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Mathematics and Life 32 Why do students fear maths ? 2

Why do students fear maths ? 2


I am listing different factors that each alone or together with one or more cause students develop a fear for maths in early stages of education. Order is not important as each person has different reason(s) 

It is natural to fear maths. When parents tell the child horrible stories of their maths teachers or how they feared maths, the child thinks there is nothing wrong with fearing maths. He even “finds” his own fresh evidences  

 Solution Parents, other elders need not negatively influence the tender, evolving brain of the child. Let the child have her own set of experiences. Let the child develop her own construct. A brief description of what is constructivism can be seen here 

  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r_LWNyNavIKaZAd5Tat3fLGBuAkd5lP_/view?usp=sharing.   

    Treating calculation skills alone as maths. This is the root cause of many unfortunate incidents. It is an established fact that different Intellectual capacities develop at different stages in each child. To give an example, once a “dumb” child who did not speak much till as late as 8 years, shook the British Government through his furious speeches - Jai Prakash Narayan. The overtly speaking comedy-drama show host Shekhar Suman used to hide to avoid meeting people. Same happens with kids. Many have high abstract thinking going on in their minds, they are lost in thoughts and do not understand the immediate. They are, for example, able to narrate incidences nicely, but are not good to fast calculations. 

           Solution As can be seen in the National Education Policy 

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1paRrvuKDx0C1BpnNa1xZqu-pwzfjClgI/view?usp=drivesdk, at the Policy level there is clarity to develop mathematical thinking at all stages. At the operational level, however, there is still lot to be done. All stake holders, parents, teachers, school management, have to wean themselves away from treating maths just as a computational tool. Beyond Abacus believes Mathematics is the science of recognising, understanding, appreciating, creating and using patterns in day to day life, business, sciences, work life, technology.

How to achieve this will be discussed in due course, but surely treating mathematics as just a computational tool creates wrong notion in children's tender, evolving, minds.


Please feel free to schedule a free consultation on your or friend’s kid mathematics level and how it can be made better. Message 7489447223, I will follow it. No visits needed, all online. 


Also, mathematics teachers or people willing to be mathematics teachers are welcome for free consultation on how to be a better maths teacher 7489447223. 


Dr. Prakash Moghe

Beyond Abacus

7489447223 (WhatsApp) 

drpnmoghe@gmail.com





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  1. UnknownFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:02 AM

    Very comprehensive article. We get an insight to understand that there are children of different intellect, and though everyone can't be good in mathematics but it never means that they can't think.

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    1. Dr Prakash MogheFebruary 16, 2021 at 9:05 AM

      Good observation, please feel free to contact 7489447223 to take things forward

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