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Mathematics and Life 31 Why do students fear maths ? 1

Why do students fear maths ? 1


Mathematics is the science of recognising, understanding, appreciating, creating and using patterns in day to day life, business, sciences, work life, technology.

Why do students fear maths ? 

Finding an all inclusive, commonly agreed answer to this question itself is a very big task which innumerable scholars, parents, researchers, teachers have been doing since time immortal and will continue to do till humanity survives. 

Within my limit of knowledge, experience, exposure, I would like to put the problem in a bigger, wider, perspective and it may some posts to answer it. My orientation will be more towards being grounded, realistic in assessing the issue as well as suggestions to solve it.

Some bigger issues I will compare the issue of school kids being unable to be good at Maths with the adults being not good at spoken, written English.

  • All wish to be good at it, but few are actually good

  • All wish to be good at it, but few are doing something about it.

  • All realise that it will be a game changer if they could do it, yet few do it

  • There is more than enough high quality free content, training, coaching available on the internet, still people pay - worse still do not learn anything even after paying. 

  • Peers, siblings, friends, parents all want me to do something about it, but no one can actually do anything about it.


Coming to being good at school mathematics, there two distinct ways to look at it. 


  1. Mathematical ability as a product We want our child to be good at maths in school tests, in showcasing fast calculations in presence of friends, relatives (the Abacus system’s core reason to exist), Once you start treating mathematical ability as a product, in a way you start treating the child as something in the market, in competition with others. Then, naturally, you want you pressurise the product to outperform others. You have to compare product features, anyhow make it the best. You start experimenting various marketing strategies, training interventions (different schools, tutors, coaching) to get the best value for your money. …..very unfortunately, just under peer pressure and or to showcase their money power, parents force kids struggling with maths till . 10th to take IIT coaching even going out of town. The Abacus business model and what it brings with it lies in this category.

  2. Mathematical ability as a process Here, due time is given to the child to internalize the process, develop the construct. If we study the actual curriculum recommended by NCERT for the formative year classes, you will find in entire year in standard I, the child is supposed to know counting till 20 only. Why ? Because she is supposed to able to develop perception, visualisation, imagination of the numbers and not just mechanically add, subtract, multiply and divide. Beyond Abacus believes firms in the process approach.


Please feel free to schedule a free consultation on your or friend’s kid mathematics level and how it can be made better ?

I also welcome and train adults wanting to revise, upskill, refresh their maths basics to teach own kids or take tutoring as a side hassel.


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Dr. Prakash Moghe

Beyond Abacus

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drpnmoghe@gmail.com



Comments

  1. UnknownFebruary 15, 2021 at 8:23 AM

    Today's blog has given me a clear insight about the difference between the two trends. I as a child have undergone the same pressure, but as a mother, may be due to peer pressure, had been repeating same mistake. Today I realized that there could be other methods to handle thee problems.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 15, 2021 at 9:43 AM

    Sir you beautifully compared and showed the difficulties faced by the children through it. From this itself everyone could understand you are an amazing mathematics teacher still now. What I could understand that for every concept there is a life situation for you to connect. In my view every maths teachers should do like this. Then the teaching learning process will be more fruitful 🥰.

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    1. Dr Prakash MogheFebruary 15, 2021 at 11:06 AM

      Thanks for the deep understanding of core issue, unusual for me to read. Let's interact further. Please message 7489447223 for more personal interactions

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  3. UnknownFebruary 15, 2021 at 12:33 PM

    Good morning sir,, jus before reading this blog,, I with my colleague waz discussing the same. As today it was maths preboards exam in my school... N the state of students was..... Just Blank...
    They were hopeless 😭😭😭😭.
    All rhe teachers said that they had been styding thru out the year... Then you r they not able to do the exam....
    And your blog is the answer Sir.

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    1. Dr Prakash MogheFebruary 15, 2021 at 12:59 PM

      Very unfortunate, but true. Feel free to message 7489447223 to interact further

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