What to do with careless children?

It is very common for children to be careless. Teachers and parents often find that children can obviously do the questions, but because of carelessness, they may not understand the meaning of the questions clearly, or they accidentally make calculation errors, which will lead to wrong final results. When many teachers and parents encounter this problem, they will teach or even punish the children strictly. In fact, this approach is wrong. It will bring great psychological pressure to children. So what is the correct solution?

What to do with careless children?

1. Check back

After finishing a question, judge the rationality of the result based on your existing experience and the result of this question. For example: the resulting number is ugly; or the required time is negative.

At this time, you need to go back and carefully check the calculation process just now. Then, clean and tidy draft paper plays another important role - easy to check!

2. Read the questions slowly

After getting the test paper, read the questions slowly, especially when the questions are long, you should read them slowly and carefully! Read and think while writing down important information. For example, mark the known data on the graph in the question. Remember, don't jump to conclusions before reading the whole topic.

Basically, you only need to read it once, and all the useful information will enter your mind correctly, so you can correctly apply all the known conditions when solving problems! If you misread the question or miss the conditions, you will be in big trouble.

3. Neat calculation

When solving math problems, many calculations are done on scratch paper. As for the draft paper, there is no need to show it to others, so many students’ draft papers are a mess. I believe that children all have this experience: if they encounter complex problems, they need to list many equations and calculation formulas based on known conditions.

Then you have to look at these equations carefully and find the hidden key information to solve the problem. At this time, if the calculation process on your draft paper is neat, clean and eye-catching, it will be easier to find the key information implied in the known conditions, and you will not make wrong moves of numbers or wrong symbols. The problem-solving process will naturally be smooth!

4. Dig deep into the root cause

For some questions, the teacher only needs to give a little guidance and the children will know the correct way to solve the problem. These errors, seemingly caused by carelessness, are actually due to unclear concepts.

Well, we can’t just change it now. We should hold on to small problems, dig deep into the root causes, use analogies, comparisons and other methods, go through all the relevant knowledge and sort it out thoroughly.