Humanizing Mathematics in a Challenging World

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Byline: EDUARDO P. GARROVILLAS Jose Rizal University

MATHEMATICS is the easiest subject to learn and master; contrary to popular notion that it is the most difficult and complicated. In my view, the teachers are the ones making it difficult; because most of them have not learned to tame and humanize the numbers. This paper then is about humanizing mathematics. Humanizing our teaching approach goes for other subject disciplines as well, whether its economics or engineering, physics or physical education, etc. We should teach life when we teach our subject. And when we teach life, we should talk about people, planets, and productivity. This will put the global context into our teaching.

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