Lean
Lean asks:
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What do you think about teaching Christian values in mathematics?
I'm Alex taking up Secondary Education major in Mathematics. Since Mathematics mostly deals with the numbers and etc. As a Christian, personally, I love to integrate Christian values through teaching. In my opinion integrating values while teaching is a great help for the students to develop christian attitudes like learning how to be patience, or learn how to apply problem solving on everyday life and to to manage their time wisely.
 
Alexis Caducio
Manila, Philippines
In Topics: Helping my child with math
42 days ago

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dgraab
Oct 14, 2009
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Hi Alexis,
 
At a U.S. public school, a teacher would need to consider that his/her students may come from multiple religious backgrounds. The U.S. Constitution grants religious freedom, and not every student is a Christian. So teaching values labeled as Christian during a math lesson could potentially infringe upon the rights of (and make uncomfortable) the atheists, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and other students in the classroom who aren't Christian.
 
As a parent of a child in such a classroom, I'd request from the teacher more information about how the Christian religion pertains to the facts of the math lessons, and how that teaching would help my student learn basic math facts and meet state standards for math skills. Unless associated with a numerical word problem or statistical analysis, the examples you gave sound more like life skills lessons, and could apply to values across multiple religions (not just the Christian faith).
 
To focus on Christianity in your lessons, you might consider teaching math at a Catholic private school or a Christian institution where parents and students can expect the Christian faith to be incorporated into the curriculum.    
 
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soulavenue
soulavenue writes:
hello there sir! I definitely agree with your opinion regarding integrating christian values to math. I must say that Math is not an easy subject that's why it requires patience in problem solving and not only that,it takes a lot of effort. Most of the time,problem solving also applies in real life but Mathematics is very useful in our daily life. It is interesting yet exciting!
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