Children taking part in regular classroom discussions are quite similar to adults participating in business meetings. In both situations, if you have difficulty uncovering the relevance of the material as it applies to your situation, you will not care about it. If an adult cannot make the connections in a business meeting and does not care to impress coworkers and superiors, they are likely to tune it all out. If a student does not make the connection between knowing geometry and how it applies to their future, and they are not concerned with teacher praise, they will react in the same way as the adult.
Because we would rather our children are motivated by internal factors (the want to learn) rather than external factors (pleasing the teacher), we need to understand how to make the curriculum match the child. This can be quite easy. If a child wants to help build a bird house for the school's garden, they will happily sit through lessons on geometry if they understand how the......

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Title: Motivation Factor
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