Question

Which learning or instructional theories would you consider for teaching beginning algebra to 14- and 15-year-old students? Why? How would this choice differ from the theories you would select for teaching foreign language or social studies to the same group of students? Why?

Answer 1

Language and science or maths study to a large extent. I am myself a foreign language tutor. Maths or any science is universal, it has got fixed equations, no matter of country, language, religion etc. For 2 + 2 =4 same would in Chinese or german or any other language. Whereas The language has a lot of impact of thinking, habits, the language to a large extent also tells about the nation of any country.

Hence instructional theory for algebra would be to do step by step equation. To assume x as the finding factor in esp. in algebra. The language used is only about the numbers. Whereas in teaching a foreign language to 13-14 year old would involve understanding their moter tongue intially. As any foreign langugae can be best communicated through native language or any language used. This would involve understanding of the thumb rules, teaching intresting facts about the country, grammatical rules to make the things and the language more concrete or to give it a base. Any student would apply his own logic of language first, and it is necesar to deal with these differences or to explain these differences to students very softly. Hence teaching any language would also involve showing them any movie clip,introducing map of the country etc.