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Mathematics and Life 35 How to attract children towards maths ? 1

 How to attract children towards maths ? 1

From Parent point of view


Here is a checklist of what Parents can do to attract children towards studies in general and maths in particular


  • Treat the child as a child. Children take time to understand things, developing their perception. Jean Piager, who did three decades of longitudinal study on how the mind develops, concluded that children learn to distinguish colours on their own not before 6 years of age. Just imagine the injustice we inflict on the tender brains to “prepare them” for Admission where we as parents, teachers, expect them to know colours, alphabate, tables to begin with.

  • Let the child develop her own perception of people, processes, subject matter. Give them enough loose rope. Oftentimes children buy fear towards maths from family. 

  • Like we adults, children do have mood swings. Do not expect them to be decent, dumb, yes sayings persons all the times. Like we tend to defy, deny, rebuke, boss, the children too. So, like we are not sacked in the first incident and are heard, treat children without being rude, over demanding, yelling, beating, striving them for food, clothes.

  • S/he is not your clone or marketing window to showcase your status. Please do not expect them doing too good each time to showcase their report cards or make them showcase counting skills to the visitors.

  • Empower them by playing with numbers, giving money to buy deals, make them keep accounts.

  • Ask them to estimate each other, family members’ height, weight, age of relatives, length of table, weight of cell phone, how much milk can come in a utensil. Make them write down. Then let them measure. Put all entries on a table and compare. It will boost their confidence as well as interest in the subject.

  • You can help develop concepts like half, one third etc, profit, loss, by asking to divide some toffees, pea nuts, match sticks, number of friends into groups. Making sale, purchases.

  • Once again, let the child enjoy it. Do not compare or put labels, or be judgemental about the outcome. Our purpose is to make the child enjoy, observe, her progress against herself. Once we start comparing, it again becomes something the child will start avoiding you for.

  • Develop good reading habits in kids as they are going to need language whole life. Moreover, after a level, say algebra stage, there is close relationship between language sense and maths performance. Morevso, in all standard competitive examinations, statement problems are there in the quantitative section as well. Forming equation, comprehending the data is the main issue.

  • All in all, treat the child performance in maths the way you,expect to be treated by the Boss in a job or by the Government Officials if you are in business 😀


Should you wish to revise / learn maths to teach your own kids and save money or to create additional income take our Maths for Parents Course


Dr Prakash Moghe

Beyond Abacus

7489447223

drpnmoghe@gmail.com

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