How cool would it be to have a teacher use music to teach like this LA teacher who uses rap to teach algebra.
Los Angeles math teacher LaMar Queen has been using Hip Hop to help his students memorize steps in solving algebra problems, and improve their grades, according to the Associated Press. A student of his Cindy Martinez says "It gets stuck in your head", I guess it would if you hear it over and over and if you love Hip-Hop. Well they should do that where I live and I might not fall asleep in class of boredizem.
Queen, 26, has won a national award for his approach, and now shows teachers and parents how to utilize his method."Math is a bad word in a lot of households," says Queen. "But if we put it in a form that kids enjoy, they'll learn."
The originallity of Queen's raps came after students told him his class was boring ( I can understand that). The students added that he looked like rapper Kanye West, and challenged him to rap.
Queen, who had been rapping since seventh grade - he'd put rhymes together while walking home from school in a Carson, a city neighboring LA, responded by writing a rap song called "Slope Intercept."
He must be really good if Kejon Closure, 13, whose grades changed from a C- average to an A.
Now math and music should equal a good and smart kid who loves learning.
Queen, who allows his students to appear in the music videos he makes as a reward for good behavior, encourages other life lessons as well, such as "be respectful. Listen to your parents."
"Let's talk about slope intercept/I don't mind if you interject/Just don't disrespect/I say, you have a question for me?/What's y equals mx + b?" rhymes Queen, who has launched a website, MusicNotesOnline, to market his rap CD and DVD.
Queen plans to expand his rap teaching method to other subjects.
LaMar Queen is a good teacher and other teachers should do the same in my opinon.
