Arousing the Interest of Student to the Beautiful Subject

We often see that children are scared of mathematics. This manifests itself as a reluctance to understand the subject, and ultimately in them pushing the subject aside.

The truth is that Mathematics is an interesting and unique subject. This is the sense that we need to instill in them.

Mathematics is unique in the sense that all other areas we study came from our curiosity about the universe around us. We looked up at the night sky, and from our curiosity about what we saw, came up with astronomy and physics. We looked at the proliferation of life around us, and developed the science of biology. And so on.

But mathematics is something that originated in the human mind. It is true that the start of mathematics came from daily activities, where we distilled the concepts of numbers and counting, but soon it surpassed those humble origins and became something we create from our minds – pure abstract thought. No wonder it is often called “The language of science”.

The reason why some children fear it is that it is projected in our education system as a very difficult area. However, this is not really true, but one thing that really helps is practice. It’s true in all areas of human endeavour, but a special magic to understanding mathematics. Continuous practice with various types of questions helps crystallize the concepts and that is when the fear of the subject is overcome.

Students tend to excel excellently in Mathematics if they develop enthusiasm, interest and understand the concept of the subject. This may come from the mind of the student and if otherwise the tutor/guardian will have to help in this regard.