I have a friend who has been a math teacher for 10 years. She once told me that most girls with poor math scores have these three characteristics, and even teachers can do nothing about it.
First of all, I feel sleepy in math class.
Some girls are usually very lively and get sleepy as soon as they attend math class. When the teacher began to lecture, the upper eyelid and the lower eyelid began to fight. This kind of girl is seriously lacking in interest in mathematics, and interest is the basis of learning mathematics well.
Qiu Chengtong, the first person from China who won the highest prize in mathematics, once said that the reason why children can't learn mathematics well lies in whether they are really interested in mathematics. Many children in China study math just to get high marks. It can be seen how important the interest in mathematics is!
Second, lack of sense of space and direction.
Some girls are usually confused when they encounter games with a sense of space and direction in class. Almost all of these girls do poorly in math. Because these two points actually test the ability of spatial imagination, and spatial imagination is the basic thinking of learning solid geometry.
Spatial imagination refers to the ability of the brain to clearly display the shape and position of objects in its mind through observation and touch or previous experience. The ability of spatial imagination is cultivated from childhood, so many teachers say there is nothing they can do.
Third, it will not extrapolate, but will only recite.
To draw inferences from others is actually to look at the essential logical thinking ability through phenomena, and the most test of mathematics is logical thinking. Many girls know only one question after completing one. When they met the same question, she couldn't realize that the question had actually been done by herself.
This is a manifestation of rote learning rather than generalization. It is too difficult for such a girl to learn math well! Even if you recite 10,000 problems, you will still be defeated in front of the10000th math problem! This kind of girl may work hard, but even if she doesn't understand, the teacher can't help it!
How to make girls learn math well?
Is that girl born lacking in mathematical thinking? That was not the case. The doctor of psychology at the University of Washington put forward a theory that children are born mathematicians. Whether children can fall in love with mathematics depends on how parents guide them and whether they can stimulate their mathematical thinking.
Professor Qiu Chengtong, who has the reputation that "one person is better than half of the mathematics department of Harvard University", said in the Training Plan for Leading Talents in Mathematical Sciences that training top mathematicians should start with dolls!
Starting from the doll, we should start from the interest, let the children have a good impression on mathematics, and then integrate mathematical knowledge into life, so as to apply what they have learned and cultivate mathematical thinking in the process of application. So how to cultivate interest in mathematics? Pay attention to the way of mathematics enlightenment.
Many parents enlighten their children in mathematics by counting and doing arithmetic! This will not only not stimulate children's interest in mathematics, but also destroy children's mathematics brain and make children hate mathematics.
Ge Jun, the emperor of mathematics, and Boshen Luo, the head coach of American Olympic Games, have the same view on the enlightenment of mathematics, that is, learning mathematics by playing. Germany, which has many mathematicians, seems to know this well, and their mathematical enlightenment began through games.