期刊名称：Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education
印刷版ISSN：1305-8223
电子版ISSN：1305-8223
出版年度：2018
卷号：14
期号：2
页码：605-607
DOI：10.12973/ejmste/76962
出版社：Pamukkale Univ Dept Sci Education
摘要：This poem likens learning mathematics to a boy who proposes love to a girl. In the
African culture, there are certain qualities of a girl that are considered when she is ripe
for being proposed to: outside physical appearance, hardworking capability and beauty
as well as inner qualities such as intelligence, good morals, faithfulness, loving and
feeling for others. However, there are challenges and obstacles encountered when the
boy proposes love. In this poem, the ‘learner’ of mathematics is the ‘boy’ whereas the
‘girl’ is mathematics itself. Suggestions for dealing with the challenges and obstacles
are hereby given. This poem can be dramatized or acted by teachers and their learners
in the mathematics classroom situation, or can be used as a motivational teaching
strategy by mathematics teachers or college lecturers.
