math aptitude – Early Math Counts https://earlymathcounts.org Laying the foundation for a lifetime of achievement Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:51:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 183791774 Don’t Trash-Talk About Math https://earlymathcounts.org/dont-trash-talk-about-math/ https://earlymathcounts.org/dont-trash-talk-about-math/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:02:15 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=453 In Sunday August 12, 2012’s Parade Magazine I found a checklist for parents to help them get ready for the upcoming school year.  There was a list of 10 tips to follow.  Number 6 was entitled “Don’t Trash-talk about math”.

Psychologists Harold Stevenson and James Stigler found 15 years ago that in countires that produce a lot of math whizzes, parents and teachers believed math ability is like a muscle you strengthen with good instruction and practice.  In the USA, where klids don’t do that well, parents think of math ability as a talent, not a skill….Watch what you say about your own math aptitude- it matters.

What do you think?  Is math a talent or a skill?

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