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Motivating Number Fumblers

Monograph No. 2: September 1974

MATHEMATICS TEACHING – The State of the Art

Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association

34 – 42

Motivating Number Fumblers

STANLEY J. BEZUSZKA

The low achievers, underachievers and reluctant learners need motivation more than anything else in mathematics. Frequently, these students are mentally capable of performing the required tasks but are not interested and, consequently, neither concentrate nor apply themselves.