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How can we increase a person’s interest in some topic, a person’s excitement in studying this topic? Each student already has some topics about which he or she is excited, so a natural way to increase the students’ interest in the topic of study is to relate this topic to the topics about which the student is already excited.
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Kosheleva, O., Villaverde, K. (2018). How to Enhance Student Motivations by Borrowing from Ancient Tradition: Egyptian Fractions. In: How Interval and Fuzzy Techniques Can Improve Teaching. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55993-2_6
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