Pay Them Kids
The best way for students to start doing homework is to start paying them! The founder and CEO of Mathspace Mohamad Jebara in his TED talk “This company pays kids to do their math homework”, is suggesting that the best way to get students to do homework is through a money incentive. Jebara supports this claim by narrating his once personal struggle with math and how he found a new appreciation for it, he then provides statistics of how many high school students struggle and don’t follow through. His purpose is to improve student engagement with mathematics in order to change the decline of students who aren’t understanding the subject. He establishes a friendly, informal relationship with his audience at his TED talk and for anyone who watches it. Jebara’s tells his viewers that math is a need to know subject through the use of worry for the future generation, statistics, and a humorous personal story.
One of the messages Mohammed Jebara is trying to portray is that many students are falling behind in math and they are lost after. Once students get to this point, they don’t have the motivation to carry on. He tells us, “we need students to stick around long enough through the difficult parts to appreciate the beauty when it all ties together.” (2:53) Jebara is telling his audience that math is an important subject that people need to understand more than ever. As time progress into the modern age, students need to keep up with the latest technologies in order to advance in the future. Jebara states a quote by the mathematician Francis Su, “We study mathematics for play, for beauty, for truth, for justice and for love.” He believes mathematics should be studied for the want to learn more. Recently students have been saying the opposite of Francis Su. When Jebara realized the drastic amount of people who are finding less interest in mathematics, he decided to do something about it.
Work Cited
Mohamad Jebara-https://www.ted.com/talks/mohamad_jebara_this_company_pays_kids_to_do_their_math_homework/up-next?language=en This Company Pays Kids To Do Their Math Homework
Alan's Writing Blog 