"Joy and enthusiasm provide essential components to build the motivation and perseverance needed to understand and succeed in math. Neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience research show correlations demonstrating children's math negativity adversely impacts their dedication and successful learning. Here, we'll suggest interventions to promote children's positive attitudes about math. Reduce Math Mistake Fear For most children, the biggest school fear is making a mistake in front of classmates. Help reduce mistake fear and increase your children's participation with activities where errors are part of the process."
"Children often don't take the time to estimate or check their answers, because their goal is to finish quickly and get the single correct answer. Reduce mistake fear by encouraging estimation from a young age and throughout their math years when you see the opportunity. You'll stimulate their interest and participation comfort. You can help reduce mistake fear and increase children's engagement with opportunities to make estimates...and revise them."
Parents can counteract harmful math stereotypes and foster positive emotional ties to math to transform children's learning from passive to active. Joy and enthusiasm build motivation and perseverance needed for understanding and success in math. Neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience research link children's negative attitudes about math to reduced dedication and unsuccessful learning. Interventions include reducing fear of mistakes through activities that make errors part of the process, encouraging estimation from a young age, and providing repeated, nonjudgmental estimation practice (for example, comparing estimated weights while shopping). Such practices increase participation, number sense, and confidence with mathematical thinking.
Read at Psychology Today
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]