Annual – 1970 – Active Learning in Mathematics
Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association
91 – 101
Designing Action Mathematics for Low Ability Students
Eugene Wasylyk and Eugene Wasylyk
INTRODUCTION
All of us probably have felt the frustrations of working with low ability groups of mathematics students. They seem frustrated, almost ready to fail, and hence often become resentful of the authority a teacher standing in front of them represents. Yet if we consider ourselves teachers, we have to believe that such students want to learn and in particular want to learn mathematics if given a real opportunity.