Remind children not to speak carefully when doing problems.

Co-founder and Director of Teaching and Research of Youth Business School

Why don't children want to communicate with you?

Before, we did a survey on the problems parents encountered in the process of guiding their children's mathematics. The first place in the questionnaire survey is: "What should I do if my child is sloppy?"

Indeed, every time a child comes back from an exam, it is not whether he will reflect. What mom and dad see is the child's carelessness, carelessness and carelessness. As soon as the parents saw the math test paper, the child could have scored 90 points because of carelessness, and finally only scored 75 points, and the inner fire came up:

"How can you be so careless! The unit didn't write it, the calculation was wrong, and the question was not finished. Do you have long eyes? Why are you still so careless? "

Did you find it useful after your parents scolded you? It's no use. Children's carelessness in the next exam will make their parents almost collapse. I think many parents have experienced or seen this scene.

So what should I do if I meet a child carelessly? What I share with you in this article today is the dry goods method with practical experience. I try to make it clear in concise language to help parents help their children with math.

Children's common carelessness in mathematics

First of all, in order to overcome children's carelessness, we must first find out what children's carelessness is. Here, I summed up "eight common manifestations of children's carelessness in mathematics":

What about 8 o'clock above? What happened to your child? How many photos did you take? Welcome to leave a message below.

Ok, let's analyze: Why do children show these eight kinds of carelessness?

Three reasons for children's carelessness in homework and exams

Here, I have sorted out three reasons why children are careless in exams and homework.

1, bad habit: don't think, don't check, don't be serious.

First, don't think about it. You carefully observe your child's habit of writing math homework at ordinary times. Did you start writing without thinking when doing the problem? Get the topic "Go ahead and write quickly, so as not to fall behind". This habit makes children develop a very impatient psychology.

Second, don't check. Why not check? Because inspection is a waste of time. Finish it quickly and hand it in quickly, so as not to leave it behind.

Finally, the mentality is impetuous and not serious. Many children who are careless in doing their homework are casual. Although they are doing their homework, this is not his goal, but the finished iPad or other things he wants to play.

So he did his homework with a perfunctory attitude. How can such an attitude not be sloppy? Right? So the result is that although the math homework is finished, the correct rate is very low and the quality is very poor. Over time, children will develop careless habits.

In my opinion, in primary school, children's grades represent not intelligence, but learning attitudes and habits. Do you agree?

Once a child develops a bad habit of carelessness, parents will have a hard time in the future. Even if you stare at your child's homework every day, it is difficult for him to make progress. Why?

Do you think you can still watch your children when they reach the sixth grade junior high school? You can't stare. First, you can't understand his math homework. Second, you can't teach him math mistakes; Third, most importantly, it is difficult for you to change his bad habits.

Therefore, if children have bad study habits and attitudes since childhood, it is difficult to correct them even if their parents later yell that they have heart disease. Staring at the child's study, I don't know where to start, and there is no way but to yell at him; Stop staring, the child is messed up again. I really want to die.

So I emphasize again that children's grades represent their learning attitudes and habits. It is best for children to form good study habits from grade one or grade two. If the child has been in grade five or six, how to remedy it? I will tell you at the end of the article.

2, "indigestion", the basic concept is very confusing.

For example, when you look at your child's test paper, you say, "Come on, come on, Bao Xiao, you are wrong on this issue. Please tell your mother what knowledge points have been tested in this question? " The child faltered for a long time.

Why is this happening? Because he didn't digest what he usually learned, although he also attended cram schools, there was too much cramming knowledge, and many of them were mixed with a little knowledge, which led to mistakes in the exam.

3, lack of practice, low-minded.

This is easy to understand. If the child finishes learning a chapter and doesn't practice, I guarantee that after 7 days, the child will basically forget it. Why? Because this is the human memory curve.

Many children find it easy to listen to the teacher in class and feel that they have learned. There are also some children who like to go to class first and finish learning all the knowledge in the next semester in advance, so they don't pay attention to the class when they go back to school, and the teacher makes them disdain the exercises they do. This leads to the discovery that doing it by yourself is completely different from watching the teacher do it. Finally, I fell into the pit of low taste.

How's it going? Did the carelessness of the above three children hit you? These are the most common reasons and the problems that most children face. Of course, I'm not saying that children can't get 80 points. This is the result of his hard work, which is commendable.

But what about the 20 points deducted? In fact, it is a good habit that children don't usually develop and accidentally throw away. If it's not good, but if 10 points are all caused by carelessness, it's really a pity.

Three Ways to Help Children Overcome Carelessness

Finally, I am talking about the topic that parents are most concerned about, "How to help children overcome carelessness? 」

Usually, some parents constantly remind their children, "Son, you should be serious! Don't be careless Don't make a mistake! "

But is it useful to say so?

According to my experience, your instructions are almost invalid, and it doesn't make much difference whether you say it or not. Why?

Because such a speech is too vague and not specific at all, children can't understand it at all, and there is no executable method. In the child's brain, what I hear is "I have heard this many times, but I don't know what to do?" As a result, the child perfunctory, these words went in one ear and out the other, just listen in.

So what should we do? Finally, I will share a set of process methods with you. This method is a set of concrete and executable procedures. If your child is in the first or second grade of primary school, you can use this method to cultivate his serious habits; If your child is in Grade Five and Grade Six, you can correct his carelessness in this way.

What should I do? Let me be specific.

When you study math with your children, don't just stare at whether the final answer is correct. Pay more attention to children's learning process. When the process is done correctly, the final result will come naturally and the children's grades will improve steadily.

What is the process?

First of all, the first step of the process is: the handwriting is neat.

Some mothers think that children are still young and should be given more space. It doesn't matter if they write badly. I don't know if you have this idea. But my response to this view is that "writing neatly and writing beautifully are two different things."

What do you mean: We don't ask children in grade 12 to write beautifully. We are not comparing calligraphy, but writing neatly. When you write, write in the grid, align and don't stagger. This is a very important requirement.

Why do you say that?

Take mathematics for example, if a child's handwriting is crooked, it is easy for him to put the numbers in the wrong position when calculating vertically, leading to calculation errors. This situation is definitely not that the child can't count, but that he usually writes very carelessly, and no one asks him to write neatly. The correct rate of the results is very low and the grades are very poor.

So the first step of the process is: the handwriting is neat and tidy. When calculating a math problem, whether it is a draft or a formal test paper, it should be written neatly. If this is done correctly, the child's correct rate will be improved a lot.

The second part of the process is: read the topic clearly and think it over before you start writing.

Especially for application problems, don't start writing at the beginning. Read the questions several times first, read all the questions and make clear the meaning of the questions. If you don't understand, draw a picture on the draft paper first. Don't start writing formulas as soon as you come up, try to solve everything with one formula. In the end, I didn't even know what I had calculated.

The third step of the process is to check from the beginning. The simpler it is, the more it needs to be checked.

What do you mean, check from the beginning? Where's the head? The "head" here comes not from the first question, but from the name. An interesting discovery: as long as there is an exam, there must be people who don't write their names. No matter how the teacher reminds me, there are always people who don't write. Therefore, the children are required to start with the name, and then check 123456, and check all the way.

In addition, some children's inspection habits are jumping: look at the front, look at the back, look at the left, look at the right, and check indiscriminately. Finally, I made a mistake in writing or copying a simple topic, and wrote 52 1 as 5 12. There are many such children. So the simpler it is, the more it needs to be checked. Never leave it out.

To sum up, when parents help their children learn math at ordinary times, you constantly remind them of these three points, and they also emphasize these three points when checking:

The above process is a very effective set of methods after practice. Parents should constantly remind their children in their usual homework and control the process. Children will naturally overcome carelessness and develop good study habits.