Ask HN: What would be your approach to make maths easy* for age group 5-25 yrs?
Not just simple maths but complex concepts taught in high-school and at university level.
*easy ==> easy, exciting and approachable
*easy ==> easy, exciting and approachable
Some stories are just fun and could change the mood in a classroom! Did you knew Évariste Galois, one of the most influential mathematicians of all time, died very young in a duel? What about Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy?
But more importantly some of these stories could help to understands math problems better. Why people tried to solve this particular problem? And how did they manage to solve it?
++ Another useful thing would be this: making problems less abstract! Telling students about why this formula is important? Which physics problem it can solve? How could be related to real life? etc.
++ Fun math problems could be useful too. Raymond Smullyan books are an example. But I'm sure there are lots of other books...
Dropping some links:
Practical examples, like word problems, but concrete.
Or ask them what they want to know and work it out with them, self directed learning.