For example, a mother asked:
Another father said:
For the improvement of children's mathematics learning ability, I believe that the methods that parents often hear should be brushing questions, learning problem-solving skills, improving the ability to understand problems, expanding logical thinking and so on.
However, Xiao Jing "does not take the usual path." Today, I want to share with you their relevance and help to math learning from two aspects: exercise, attention and cognition!
The intensity of physical exercise is related to academic performance.
A study of 20 13 found that students with weak physical ability are also weaker in reading and arithmetic.
More specifically, students in grades 1-3 who performed poorly in the tests of dexterity, speed and dexterity of hands also scored lower in reading and arithmetic tests.
On the contrary, children who score high in sports ability tests usually score higher in reading and arithmetic.
Doing whole-body exercise while studying mathematics can improve the mathematics performance of students in lower grades of primary school.
Another study of 20 16 found that for boys aged 6-8, the less exercise and the longer they sit, the worse their reading and arithmetic scores are than their peers.
Exercise helps to promote brain development.
A big problem for children with inattention and hyperactivity is that some functional areas of the brain are inactive, such as the frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex, which leads to children's inability to concentrate on their studies and poor self-control ability.
Charles Hillman, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, found that after walking for 20 minutes (right), some areas of the brain became more active than sitting still (left).
From the perspective of neuroscience, scientific exercise can better connect and conduct nerves in different areas of the brain, promote the secretion of neurotransmitters, improve cognitive function, and make children's attention more concentrated.
In addition to more accurate brain exercise, moderate and high-intensity physical exercise and strong cardiopulmonary function can also help promote the development of white matter to some extent. If the condition of white matter becomes better, the nerve connection and conduction in different areas of the brain will also become better.
Therefore, children with inattention and little gestures can increase their usual exercise to release energy and promote the secretion of neurotransmitters such as dopamine in addition to professional brain exercise ~
As mentioned earlier, exercise can promote brain development and improve cognitive function. Children with strong exercise ability can do better in reading and arithmetic, so we should talk about the relationship between attention, cognitive ability and arithmetic ability.
The stronger the attention and cognition, the stronger the mathematical ability!
Studies have shown that attention and executive ability can predict children's early arithmetic ability (Swanson, 2006).
A longitudinal study investigated the performance of children in the first, third and fifth grades in mathematics and cognitive transformation. The results show that in the first grade of primary school, the better the cognitive conversion ability, the better the arithmetic score. After the third grade, the correlation between them weakened (Mazzocco &; Kover, 2007).
These two results reflect that the executive function of early school-age children has a certain influence on mathematics learning.
Another study also found that when children's understanding of mathematical problems is roughly the same, the better the executive function, the more likely they are to have better multiplication problem-solving ability (Agostino, Johnson,&; Pascual-Leon, 20 10).
Especially for questions with high multiplication difficulty, the better the efficiency of continuously updating information, the more students can integrate information related to the problem and update information unrelated to the problem, so the better the performance of arithmetic will be.
In addition, the higher children's concentration, the greater the breadth of working memory, the more effectively they can integrate different clues in the topic, and the better their ability to solve problems by multiplication.
Therefore, children's math learning ability is weak, so parents don't have to worry too much. The improved methods are far beyond what we usually know, such as brushing many questions, mastering operation and problem-solving skills, and developing logical thinking.
Give parents two suggestions today. Reasonable arrangement, the improvement of children's mathematical ability is just around the corner.
1. Improve attention and cognitive ability
The prefrontal cortex of the brain has a powerful function and is more closely connected with other parts, making the whole neural network of the brain more developed. Children's attention and executive function can naturally maintain a good state, and their mathematical ability and comprehensive learning ability will also become stronger.
Competitive EEG biofeedback training, according to the specific needs of children, formulate different focus training programs, fully exercise attention and improve cognitive abilities such as memory, understanding and executive function. Multi-point training can help the whole brain nerve network get more comprehensive training.
Participation in EEG training should be gradual. Teacher Jingsi should make a reasonable plan according to the child's problems, personality and ability, and gradually improve the difficulty. The training process needs to be continuously optimized to ensure the efficient implementation and effective promotion of children.
2. Arrange the exercise time reasonably to ensure the intensity.
In addition to participating in EEG biofeedback training to improve children's attention and cognitive ability, it is also an auxiliary method for children to strengthen physical exercise.
Many experts at home and abroad, such as Chen Peijie of Shanghai Institute of Physical Education, suggest that children should do at least 1 hour of moderate and high-intensity exercise every day. It is indeed difficult for children, but parents should try their best to ensure that their children participate in 30 minutes of moderate and high-intensity exercise every day.
Another thing to note is that in order to achieve good results in promoting physical health and brain development, the intensity of exercise should be guaranteed, such as playing basketball, swimming and running. Instead of going for a walk or letting children play with other children.
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