Understanding math is an important and useful life skill, and most of us suck at it. In an effort to make math cool, many teachers resort to appropriating music and cultures in awkward ways. It's a long-standing tradition among educators who have watched too much Good Will Hunting and Stand and Deliver. They want to make numbers hip and edgy and almost always fail. Kids are good at detecting phonies.But at least one math teacher in Jacksonville, Florida is the realist. Nadine S. Ebri at La Core Christian Academy is shining example of how to successfully make math fun. In a video, Ebri's class can be seen krumping to the rhythmic song of long division order of operations. The words are catchy as heck, and may very well qualify the class for both a Grammy nomination and the Nobel Prize for Mathematics.
Firstly, the featured girl and boy are obviously great dancers. Kudos to the girl for correctly solving the equation on the board while crushing out some moves. We assume the boy also long divided after nailing the dab and roll. This is a lesson in how to make learning engaging. It's all about letting the kids lead the fun, while the teacher provides the base knowledge and simply encourages them. If Pythagoras had taken his theorem of fundamental geometry among the three sides of a right triangle and put that to a trap beat, we'd be on Mars by now. Nerds should be celebrated like famous rappers or athletes. Bless Ebri and her math class.
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