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Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com)
A new report out of the University of Cambridge studied the experiences of a total of 2,700 primary and secondary students in the UK and Italy and found that primary and secondary school girls had higher levels of both math anxiety and general anxiety than boys. "The study also focuses on how parents and teachers shape math performance and attitudes, perhaps without even realizing it," adds Motherboard. "In the same way that anxious parents can shape their children's anxiety, math-anxious mentors can shape how kids view their own math anxiety." From the report: The new study builds on previous research by highlighting the importance of teachers and parents' own math anxieties impacting students. Most students that the researchers talked to said that their anxiousness started when the math topics became more challenging, and they felt like they couldn't do them. Another reason the students' said they were struggling was because multiple teachers were teaching them math, and it became confusing across teaching styles. "Importantly -- and surprisingly -- this new research suggests that the majority of students experiencing maths anxiety have normal to high maths ability," Josh Hillman, Director of Education at the Nuffield Foundation, said in a press release.
Several of the excerpts of the interviews conducted by researchers with math-anxious kids are heartbreaking: Many described feelings that they knew the answers but panicked, or tried to battle through initial confusion. One child, around 9 or 10 years old, said: "Once, I think it was the first day and he picked on me, and I just kind of burst into tears because everybody was staring at me and I didn't know the answer. Well I probably knew it but I hadn't thought it through." Another described doing a fractions test: "It means like enormously [nervous], and enormously means like massively... I felt very unwell and I was really scared and because my table's in the corner, I kind of just like tried to not be in the lesson."
Several of the excerpts of the interviews conducted by researchers with math-anxious kids are heartbreaking: Many described feelings that they knew the answers but panicked, or tried to battle through initial confusion. One child, around 9 or 10 years old, said: "Once, I think it was the first day and he picked on me, and I just kind of burst into tears because everybody was staring at me and I didn't know the answer. Well I probably knew it but I hadn't thought it through." Another described doing a fractions test: "It means like enormously [nervous], and enormously means like massively... I felt very unwell and I was really scared and because my table's in the corner, I kind of just like tried to not be in the lesson."
It is simply, they have turned most lessons into talkfests to favour female learning at the expense of male learning, they did this knowingly and the crazies bragged about it as male children fail, they cheer it, sick stuff. Problem arises in all STEM subjects, you either know they shit and can do it or you do not, no female chin wag way out of it. Try as hard as they can, the crazies can not make maths a group therapy discussion, you either learn that maths individually and do it individually or fail, they can not create female learning favouring math, well they can but we call that basic geometry and simple arithmetic and it finishes in early high school.
Just wait, math is anti-social and male biased and should not be a requirement of higher education, anything beyond primary school purely optional, maths is male and mean.
They are purposefully tilting higher education to favour females and exclude males, here we come, all male technical colleges, it is inevitable and the crazies will scream about it after forcing it into being.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
I have actually watched simple math problems being solved the common core way. It's cuckoo. Adding the common core way doesn't teach concepts because you need to be able to add BEFORE you can really get the concepts.
If THAT is just standardizing how they've already been teaching math (apparently after my time), it's no damned wonder there's so many people who can't do arithmetic if their battery goes dead.
The world seems to disagree with you.
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The term is mostly applied to men who want actual equality and not a perpetual pretend state of correcting a female disadvantage despite reality in which females actually have all the advantage.
Remembering 8+13 IS wrong. Are you able to memorize every number added to every other number? What are you going to do when the problem is 58472+39485? The idea of decomposition is to make the problem easier so that the harder problems are easier to solve. That is what CC does, and it makes sense. They are teaching the approach, not memorization. Memorization is stupid.
Nope. Nothing that is publicly editable can be relied on for anything, because they are too easily manipulated by one person or a small group of persons determined that they will prevail regardless of the evidence.