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When students are showing a lack of interest in the classroom, it could mean allot of possibilities.
If children are experiencing abnormal behavioural issues such as being anti social and lack of interest in social activities that the average student might find stimulating, than you may be facing greater issues. No child can properly learn if they are experiencing any mental or emotional issues at home or else where, and thats something that needs to be solved right away in order for them to properly learn and not fall back.
The second thing would be is you need to consider if your child(ren) are gifted. You can also catch this with behavioural issues, many children who are autistic, dyslexic, ADHD, etc are usually gifted and need to be mentally stimulated more. In this case you would need to do special planning and prep to gear your work for them, or find challenging puzzles, or games, or problems they could work on while everyone else is working on there regular work. Usually gifted children feel very unconfident and have very poor social skills, and get bullied. They require more attention than average.
As for the mathematics issue, school curriculum is based on a very general learning style. it is geared towards one type of learning. I would suggest you implement hands on learning in your mathematics class. Hands on uses different parts of the brain, as well as it works for almost everyone. The other good thing about hands on learning technique, is it will increase memory and help them retain information as it will become more "association" to learn. for example; times tables you can use flash cards rather than writing out, now the memory will compare the information to flash cards with time tables rather than finding numbers. Im not sure if you know how the brain is wired. but you can do some research and make plans around that information to better assist your students .
Teaching takes patience, don't get discouraged if they don't understand. It means you need to map our a better route for them to learn. Sometimes its based on trial and error. But you'll find something that works. Make a class interesting and fun, if its dull than your going to get a lower result.
Maths there is a perception that maths is a difficult subject.It starts from school level onwards.Now ask the students are they able to cross a road on their own if so tell them their mind does the calculation within micro seconds calculating speed of vehicles,probability of the driver applying breaks,or accelerator these all without any maths learning. Well give them the confidence rest will fall into place.
. Connect what you're teaching to real life
2. Use students' interests and fascinations
3. Give students choices
4. Present information in multiple formats
5. Teach students self-monitoring skills
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