Modern Math Teacher- Teaching Strategies for High School and Middle School Math Teachers #83 Using AI to Engage Students Beyond the Classroom
Jan 21, 2025
Tips for connecting math to students’ lives and interests. Using AI to generate personalized, timely examples and pull real-world datasets. Sports and Super Bowl projects that use player stats and probability. Ideas for Google Trends, Kaggle, Google Sheets add-ons, and data simulation to make tasks relevant and hands-on.
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Choose Relevance Over Mere Realness
- Focus on relevance, not just reality, when choosing applications for a unit.
- Tailor exponential function lessons to timely concerns like student financial decisions.
Using Student Concerns About College
- Kristen ties exponential functions to student concerns about college and loans.
- She plans to use finance examples because her students are actively planning postsecondary paths.
Personalize Examples With AI
- Use AI like ChatGPT to personalize examples from student survey data.
- Feed survey results into AI to generate tailored, reusable lesson examples.