Seven tips to prevent your child hate math

You may have children. Or friends with kids,  (maths blog)  or family with children. And you would not want to see them traumatized by mathematics. As better safe than sorry, here you can find some ideas for the day. They would be of assistance; They are simple and practical, for all ages. You also have a short video, so they can reach more people, and a collection of useful links.

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For all:
1. Never say "I hate math" (although you did).
Probably you will never say "I hated reading", but unfortunately for math anxiety  is more common . If criticism yourself, be difficult for the child to have a positive attitude towards them. And what is worse, you are giving him an excuse to give up at the first difficulty.Two young women covering her mouth each other (Math tricks)

2. Make him see that you are surrounded by math.
How many minutes are left to enter the school? Why spiders waiting in the center of your fabric? Why the fruit bowl and stacked oranges ? Why wind turbines have three blades ? Show him no math in their everyday and everywhere ... namely acostúmbrale see.Spider waiting at the center of her web

3. Try to think every day is a problem.
If you try to spend some time each day to read , why you not do the same with mathematics? You can be inspired by Bedtime Math , which proposes a mathematical problem every day, or one of the many blogs that propose activities for Children or to Primary .Woman helping a child to solve a puzzle

4. Encourage your child not to give up when you get stuck. (maths blog)
Everyone ever falls when learning to ride a bicycle. But no one stops trying for it and, sooner or later, so just getting there. Stay at his side , trying to pedal alone and  help him when needed .Father encouraging your daughter before she begins to walk alone on a bicycle

5. Promotes follow a method to know and use their creativity.
The math does not consist only of following a recipe . As in the kitchen, you have to know how to do , but also good food experience and get results. Harnessing creativity can be as necessary as teaching follow instructions.Path sign indicating three different directions

6. Teach problem solving.
Dale  tools to solve problems : First, I understand and become familiar with it. Second, search strategies and develop a plan. Third, choose a strategy and implement it. Finally, learn from the successes and mistakes.Map of metro line with stops calls Error (Math tricks)

7. Convey the importance and usefulness of mathematics in history.
Sure you know a lot of painters, writers or musicians who have left their mark. And a mathematician? You can use an important date to speak of  mathematicians who were born or died on that day , pull the  list of leading mathematicians from Wikipedia  or refer  women with science .Grace Hopper at the checkpoint of the UNIVAC I computer

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To know more:
As there are people who know more than me about mathematics education, the tips above are a selection and adaptation of some of those seeking information I could find on the subject. Maybe you have other ideas, you can bring in the comments.

Many of these tips (if not all) are extensible to other sciences. Unfortunately, it is not easy to find information in Spanish ... and much of which there are versions in Spanish of materials from the United States. One is Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics , which includes activities and can also be downloaded as pdf book .

Another interesting material are the  Tips for Parents: Mathematics of The Learning Community. And in the Spanish version of BabyCenter you can read the article How to get your child loves math .

More focused on solving problems are  how to teach children to solve math problems , the Guidance Department at St. Vincent College Paul Gijon (includes many links), and  Workshop math problems Elementary , Guidance Andujar.

To finish materials in Spanish, you might be interested the textbook for first grade you just prepared my partner Pedro Ramos.

And in English, I recommend the Maths tips schoolatoz  (a department of the government of New South Wales ) and Article  How to get children to embrace maths reluctant  to gulfnews.com.

Images:
All used images are licensed Creative Commons .

The image of two girls covering her mouth each other is Anaïs, on Flickr . The image of a father supporting his daughter before they start riding a bike is one of Robin Skibo-Birney in Flickr . The image of the spider web is of Ruth Wilkinson, on Flickr . The image signal is indicating various paths hockadilly on Flickr . Error image of a line on a map of metro stops all calls is Nick Webb, on Flickr . The image of a woman solving a puzzle with a child is Mitch in Flickr . The image of Grace Hopper  in the control station computer UNIVAC I is Chris Monk, on Flickr . (fosfatidilserina)

In the video, the numbers are horse50 in openclipart . ( conference organisers istanbul )The image of the serpent is artbejo in openclipart . Toad image is TheresaKnott in openclipart . The image of the open book of egore911 in openclipart . The image of Königsberg bridge itself is an adaptation of that of  Bogdan Giusca in Wikimedia Commons . The image Fourier  is Eusebius, in Wikimedia Commons . The image of mathematical symbols and numbers is Averater in Wikimedia Commons . The image is colored symbols Riba in Wikimedia Commons .