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Math phobia:

What is Math phobia?
In our high schools in the United States of America about 67% students are having Math phobia. Math phobia is the one of the number one barriers of achievement. Students do not have a true base line of knowledge and basic standard is too Shadow to be perfect. Many of our scholars been promoted to the next higher grade even without the proper justification. Many of them been given a passing grade even they do not achieve it. So when they go to the next higher grade they fall behind and the Grade Level expectation become so harder for them to keep up with.

Now days about 99% of our students are distracted by the mobile phone or cell phones in schools and especially in classrooms. Pupils are destructed every 47 seconds by the phone social media like Texting or even Face-book or MySpace or even hi5 or Bebo. How the students will have success when they do not focus or even they do not pay attention in classrooms?

Students when deals with Math and numbers they come up with some weird story, as they kids and most of the time they make stories, soon after looking at a Math problem they even do not take a close look, yet they start making up stories. After a survey of 219 students in s high school in Kansas City, Missouri, USA only 7 of them do not use a cell phone in the classroom and even 4 of them do not have cell phones at all. Now do the Math. 7 out of 219 is about 3% who does not uses cell phones in classrooms and 4 out of 219 is about 2% even does not have cell phones in the school boundaries. Both those categories students have about 95%+ success in the Math classroom. The rest of the 97% are not focusing 100% so they are not having a firm knowledge even the primary or middle school Math knowledge.

What can we do about it? Please advice and I am working on my Graduate Coursework why our students are not achieving in the Math and why they are having a serious Math Phobia?

I want to share a very small and short quiz about just what do you see type basic Addition or Multiplication. Believe me or not, Students in the senior years which mean 12th graders are even failing to just answer it correctly. I have 150 high school's students in my both Algebra - II and Pre-Calculus Class. It is a matter of fact and very unlikely true that only 6 students out of 150 got 10 out of 10 basic questions right. Look at the image of the quiz and you will see what awful question it is. Oh, by the way, I never would find this question by my self. Actually this all 10 questions were done wrongly by many of my students. And I have been trying to see what they see. Finally I found they are not even looking at. So they have no clue to see stuff. So now my main goal is to help all my students to see what I see as a Mathematics teacher. That's why I do fun and joke around and ask my students "WHAT TIME IT IS?” They look at the wall clock and give me the time then I always say how you know, they reply back, we just looked at it. Soon after their reply I am telling them just like looking at the clock just look at the math problem and before even solve it just take a look and identify as you see.

Bottom line, students need to see and just identify what they see. Then they will be able to distinguish the difference between like terms and unlike terms.



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