Introduction
Math has been a horror for many students, but it can be fun when we understand it correctly. Why are we always trying to escape from it? Look around you, and then you can find math everywhere.
How to help a child struggling with math
- Understand or study in your own way
Each child is different. They do the same problem differently. So, find your own way to learn.
- Keep a separate book for math.
Always keep a separate book for studying the essential arithmetic concepts, formulas, and equations.
- Parental involvement:
Parental involvement is crucial for developing a child’s math skills, especially at the pre-primary stage.
- Study from day-to-day life and connect the concepts to real-world activities.
When we are cooking, we should participate kids for taking measurements. For example, while in cake baking, they can take measurements and mix the ingredients. By doing this, they have fun and learn measurements, temperature, and weighing.
- Learn basics thoroughly
Everyone should be thorough with the basics from younger ages. Otherwise, they cannot understand concepts in a higher grade. If we have no strong basics, it won’t be accessible in the growing stages.
- Parents’ attitude towards math
Parents’ negative attitudes will affect the child’s attitude. If a parent has a negative attitude towards math, the child might also have a negative attitude. Parents should try to increase their child’s overall achievement in math mainly through fun.
- Identify problem areas
There are some problems where the answers are straight. There are some areas where there is a need for some maths skills to solve the problem.
- Find a good teacher.
Most parents are working parents, so they have no time to sit with their children, so it is better to find a good teacher. Some of the parents are not familiar with the math concepts, or they are not highly educated.
- Identify any possible learning disability.
All children are different. Some of them can learn the language subjects more quickly than math. So, parents should identify if their child has a learning disability
- Topics are interrelated
Math is not strictly a theoretical subject. For example, concepts like Trigonometry and Geometry are interrelated. Even though they are different sections, there is a relationship between the concepts.
- Practice!!
Do not learn maths by heart if we practice more then there will be more improvement. Understand the concepts clearly and practice the problems from the same ideas.
- Math is our friend, not our enemy.
It is easier for the students to score full marks than other subjects if they know the concepts.
- Visualize the concept
While teaching math to younger children, visualization makes learning fun. For example, we can compare the decimal system to the beads in a necklace.
- Fix a consistent time for studying math
The timings may be morning or evening. We should fix at least one hour for learning math every day.
- Learn shortcuts
If we learn shortcuts, it is advantageous to answer multiple-choice questions in competitive exams.
- Revisit concepts regularly on weekends
If we revisit the concepts weekly, it is easier on the eve of examination.
- Learn formulas through simple tricks
If we read anything before sleeping, it will be easier to recall it the next day. Otherwise, we can stick the formulas or equations on the wall so that we regularly see them.
Conclusion
The best way to make math easier is to teach the children about the importance of math in real life. For example, when building a bridge, we use the mathematical concept geometry, and for making a roller coaster, we use the mathematical concept polynomials. In markets and banks, there is high importance for math. If we visualize the maths concept, then it is easier for us to learn math. If we learn or teach math through fun activities, there is no feeling of learning, only of having fun.
