Causes of Mathematics Learning Difficulties of Senior One Students
1. Textbook Content Reason: Due to the implementation of nine-year compulsory education and the overall improvement of students' quality, the current junior high school mathematics textbook
The content has been greatly adjusted, and the difficulty, depth and breadth have been greatly reduced. Although high school textbooks have also reduced the difficulty, due to the constraints of the college entrance examination, teachers dare not reduce the difficulty, resulting in the actual difficulty of high school mathematics teaching has not been reduced. Therefore, in a sense, the adjusted textbooks have not narrowed the gap between junior and senior high school textbooks, but have increased the gap.
2. Teaching time and teaching methods Reasons: The content of junior high school mathematics textbooks is small, the capacity of each class is small, and the progress is slow. There is enough time to repeatedly emphasize the key and difficult contents, explain and practice repeatedly, so that most students can master it. From the perspective of teaching methods, most students passively accept knowledge. This way restricts the development of students' thinking, the formation of students' awareness of discovery and their innovative thinking. Self-study ability is weak, and the consciousness of active learning is indifferent. After entering senior high school, mathematics textbooks are rich in connotation, high in teaching requirements, fast in teaching progress, wide in knowledge, large in information and difficult in topics. The key and difficult points of knowledge can't be solved by repeated emphasis like junior high school. Moreover, high school mathematics teaching often passes the test.
Guide, ask questions, set traps, set changes, inspire and guide, open up ideas, and then students think and answer independently. Paying more attention to the process of knowledge makes it difficult for students who have just entered high school to adapt to this teaching method, and they have thinking obstacles when attending classes, so it is difficult to keep up with the teacher's ideas, which leads to learning difficulties and affects mathematics learning.
3. Reasons for learning methods: In junior high school, the teacher talked in detail, summed up all types, practiced more and practiced well. As long as students master the concepts, formulas and example types taught by teachers during the examination, they can generally get high marks. Therefore, students are used to turning around the teacher, thinking independently and summing up the general regularity. High school mathematics learning requires you to be diligent in thinking, be good at summing up laws, master mathematical thinking methods, draw inferences from others, and read more reference books by yourself. However, students who have just entered high school often follow the learning methods of junior high school, which leads to difficulties in learning and even problems in completing their homework. Despite a lot of efforts, the results are poor.
Second, the main measures to do a good job in mathematics teaching in junior and senior high schools.
(1) Do a good job in entrance education: improve students' understanding of the importance of knowledge convergence between junior high school and senior high school, enhance their sense of urgency, eliminate the relaxed mood after the senior high school entrance examination, and make students have a preliminary understanding of the characteristics of mathematics learning in senior high school. To this end, we must first explain it clearly to students; Secondly, by comparing with junior high school, the characteristics of mathematics knowledge system and classroom teaching in senior high school are explained to students with examples. In addition, the differences and connections between junior high school and senior high school mathematics learning methods are analyzed with examples.
(2) Linking up the contents of teaching materials: using old knowledge to link up new contents. Senior high school teachers should be familiar with the requirements of junior high school mathematics textbooks and curriculum standards for junior high school mathematics concepts and knowledge, and new high school mathematics teaching can introduce new contents on the basis of reviewing junior high school contents.
(3) Cohesive teaching methods: Junior high school students' thinking mainly stays in the stage of thinking in images or lower-level experience abstract thinking; The first semester of senior one to the first semester of senior two belongs to theoretical abstract thinking, which is the mature period of thinking activities and begins to transition to debate thinking. Therefore, in high school mathematics, students are required to establish strict mathematical concepts and master mathematical knowledge through observation, analogy, induction, analysis and synthesis. Therefore, there must be a good connection between teaching methods.
(4) Cultivate good study habits: Good study habits include the habit of being diligent and inquisitive, the habit of listening attentively in class, the habit of taking notes, the habit of reviewing in time, the habit of finishing homework independently and the habit of writing neatly. Only with good study habits can we get through this connecting stage under the effective guidance of teachers.
(5) Cultivate students' mathematical thinking quality and self-study ability: Junior high school students' thinking mainly stays in the stage of image thinking or lower-level experience abstract thinking, while the first semester of senior one to the first semester of senior two belongs to theoretical abstract thinking, which is the mature period of thinking and begins to transition to dialectical thinking. Therefore, in high school mathematics, students are required to establish strict mathematical concepts and master mathematical knowledge through observation, analogy, induction and synthesis.
In short, in the initial teaching stage of senior one mathematics, analyzing the causes of students' difficulties in mathematics learning and grasping the connection between junior high school and senior high school mathematics teaching will enable students to adapt to the new learning mode as soon as possible, so as to accept new knowledge and develop their abilities more efficiently and smoothly.