free time on finding and playing new games. I like discovering new kinds of games and introducing them to my friends. One day, I found a new kind of game but unfortunately, its name is top math games. Oh my god, it relates to thing I hate most since I was born.

I think in my mind I will switch off it immediately, I don’t want to see anything relating to math but I am still curious about what it is and how to play it. After thinking twice, I decide to try playing it once. Wow, that’s amazing because it has a lot of kinds in math game like other types of games.

I begin with the game about SpongeBob, my favorite cartoon character. It is the game to practice memory by choosing two same pictures to get one mark. It attracts me at the first level because I like challenge games, I want to upgrade my level rapidly. I pay attention to each picture and find the same pairs. I have finished this game for over one hour. I’m very happy and I try playing with other games at topcoolmathgames.com and realize a lot of interesting things.

Maybe you don’t believe but I can remember much more than before. From games to subjects at school, I can remember more numbers and calculations in math. I like math a little bit. With other kinds of games like skill, numbers, strategy, shape and colors, logic, memory, etc help me different aspects in math. Surprisingly, my result in math is higher and higher and it makes my parents happy and proud of me. They asked me the reasons and I answered them that because of math games. It’s funny but it’s true to me.

If there is anyone who doesn’t like math like me, why don’t you try playing top cool math games like me? They will bring you many interesting and amazing things. Let’s try and enjoy! 

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Abstract maths easier, not harderFriday, 25 April 2008 Julie SteenhuysenReutersIntroducing students to new concepts using abstract maths, rather than real-world examples, makes them better problem solvers, new research showsFrustrated maths students may have a good excuse. Some teaching methods meant to make maths more relevant may be making it harder to understand, US researchers say.They say students who are taught abstract maths concepts fare better in experiments than those taught with real-world examples.Adding extra details makes it hard for students to extract the basic mathematical concepts and apply them to new problems, they say."We're really making it difficult for students because we are distracting them from the underlying maths," says Jennifer Kaminski from Ohio State University, whose study appears today in the journal Science.The findings cast doubt on the widely used practice of using friendly, concrete examples to teach abstract maths concepts.For example, a teacher might use a bag of coloured marbles to explain probability, or teach a formula about distance with the classic example of two trains departing from different cities and travelling at different speeds."The danger with teaching using this example is that many students only learn how to solve the problem with the trains," Kaminski says.Symbols or examples?To find out the best methods of teaching basic maths concepts, the researchers conducted several experiments using college students in which some students were taught concepts using basic symbols, while others were taught with concrete examples.For example, they studied different approaches at teaching the basic mathematical property of commutativity.This means that you can switch up the order of elements and still get the same answer, as in 3 + 2 or 2 + 3 equals 5.Some students learned the concepts using generic symbols. Others were taught with concrete examples such as pictures of measuring cups filled with liquid, or slices of pizza or tennis balls in a container.While all of students mastered these concepts easily, the students who first learned maths concepts using abstract symbols were better able to transfer that learning to other problems when tested.End of real-world examples?That is not to say story problems should disappear.Kaminski says story problems offer a good way to test whether a student has mastered the abstract concept."Story problems aren't out, but they are probably not the way we want to go about introducing concepts or problem solving," she says."That would be best done through symbolic maths."Wouldn't have thought that it would be this way.... The bad thing is that maths will become even more impersonal :( I guess that's a small price to pay to transpose maths to real-life situations better, but that's boring.So let's rename it "b = Σ(a,a) / {a = 2, b = 5)" for today, even if it sound less catchy...
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