Abstract (eng)
Motivating pupils is one of the most important and also most challenging tasks of teachers. Therefore, literature offers a range of motivating actions, which are suggesting different approaches. Among those, one is ‘real-life applications’ during lesson, which demonstrate the connection between Mathematics and real life. From
a pedagogic-psychological point of view, the introduction to a new topic is crucial for motivating and sparking the interest of the students.
In the course of this thesis, motivation through non-mathematical contexts in the first part of a lesson will be investigated from a didactics’ point of view. Within the context of the theory, functions, didactical aspects and criteria of suitable introductions to new topics will be analyzed. What is more, theories of learning motivation, features of a motivating lesson and selection criteria for realistic tasks in Math lesson will be discussed. This theoretical background will be the basis for the second part of the thesis, where examples of lesson starts will be presented. Those examples, which try to connect important aspects of motivation and realistic contexts, will be analyzed in detail.