For parents, making sure that their kids succeed is more important than anything else. Since math is a crucial part of modern medication, programming, engineering and other similar career tracks, we have to ensure that our kids do well in math in school in order to pursue these career tracks.
Here are 5 tips that can help with that.
- Understanding Concepts and Techniques
The classroom is the first time that your child will be taught a concept in math. Understanding the important parts of the concepts in class will save them time especially when doing revisions later on.
For example, highlighting keyphrases and keywords during the math activity will help your kid understand the topic better. Making links between terms like factorization and grouping out common factors will help keep ideas fresh in their mind.
Encouraging your kid to ask questions when they don’t understand is also important.
They should know there is nothing to be ashamed of if you don’t understand something. Not only will this help in math class but it will help them throughout their life.
- Completing Homework Thoughtfully
Does your child focus on just completing their homework or do they grasp fully what they are doing? Most kids focus on just getting their homework done and this makes it hard to remember what they have been taught. Instead, they should be focusing on the homework and understand each steps that they take to complete it.
Ensuring that they master their homework is important. If there are any questions discovered during the process of doing homework, take note of them and make sure to either review them in the text book or ask them in class the next day.
Make sure the television and radio are off while homework is being done so the full focus is directed towards the assignment.
“They should know there is nothing to be ashamed of if you don’t understand something. Not only will this help in match class but it will help throughout their life.“
- Double Check For Understanding
Students need to learn to be independent after primary school. That means they will need to monitor their own progress both in class and with their homework. Checking that they understand what they are doing is a necessity. Learning to gauge one’s understanding of a topic is something that you should help to instill in your kids at secondary school level.
They will need to use all of their materials such as readings, homework, quizzes, and tests to see if they understand the topic. Based on the grading of these assignments they should be able to tell where they need to focus.
Students who do not learn to work independently often end up behind their peers. More than that, they don’t even find out their lack of understanding until a major examination comes.
- Revisit Topics With Revision
After a couple months have gone by, topics might start to get blurry and comprehension may disappear. Work with your child to develop a revision schedule that helps them to revisit topics that they have already covered.
Revisiting topics with revision on a regular basis is important. We recommend that you cover one topic every week to help keep all of your student’s learning fresh. One topic a week may not seem like much but the consistency helps to instill the ideas in their minds. It also prevents the need to cram before major examinations.
- Seek Help Sooner Rather Than Later
Your child has learned to understand their topics and revisit them, but they have also learned to develop a way to identify where they need help. Now you need to reinforce the idea that your child should seek help right away. If they put off getting help, the topic becomes more fuzzy and it may inhibit the learning of future topics.
Should your child need help, they should evaluate how much help they need. Whether that be more time with the teacher or getting the help of a tutor.
Mathematics is a difficult course and it involves a lot of different topics. Learning to understand each topic is crucial but with these five tips your child will be well on their way to mastering them. The idea is to keep trying and not give up, no matter how hard it gets.