- According to the online dictionary, Mathematics may be define as : The study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols
Why are so many of
our students so mathematically afraid?
Many may blame the teachers for students not liking the subject. some of the reason may be :
- The student may have had past bad maths experience .The student may have answered the wrong answer in class, and being embarrassed by their teacher in front of the entire class. This may have caused student to not participate again in class, and in the long round having a fear of answering the wrong answers. Although this may not justify the true reason for many students to not like maths or be afraid of it.
- Some students may blame other teachers for their hatred towards math. This may be true in some cases, for example if a teacher does not like what he or she is teaching, then their attitude towards the lesson can affect students learning. The teacher wont put in efficient energy in the lesson causing it to be boring.Or the teacher may not want to teach the subject, and might just come to the class and give activities from the text book for students to struggle with, making the subject to appear as a punishment rather than an enjoyable subject.
- Because the subject is compulsory though out the primary and secondary school, the teacher is highly responsible in making the subject not feel as a boot camp, but as and amusement park. The use of different, easy and understandable strategies can help the students to enjoy and like maths. Rather than the pressure of having to learn and cannot run from it mentality
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