The real reason behind children's carelessness in doing problems lies in these often overlooked details.

Wen | Evan

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

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

It's true that every time a child comes back from an exam, it's not whether he will or not. What mom and dad see is the child's carelessness, carelessness and carelessness. As soon as parents saw the math test paper, the child could have scored 9 points because of carelessness, but only got 75 points in the end, and the inner fire came up: < P > "How can you be so careless again! The unit didn't write it, the calculation was wrong, and the problem was not finished. Do you have long eyes? How can you still be so careless? "

do you think it's useful after your parents scolded you? It's no use. The children will be careless in the next exam, which will make their parents almost collapse. I think many parents have experienced or seen this scene.

so what should I do if I encounter a child's carelessness? Today, what I share with you in this article is all dry goods methods with practical experience. I try to make it clear in concise language and help parents to help their children with math.

Children's common careless expressions in mathematics

First of all, if we want to overcome children's carelessness, we must first find out what children's careless expressions are. Here, I have summarized "eight common manifestations of children's carelessness in mathematics":

What about the above eight points? What are some of the situations your children have encountered? How many shots did you get? Welcome to leave a message below.

ok, let's analyze: why do children show these eight kinds of carelessness?

Three reasons why children are careless in homework and exams

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

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

first, don't think. You carefully observe your child's habit of writing math homework at ordinary times, and do you start writing without thinking when doing the problem? Get the topic "Go, write quickly, lest you 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 fall behind.

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

So he writes his homework in a perfunctory manner. How can such an attitude not be careless? 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 their intelligence, but their learning attitude and habits. Do you agree?

Once a child has developed a bad habit of carelessness since childhood, parents will have a hard time in the future. Even if you stare at your children's homework every day, it is difficult for them to improve. Why?

Do you think you can still keep an eye on your children when they reach the sixth grade and junior high school? You can't stare. First, you can't understand his math homework. Second, you can't teach his math mistakes; Third, the most important thing is that it is difficult for you to change his bad habits.

Therefore, if children have bad study habits and attitudes since childhood, it will be difficult to correct them even if their parents later complain of heart disease. Stare at the child's study, don't know where to start, there is no way but to yell at him; Don't stare, the child is in a mess again. I really want to die.

So, I emphasize once again that children's grades represent their learning attitude and habits. It is best for a child to establish his good study habits from the first or second grade. If the child has been in grade five or six, how can he remedy it? I'll tell you at the end of the article.

2. The basic concept of "indigestion" is very confusing.

For example, when you look at your child's examination paper, you say, "Come on, come on, Xiaobao, you are wrong about this question. Please tell your mother what knowledge points are tested on 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 classes and cram schools, he had too much knowledge of cramming, and many of them were mixed up with a little knowledge, and as a result, he made mistakes in the exam.

3. It's easy to understand that children lack practice, but their eyes are superior and their eyes are inferior

. If they don't practice after learning a chapter, I guarantee that after 7 days, they will basically forget about it. Why? Because this is a human memory curve.

Many children find it easy to listen to the teacher in class and feel that they have learned everything. There are also some children who like to take classes first and learn all the knowledge of the next semester in advance, so they go back to school and don't pay attention to the lectures, and the teachers make them disdain the exercises they do. This leads to the discovery that doing it by yourself and watching the teacher do it are completely different when taking the exam. Finally, I fell into the pit of low-minded.

well, have the above three reasons for children's carelessness hit you? These are the most common reasons and the problems faced by most children. Of course, I'm not saying that the child can't get 8 points. This is the result of his hard work, which is commendable.

but what about the deducted 2 points? In fact, it is a good habit that children usually don't develop and accidentally throw it away. It's okay if none of them count, but it's really a pity if 1 points are caused by carelessness.

three tricks to help children overcome the problem of carelessness

finally, I am talking about the topic that parents are most concerned about, "how to help children overcome the problem of carelessness?"

Usually, some parents keep reminding their children, "Be serious, son! Don't be careless! Don't be wrong about the wrong topic! "

but is it useful to say so?

according to my experience, your instruction is almost invalid, and it doesn't make much difference whether you say it or not. Why?

Because this kind of speech is so 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?" So, the child perfunctory, these words go in one ear and out the other, just listen to it.

so what should I do? Finally, I will share with you a set of process methods. This method is a set of concrete and executable programs. If your child is in primary one or two, you can use this method to form his serious habit; If your child is in primary five and primary 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 the process of children's learning. If the process is done correctly, the final result will naturally follow, 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 and tidy.

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

What do you mean? For children in Grade 12, we don't ask them to write beautifully. We are not comparing calligraphy, but we should write neatly. When you write, write it in the grid, write it in alignment, and don't stagger, while the dragon and the phoenix dance. This is a very important requirement.

why do you say that?

In mathematics, if a child's handwriting is crooked, it will be easy for him to misplace the position of numbers when calculating vertically, which will lead to calculation errors. This situation is definitely not that the child can't count, but that he is very sloppy when he usually writes, and no one asks him to write neatly. As a result, the correct rate 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 examination paper, it should be written neatly. If this is done correctly, the child's correct rate will be improved a lot.

The second step of the process is: read the topic clearly, think it over before writing.

especially the application questions, don't start writing immediately. 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 when you come up, trying to solve everything with one formula. In the end, I don't even know what I calculated.

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

what do you mean by checking from the beginning? Where's the head? The "head" here is 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, ask the child to start with the name, then check 123456, and keep going down.

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. In the end, I made a mistake on a simple topic, or copied it wrong, and wrote 521 as 512. There are many such children. Therefore, the simpler it is, the more it needs to be checked. Never leave it out.

To sum up, when parents are tutoring their children in math, you constantly remind them of these three points, which are also emphasized during the inspection:

The above process is a very effective set of methods after practice. Parents should constantly remind them when they are tutoring their children's homework, and control the process well, so that children will naturally overcome their carelessness and develop good study habits.