10 tips on how to help a child cope with math

- I can not anymore - 10-year-old Sasha is sufferingrolled her eyes and dropped her head on the notebook. The notebook was in a box. Mathematics. Yes, the queen of all sciences to children is often given more difficult than literature, history or other humanitarian knowledge. But without mathematics, nowhere. How to deal with it? Its method was invented by the British teacher Cathy Highgame, who spent ten years of her life trying to teach mathematics wisdom to other people's children. And when I encountered the same problem, but already in my own family (Katie has three children), I decided that I had to change something. And she created "Katie's Classroom" - a portal designed to help children and parents learn a complex science.Photo:GettyImages Here are ten top tips that Mrs. Highgam gives to students and their parents. So here they are. 1. Talk to your teacher and more than once - when you meet. Chat with your math teacher regularly. So you can understand what is most difficult for your child. And you will be able to provide, let's say, targeted assistance. 2. Practice! To paraphrase Comrade Vladimir Ilyich, practice, practice and practice again. Especially if the GIA or USE is on the nose. Solve problems from collections several times, solve examples from previous tests or exams of past years. It sounds corny, but it really helps. When a child realizes that he can solve all these once difficult problems without hesitation, he will become more confident. But it is from a lack of confidence that children often make mistakes. Little by little, but often Every real woman knows that regularity is the key to solving any problem, be it beauty treatments, diet or sports. It's the same with mathematics. Even 15 minutes, but every day will help the child more confidently cope with even the most tricky calculations. 4. Write and Review Let your child not just write down the answer, solving the problem, even if it is correct. It is better if he will paint the whole decision process. Then, if he does make a mistake, you can see where the failure occurred. And fix the problem on the spot. And if the little genius decides everything in his head, it will be much more difficult to catch the moment when something went wrong. Encourage Well, or at least praise. Small, even tiny, prizes and praises will help your child feel like they have really accomplished something. Mom's admiration, for example - you will not believe, but this is really important. A little boasting or even self-admiration hasn't bothered anyone yet. In the end, the installation in the child's head “I can't, I can't succeed” will be replaced by another, more useful one: “I can't yet, but I will succeed.” 6. Learn the multiplication table Well, yes. But that doesn't mean it doesn't work. The speed of thinking, the speed of reaction - all this can be perfectly trained by simply throwing examples from the multiplication table. And it takes a little time. You can play this game of "burning numbers" while you are making your bed in the evening, washing dishes, putting away toys - but at least for a walk.Photo: GettyImages7. Repetition is the mother of the teaching. If any new topic is given too hard, perhaps the problem is that your student has not yet learned enough of the previous one. Go back one step or two, repeat the old topics. And again, move forward, from simple to difficult. Insight into the essence Let all children learn the same way, but they perceive the information in different ways. Some people seem to have the gift of spatial thinking from a diaper. And others need to visualize the problem in order to solve it. Maybe you will benefit from visual aids, drawings and other practices? Try it. 9. Let them become familiar. Make a kind of mathematical corner in the child's room: how tables, schemes and formulas hang in the classroom, so let them be. Once again stumble upon a look at all these beautiful things - it will be better remembered.10. Do the math closer and native. If the child understands the place of science in our life, it will be easier for him to accept the fact that it needs to be known and to learn different tasks. For example, let him recalculate the amount of a communal apartment according to the data from the receipts, calculate the time of movement, focusing on the bus schedule, the amount of the deposit in the store, etc. Then it becomes clear that without mathematics we are nowhere. Read on: