subject: When Children Learn Times Tables Well This Helps Develop Maths Confidence [print this page] When Children Learn Times Tables Well This Helps Develop Maths Confidence
Many people are aware of the fear and anxiety that is present for many people with public speaking.
The thing that is not so well known is that many people have a fear of maths.
The discomfort can make itself felt for children whilst at school often resulting in them both forgetting what they have learned and having lower levels of confidence.
Lack of confidence can result in lower performance in school whereas greater confidence does the opposite and results in children doing a lot better.
Just being aware of this is can make a positive difference to your children and when they learn times tables.
The time pressure that is part of maths tests at school, the public pressure to get the answers right, and the experience of not instantly knowing the answers to maths questions, often adds to children's feelings of anxiety.
Marilyn Curtain-Philips in her brilliant article The causes and Prevention of Math Anxiety, says that children would do much better in a school environment and classroom which has been properly planned.
This means planning the class in such away as to help children to feel more confident and is a place where wrong answers to questions are managed in a helpful and encouraging way.
I agree with all this but what can you as a parent do?
True, the classroom is not somewhere where you have a huge influence, however, you do have a huge influence in another learning space; your home.
This is where you can really help your children with their maths confidence.
You can make a huge impact to your children's maths confidence in general by helping them learn times tables really well. By knowing this area of maths well they can feel more confident in other areas. To help your children learn times tables what can you do?
When helping your children learn times tables at home you can use audio times tables worksheets to create a positive learning environment.
Yes, you will see testing with these but it is not in front of classmates,
No getting answers wrong in public and if a correction is needed no fuss.
A big point here. You and your children have the choice of easily learning the times tables so that there is an instant recall ability before there is any testing.
How can they do this?
The secret to immediate recall of the times tables answers and the technique needed to learn times tables is one that employs speaking, colour, visual images, and believe it or not movement. An Instant Recall method.
When these things are done your children will learn times tables really well, helping to grow their maths confidence in other areas.
What is the conclusion to all this?
With audio times tables worksheets and an Instant Recall method used to learn times tables the time pressure that is part of maths tests at school is not there, the public pressure to get the answers right is not there, and the experience of not instantly knowing the answers to maths questions is not there.
Each of these points leads to a child who can learn times tables so well that they know them as well as they know their own names.
And what is the raspberry on the cake in all this?
Because they have done so well in one area of maths and been able to learn times tables, they can feel more confident about learning other areas of maths.
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