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The Guardian Teacher Network maths-anxiety<\/a><\/p>\n

Interesting article, this.<\/p>\n

In my first teaching job, I was gifted the bottom set of a cross Key Stage 2 maths set. Twenty Five 7-11 year olds, some of who couldn’t count beyond 10. For my added delectation, I had the year 5\/6 bottom English set.I suspect this pleasure was afforded to a New Qualified Teacher so I couldn’t muck up the SATs results. After all, SATs is where it’s at! I have to say, I loved it and since then I’ve taught lower set maths whenever I’ve had the choice.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Well, this article encapsulates one of the biggest problems in teaching maths…or any other subject, for that matter. Most children who aren’t achieving in maths suffer from huge anxiety about it.  Crack that anxiety and they fly. Adults who have helped out in my classes, and I suspect there are a few of you amongst the readership, will have seen my class singing maths songs, tapping their heads and bottoms (Fractions – ‘what you do to the top you do to the bottom’- bottom is such a funny word when you are 9), singing “I’m all about the maths” and so the ‘we are maths geniuses’ dance. We did smarties ratio and proportion, chocolate fractions (food always focuses the brain), maths sandwiches to help understand algorithms.  We made posters and puzzles and games …and we came to believe we are all maths geniuses. It wasn’t quick, it wasn’t easy but we grew to understand that we can all do maths.<\/p>\n

Many of the children we tutor are perfectly capable, bright little souls but somewhere in their early years in class, they managed to learn to fear maths. Our job is to help them ‘unlearn’ that fear.
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Sometimes we meet parents who learnt that anxiety many years ago. It isn’t helped by the fact that our children learn very different methods and terminology than we did.<\/p>\n

Recognising that, we have decided at EKT to provide sessions for parents too. Details will be on the website soon.<\/p>\n


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