{"id":22121,"date":"2012-05-29T14:20:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T18:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=22121"},"modified":"2012-05-29T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T19:36:07","slug":"inspiring-kids-to-learn-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/05\/inspiring-kids-to-learn-math","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring Kids To Learn Math"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Decades of educational research demonstrate that during the years between elementary school and high school, many students disengage from math and don\u2019t regain their interest\u2014to the detriment of their later schooling, and even their adult careers.<\/p>\n

A study that followed 273 students over the course of their first year of middle school, for example, found that by spring, the pupils described mathematics as less valuable than they had the previous fall, and reported that they were investing less effort and persistence in the subject than they had before.<\/p>\n

Andrew Martin, a researcher from the University of Sydney in Australia, set out to investigate what made middle-school students switch on \u2014 or switch off \u2014 to math. The findings of Martin and his colleagues, which were published earlier this year in the Journal of Educational Psychology, were based on data from 1,601 Australian middle school students, from 200 classrooms in 33 schools.<\/p>\n

One of the factors they identified in turning middle-schoolers onto math is self-efficacy: students\u2019 sense that they are competent and able enough to solve mathematical problems. To foster and encourage this in kids, Martin recommends that teachers and parents \u201crestructure learning so as to maximize opportunities for success\u201d by building on skills that students have already mastered, for example, and helping kids set challenging but realistic goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between elementary school and high school many students lose interest in math, never regaining it, to the detriment of their later schooling, and even their adult careers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[21,140,51],"class_list":["post-22121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-educational","tag-schools","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}