Five burning questions for teachers and students of math

Teacher
1. How have you motivated students who are not naturally excited about math?

2. Do you make use of different technologies in your class to encourage different learning styles, if so what are they and how do you implement them?

3. How do you feel about the current math curriculum, what is good what isn’t? Do you feel that there is a growing disconnect between math 12 and what is expected/necessary for first year university math?

4. From the time that you started teaching in a high school until now, have you ever been bored? If so, how did you deal with the issue of boredom?

5. When do you plan to retire? Do you plan do go into administration?


Student
1. Do you think mathematics is useful in life? why/why not?

2. Why do you think students dislike or like math?

3. When learning math does it help to see real life applicable examples and applications or is it enough to know that something works and to see an example of it whether or not it has an obvious application?

4. What would you change about the way mathematics is being taught if any?

5. Would doing group research projects be helpful and is it something that would make your math class more enjoyable for you?

Here are our group's five questions.
Group: Mathew, Niyaz, and myself.