Koay, S. T. (2022, March), The Art of Effectively Teaching Math to Engineering Students  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference, Prairie View, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--39207

\bibitem{asee_peer_39207}
  Koay, S. T. (2022, March), \emph{The Art of Effectively Teaching Math to Engineering Students}
  Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference, Prairie View, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--39207

Siew T.  Koay.  "The Art of Effectively Teaching Math to Engineering Students".  2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference, Prairie View, Texas, 2022, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2022.  https://peer.asee.org/39207 Internet.  21 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_39207}
  Siew T.  Koay.
  "The Art of Effectively Teaching Math to Engineering Students".
  \emph{2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference, Prairie View, Texas, 2022, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2022.
  https://peer.asee.org/39207 Internet.  21 Dec, 2024

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AB  - Throughout more than forty years of teaching an abstract subject like math to engineering students, I have been guided by a strong conviction that understanding concepts is the key to problem solving. Thus, I have striven to present the lectures with an emphasis on analytical, logical and intuitive thinking; geometric reasoning; and physical description in a way that is more congenial and receptive to engineering students. All the mathematical formalism and much of the interesting minutiae of the discipline, though are important and necessary to math students, are nonetheless secondary to our primary goal of getting the concepts across to the students so that they can solve problems by their own means. 

In this paper I discuss seven effective techniques to booster students’ motivation and confidence in learning mathematics. Each technique is specifically designed to achieve its own unique objective. The first indispensably important technique is to foster a positive relationship with the students in order to gain their trust in us and their willingness to follow us on their journey in learning math. The successive techniques are all geared to stimulate students’ interest and curiosity to build their motivation and confidence through introducing students to mathematical mysteries and counterintuitive problems with unbelievably surprising results. The last but yet very important technique is to assist students to discover patterns as “to understand is to discover”. Patterns are key factors in understanding mathematical concepts. Virtually mathematics is based on pattern and structure. 

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