Here is a timely essay about an affliction that is way too prevalent and perhaps approaching epidemic proportions. There is also an interactive quiz at the end of the article. Your thoughts?
The Article was very interesting, it made me reflect on my own life and what could have given me such Math anxiety. My Dad was always pretty much a human calculator, but my Mom was and still is just like me, completely inept at math without a calculator or fingers to count on. Dad did used to help me with my homework a lot, so maybe that caused it, but I wouldn't know for sure. I can also understand parental anxiety when it comes to new methods of doing math, I personally find the common core to be utterly ridiculous. I took the quiz at the bottom of the article too, my score was a 30, I was expecting a higher one, though perhaps it was my interpretation of the questions.
I found this article very interesting because as a young child I was never good at math, but on the other hand my mom was very good at math, numbers and calculations. This article made me realize that if my mom hated math as much as I did, I would have never received the proper help. She would always show me an easier way to solve the problem or the correct way to start the problem. She would help me understand what the problem was asking. I think the key aspect of adult "math anxiety" is the new way of teaching math. Parents look at their child's math homework and are extremely confused from the start because they do not know how to answer the question in the manner presented. I liked the idea of using numbers in everyday life at home. It will show children math is important because you use it everyday in simple daily task and it is not to be feared.
I found this article to be very interesting. As a kid, I didn't like math very much because I felt I wasn't very good at it. I just assumed that I would be the English kid while my brother was the math kid who took after my mom. However, with the help of my mom and my 6th grade teacher, I got better at math. Although I still much rather write an essay than do fractions or percents, I'm slowly realizing that maybe math isn't so bad. One of the points that I found to be the most intersting in this article was the statement from Harris Cooper. As teachers, we want parents to be involved in what their child is doing in school and one way for parents to get involved is through helping their child with their homework. However, how can teachers expect parents to help their children if the parents themselves need help with it? This is why I liked the idea of parents using "math behavior" at home. Something as simple as playing a game like grocery store can show just how important math is due to its daily use and can help to ease the "math anxiety" both children and parents may have.
I thought this article was very interesting. Being someone with high anxiety, the last thing I would want to do would be to put my anxiety onto someone else such as a child or a student. I want to be able to help my students and make them feel confident that they could do the work too. However, I also disagreed with this article. My dad was always very good at math and my mom was always willing to help me the best she could. They would sit with me for hours going over my homework, trying to help me but I would still go into class every day so scared of math. I believe that it is more on how you view the subject to begin with and my parents had no affect on whether I did well or not.
I found this article very interesting, I never realized how much of an impact parents can have on their students while helping them with homework. It is also amazing to see that people have caught on to this problem and there are ways to help. People stress out when they hear the work "math" but it really is not something to stress out over because it needs to be done. We use math everyday. The problem is with the math changing so much that parents never learned how to do math the way their children are being thought so it is close to impossible for them to help, which can cause the child to adapt to the math anxiety which is very real.
The Article was very interesting, it made me reflect on my own life and what could have given me such Math anxiety. My Dad was always pretty much a human calculator, but my Mom was and still is just like me, completely inept at math without a calculator or fingers to count on. Dad did used to help me with my homework a lot, so maybe that caused it, but I wouldn't know for sure. I can also understand parental anxiety when it comes to new methods of doing math, I personally find the common core to be utterly ridiculous. I took the quiz at the bottom of the article too, my score was a 30, I was expecting a higher one, though perhaps it was my interpretation of the questions.
ReplyDeleteI found this article very interesting because as a young child I was never good at math, but on the other hand my mom was very good at math, numbers and calculations. This article made me realize that if my mom hated math as much as I did, I would have never received the proper help. She would always show me an easier way to solve the problem or the correct way to start the problem. She would help me understand what the problem was asking. I think the key aspect of adult "math anxiety" is the new way of teaching math. Parents look at their child's math homework and are extremely confused from the start because they do not know how to answer the question in the manner presented. I liked the idea of using numbers in everyday life at home. It will show children math is important because you use it everyday in simple daily task and it is not to be feared.
ReplyDeleteI found this article to be very interesting. As a kid, I didn't like math very much because I felt I wasn't very good at it. I just assumed that I would be the English kid while my brother was the math kid who took after my mom. However, with the help of my mom and my 6th grade teacher, I got better at math. Although I still much rather write an essay than do fractions or percents, I'm slowly realizing that maybe math isn't so bad. One of the points that I found to be the most intersting in this article was the statement from Harris Cooper. As teachers, we want parents to be involved in what their child is doing in school and one way for parents to get involved is through helping their child with their homework. However, how can teachers expect parents to help their children if the parents themselves need help with it? This is why I liked the idea of parents using "math behavior" at home. Something as simple as playing a game like grocery store can show just how important math is due to its daily use and can help to ease the "math anxiety" both children and parents may have.
ReplyDeleteI thought this article was very interesting. Being someone with high anxiety, the last thing I would want to do would be to put my anxiety onto someone else such as a child or a student. I want to be able to help my students and make them feel confident that they could do the work too. However, I also disagreed with this article. My dad was always very good at math and my mom was always willing to help me the best she could. They would sit with me for hours going over my homework, trying to help me but I would still go into class every day so scared of math. I believe that it is more on how you view the subject to begin with and my parents had no affect on whether I did well or not.
ReplyDeleteI found this article very interesting, I never realized how much of an impact parents can have on their students while helping them with homework. It is also amazing to see that people have caught on to this problem and there are ways to help. People stress out when they hear the work "math" but it really is not something to stress out over because it needs to be done. We use math everyday. The problem is with the math changing so much that parents never learned how to do math the way their children are being thought so it is close to impossible for them to help, which can cause the child to adapt to the math anxiety which is very real.
ReplyDelete