This would be my speech for an english class, I would like you to sound "casual" but still making a speech. If the text is too long, feel free to record just a part of it. Thank you !
Hello! Welcome everybody, thank you to be here today! I’m Adele, and today I want to talk to you about mathematics and kids!
But first, let me give you some statistics: 6 out of 10 children do not learn or handle reading and mathematics with proficiency according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. So, what do that mean? It means that 617 million children and adolescent do not know how to use mathematics, even though they are at school, in class. 617 million, it is almost twice the US population. Yes, indeed, that IS a lot. That IS a problem. And I am asking you to solve it.
Why? Because that is your goal as our future job: we want to teach math to kids and do the best, so they love math, or at least understand it.
“How?” Will you tell me. Well, let me tell you about my project: I would like to set up a math classes association for struggling kids.
What would be the point? For them, helping them with their homework, lessons they are taking at school apparently not understanding very well. Just like that, it sounds boring. But here comes the “fun” part: you want to make math sound fun, enjoyable for them. How? Make up projects, games, interesting lessons, of course related to math. Use Fibonacci, Geometry, Gold number, math related to other scientific domains, anything, really. Also, don’t forget about math history, because in the end, mathematics have been more than a tool, and not a so difficult tool to use: it becomes easy once you know how to use it.
Now, what would you gain from this? Well, you want to be a teacher, or at least are studying for it. This experience would teach you empathy, and would make you understand that, again, mathematics are not naturally easy, it just only becomes easy. [Completer]
Why would you do this? Because it is such a great opportunity to try and use your proficiency to teach kids and share your passion for math. Because indeed, you are almost a 75% sure that these kids are here because they do love it, even though they do not fully understand it. Also, you are sadly not sure that your future students at school will be as fond of math as these kids. Finally, convincing kids to join your passion or at least knowing that thanks to you, they understood it even a little is really gratifying.
Now, of course, I have to mention girls in science.
Launching this project aiming to make kids love mathematics would also be a good time to explain again or for the first time to these little boys and girls sciences are not “for boys”, girls also are good at math, boys and girls can grow the exact same proficiency, actually. That was scientifically proven, over and over. However, studies found girls had higher levels of math anxiety and lower levels of confidence in their math skills. This means even when girls show similar performance levels to boys, they are often less sure of themselves. That is a second problem my association would aim to solve. This would be a huge step forward, as it would encourage girl to stick to math, by telling them they can do it, as long as they stay confident.
To complete this previous task, reminding girls they are legitimate to embrace a mathematics career or more generally a career in one of the STEM domains would be great. Girls are very welcome in sciences. And it is with their self-confidence that things will move, and the situation will evolve for the best: women are pretty much needed in scientific domains, first because they can be as good as men, and to encourage girls to embrace a STEM career.
If at this point, you are still not convinced, here are some more arguments:
I will explain you why we should encourage kids to get involved in scientific domains: 1) kids are the
future, 2) sciences are the future: those children have got to move ahead of their time + they are
quite sure to find job in whatever scientific domain they like, in the world we are living in, so, they
will need mathematics. At least at high school level which they always appreciate to get, even just on
an everyday basis. So, they need to focus and understand now, as kids, and you would be here for
that.
That’s all I wanted to say, at least for now. Please join my association, at this point you know why you
should.
Have a good day!
job vs. career [The text described the teacher’s desire to achieve a professional ideal: reversing a shocking disparity. In English, the word ‘job’ is used informally, but it also is a more superficial occupation. At a ‘job’, you worry about the hours, the pay, and the boss. You aren’t so concerned with noble ideals. By contrast, a ‘career’ is the profession that you study to pursue. It forms part of your identity.]
I added the word ‘that’ to a number of sentences. Although it is true that we can eliminate the relative pronoun in many cases, it can actually cause ambiguity. When there is any doubt, it is best to leave it in.
In English, we don’t use the colon (:) very frequently. We are much more fond of semicolons (;) and full stops (.)
Many of my changes were for style reasons, NOT because what you had written was wrong. Don’t be discouraged, I thought it was rather well written.