Because many teachers don’t know how teach math. In some cases they teach it as if it was a history course with focus on memorizing rather than understanding concepts. Math teacher need to be taught how teach and inspire.

The general believe by them is that the subject is difficult to learn and understand. A teacher of mathematics should have enough patience to present the subject in the most simple way. Keep the teaching very simple, use real life examples for explanation and make the class interesting. Allow them to freely ask questions no matter how stupid. Also tell them it is the simplest subject you can ever think of. With these, they begin to develop interest in mathematics and look out for mathematics books to help them further.

I agree with Dr. Jumoke. Mathematics teachers must use more proactive, easy-to-grasp teaching approaches that are more learner-centred.

It's because if maths were music the books teach them to draw a musical staff for years before they get to first chance to here the music. Only a few can stay motivated due to their personal feats, efforts of their parents or simply enormous talent and unusual love for numbers. But the majority would be normally lost at some pint sooner or later.

that is because the teacher

it is hard for learning by the students.

It might not be a good idea to say that all the elementary school students do not like math books.

Possibly, an attitude towards a learning resource depends on the combination of the goal of studies, content, learner, teacher, and the way how this resource is actually used over time.

For example, even "the best" math texbook that pupils with strong abilities enjoy in one specialized class may be irrelevant, say, in another class with the same teacher where pupils are overall very weak and need more experiential, much more slower and supportive approach to studies.

Our math teacher in high school, for instance, shared an example of one student from an overall weak cohort. That student did not like math books, because she did not like reading and studying in general. She also had problems solving math problems, when they involved abstract numbers.

However, the math teacher has found a solution for supporting this student in learning. She reformulated the math problems in terms of money, food or shopping items for that student personally to make her learning more experiential. Then, the student was able to solve math tasks, and she could do that surprisingly well. Over time, her math understanding improved, and she could pass the high school exams.

It is all a matter of teaching method. Even if the subject is "boring" the teacher can make it exciting!

The love of conservation and retrieval of understanding, analysis and synthesis, or use the lower levels of thinking about the higher levels of it; because we are still using the method of indoctrination by the teacher to the learner without feedback feedback, and away from the use of modern learning strategies, which depends on that the student is the focus and center of the process Educational methods, teaching methods that rely on criticism and analysis, developing skills of innovation and creativity, learning by playing, and brainstorming. All this led to students' reluctance to obtain information, without fatigue or effort, as long as it is provided. Thus, there are large numbers of learners and graduates from universities and higher institutes, but without culture; the simplest definition of culture is that all that remains in the mind of the learner after that Forgetting the details of what he learned, and informing us about the methods of teaching and learning know that the learner came and went out of the process did not acquire anything will remain in mind, so the process has become a process of literacy literacy, except from the mercy of my Lord of the lucky ones who received a good part of education In kind Schools and universities, but their percentage is very small compared to the number of graduates!

Because many teachers don’t know how teach math. In some cases they teach it as if it was a history course with focus on memorizing rather than understanding concepts. Math teacher need to be taught how teach and inspire.

Mathematics is not a popular subject in general. However, their difficulty will always be a barrier to students. Love is an inescapable condition for the path of mathematics. Life experience emphasizes the importance of this factor (love) in all areas of life. Let us limit our talk to education: When a student asks, "Why do not you study mathematics?" And / or "Why are you weak in math?", The most frequent answer among other answers is "I do not like it!" In the second degree of repeated answers we hear the words: "What I love Professor (or Miss)!" On the contrary, we find the student of excellence in mathematics confirms his love and love of this article, and we see it studied, even without regard, often, for his interest in signs.

I wanted to begin by introducing the relationship between the love of the material and the possibility of studying it (and also between the teacher's love of the material and its success in teaching it) because I am of great importance to this subject. I consider love the basis of every successful work. I believe that love of mathematics is therefore a basic necessity for those who want to deal with it in peace

Mathematics is a language that does not communicate a story.

Mathematics is a course in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) field, STEM courses are regarded as Hard science. For that reason many especially primary and secondary school students are not willing to task their brain.

Regards,

Modestus.

Similar to other previous answers: it is (justified and branded) difficult subject. Not only classmates or the older class cohort plant this idea to those who will have this subject in their class, most of students' parents behave similarly toward the math as a school subject (compared to others, such as physical education, social science etc).

Effective learning methods should always be renewed as each generation pose challenge in teaching them, but I agree with the idea that says "it is the teacher on certain subject that will make that subject interesting.."

Math is great, but not all teachers are "great teachers" :-))

Yea, teachers have a lot of role to play

Teacher may teach by using pictures and products which school students can connect easily. This will help in creating interest as well faster learning by students.

Dear Sina Mahadevi ,

The students thought is "maths is very difficult subject"

and their parents and teachers also told to him it very difficult.

for these reasons they hate maths.

but the teachers play major role in this problem

I think it is often because of the teaching method that the students do not like mathematics.

Even with a good teaching method, student still prefer other subjects to mathematics. While other subjects come with exciting stories, diagrams, colour and so on, mathematics comes with cumbersome and confusing terms/symbols such as +, x, -, ÷, π, √, and so on. With this, student are likely to score lower mark or even zero in the subject. And you will agree with me that the best way to create fear and initiate 'hate' of a subject to students is to score them zero. Everything about mathematics at the initial stages brings confusion and fear.

In India, Mathematics is the core subject in all classes up to 10th standard. As far as concerned to me it was compulsory to all of us to bring Maths book in the class. And the same I am observing with my children.

The teacher and maths teaching methodologies are keys. Ancient Chinese algo's are very interesting in making maths attractive.

A good mathematician is generally a bad maths teacher.

To improve the didactics of mathematics depends on the 'Gaussian' dictum: you have first to teach the 'logic' of the applicable method, and only afterwards you need some mechanical regurgitation to become error-free. This teaching method can be done by an average mortal human being, but understanding the meaning of mathematical concepts is paramount. For elementary school, some more 'physical education' in maths can solve the pedagogical problem, I am reminding here on Seymour Papert and related research.

Hello,

My dear colleagues,

Thank you very very much all of you for your contribution in this subject, and thanks a lot for your valuable and acientific answers. Really, I am intrested by reading of the your nice answers, I find that in most of the your idea the "Kind teaching and Teacher function" is more important in this case.

Thanks again for your instructive answers, because they help us to overcome and solve this problem in the future, maybe....

Thanks,

I would like to put my views on the subject question as follow,

1. Every kid is born with some hereditary legacy in biological characteristics concerning to various abilities. When we address about its ability, we generally mean to its overall ability. However, if "ability" is analysed in detail, one might learn that there are innumerable slots where each slot represents a particular ability. You might find a primary school student who does not have any facility to study and facing hardship and poverty at home but his mind on school subjects proves to be splendid. In the same class, a student with reach backing and most nutritious food and care/comfort at home shows disinclination towards the subjects.

So one part is "a born student". The students who have self curiosity to learn are the unbeaten worriers of our society.

2. It is a mistake to presume that a kid that does not find good grasping in mathematics is a weak student. His nature and biological characteristics does not support his anticipated progress in the set of a slot of abilities that concerns to mathematics, but his other slots of abilities might be exceptionally superior. However, as far as mathematics is concerned, I recall the wordings of my higher secondary school teacher.... , "Mathematics is the most easy subject in this world if you have interest in it, but it is the most difficult subject in this world if you want to learn it but you do not have interest in it."

3. I believe that no one in this world can teach anything to any one if the person is not curious to learn with his positive attitude. In fact role of teacher and parents is (as far as our discussion concerns),

• to provide multiple opportunities if he/she is curious to learn.
• some times the kid itself does not know exactly where he/she does not understand OR exactly what is his/her difficulty and here parents/teachers should play active role to guide him/her to find out "where does the shoe pinch?".
• It is the role of parents/teachers with their presenting abilities to explain the topics in such a way that it makes the subject interesting. Moreover, parents and teachers might awake the ability of the student that is in dormant condition (if it is there at all). No parent/teacher can create it. However, if it is not there and the student ultimately fails to take grip on mathematics, it does not mean it is his total failure. He might be most successful in other slots of abilities.

Harshad Dave

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Good question that provoked outstanding and informative answers

I think it depends on the teacher and the student. How the teacher do his/her best to make the subject clear and appealing to the student and whether student showing curiosity to learn.

Mostly because they are not cognitively ready to meet the demand of formal operations. Nonetheless, there are also other factors involved. The following links provide you with reasons why children dislike mathematics:

https://www.mav.vic.edu.au/files/conferences/2004/Swan.pdf

citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.628.401&rep=rep1...pdf

https://www.huichawaii.org/assets/simmers%2C-michael.pdf

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/cdr/2012/124939/

Article Telling Math: Origins of Math Aversion and Anxiety

Teaching mathematics requires a lot of patience and a good teacher. The teacher should be creative to adapt the teaching strategy to keep the audience interested. Memorization by itself is not bad, however, if concepts are supplemented with practical examples that students can see, hear and feel this willl go a long way in getting the students' attention and interest. Also math should be made fun. Combining mathematical concepts with maybe singing songs or something similar may keep the elementary school children's attention focused. The parents at home may not be well versed to help the children at home. Thus the teacher should make the classroom environment interesting and less threatening that the students look forward to coming to school every morning. This would take away the children's sole dependence on text books.

Dear dr. Sina Mahdavi

like or dislike subject in the school or in university is depending on the teacher and the way of teaching which can attract the students to the subject either mathematics or any subject or not, even attending the class or not is depending on the teacher and we all remember that because of the teachers we love some subject until now.

Students hatred for mathematics especially at elementary level stems from the poor pattern or ways in which mathematics is taught in schools.

Building the confidence of students by presenting mathematics in a very interesting way at nursery and primary level, especially using real life examples will go a long way to ensure students fall in Love with Mathematics and when they fall in Love with Mathematics, they want to learn more of it...

Many children suffer from difficulties in understanding and learning mathematics. This is due to the inability of the child to acquire basic mathematical skills, which include the addition and subtraction, the use of the multiplication table and the division of numbers. The inability of the child to perform these basic mathematical calculations Increasing the number of difficulties facing him as he develops in the stages of education of mathematics, which depends on mastering these basic mathematical skills and with time the child hates the material of mathematics and because he feels that he is unable to deal with it and can not apply what he learns in the basic situations that require the use of Those are the ones The child finds himself in a vicious cycle of hatred for mathematics and is increasingly perceived as a complex subject that he can not understand or succeed in. The difficulty levels in learning mathematics are generally varied. There are difficulties in understanding the child's mathematical symbols, expressions or difficulties. Understanding mathematical issues or inability to devise the appropriate mathematical procedure to solve the mathematical problem or inability to analyze mathematical elements and other difficulties that the child finds in dealing with mathematics

There are many therapeutic methods used to address the difficulties of learning mathematics, including relying on sports educational games and focusing on teaching methods used on the effectiveness of the child in the process of learning and not only the skills of dumping while avoiding the abuse of the child, which increases his hatred of mathematics in addition to help the child In reading the mathematical issue and analyzing its components and providing appropriate assumptions for solutions with attention to the individual aspects of learning between children and directing the child who has difficulties in reading and writing to the language teacher where the student can understand the mathematical issue and prevents The inability to read the issue originally and other means that can be used to enhance the basic sports skills of children in the various stages of education.

I agree with Prof Yasser Jaamour.

i am of personal opinion i agree with such an opinion and there are several reason for that, one of them is the method of teaching, math is complex than other books, so select a good method is necessary .

another reason is about centralization, student in the elementary school like playing rather than studying so using a game for teaching helps student to learn math.

thank you dear Sina for sharing this nice question.

Yes,this problem is really found in a lot of schools and different levels,primary and secondary school,undergraduate colleges students,may be because mathematics need to thought and more exercise,but the most of student want easy subjects, BUT ,if you ask me about mathematics I will say that : it is the most important and closest to my interest ,it is the best scientific matter and on the head of other science, I like it a lot.

best regard

Thank you Khulood Obaid. I quite agree with you. The problem most people have with mathematics as a course is foundational problem and lack of motivation. Catching them young like we are currently doing in our STEM program in my institution is the way out.

I believe the teaching method plays a big role in the child's acceptance of the material

The teaching methods are effective and important tools in the educational process as they play an effective role in organizing the study quota and in dealing with the scientific material and can not be dispensed with the teacher, because without a teaching method followed by the teacher can not achieve the objectives of public and private education

There are several hypotheses that the current study expects to be one of the main reasons for the weak achievement of some elementary students in mathematics:

For the student:

- Indifference and lack of focus with the teacher during the explanation.

- Lack of fundamentals and skills in the student to learn a new skill.

- Student feeling bored of the material.

- Do not solve the student's duties that ask him to go first.

- Inability to interact within the classroom.

- The student loses the language skills that hinder him when solving verbal questions.

For the teacher:

- The scarcity of the use of modern teaching strategies in the teaching of mathematics.

- The scarcity of the use of the modern methods and techniques needed to teach the developed curricula.

- The scarcity of stimulating the teacher to the students and stimulate their motivation.

- The lack of teacher attention to the differences of individual students.

- The scarcity of linking material to life.

- The scarcity of cooperation between the home and the school by the teacher.

For the family:

- The guardian does not follow the student to solve his homework.

- Lack of cooperation between the school and the school.

- Not to raise the motivation of the student and find the necessary incentives for scientific superiority.

- Unleash the student's enjoyment of entertainment and entertainment.

- Low educational level of the family of the student.

- The existence of family problems suffered by the student

Among the reasons for the weakness of students in mathematics: For the primary level 1 - The distinction of sizes: Complex quantitative skills are based on the ability to distinguish different sizes, and the ability to distinguish different sizes plays an important role in the subsequent understanding that the numbers are also of different sizes , And a child who is unable to know the smaller circle may face a difficult future in knowing the largest number of the two numbers.

2. Characterization of the problem: The ability to distinguish square from the circle of the basic skill for the future success in many sports treatments, and notes the inability of children to recognize the differences between different forms.

3. The relationship between one-one.

The children of Riyadh and the first classes with learning problems often face difficulties in understanding the one-to-one relationship. This is a crucial initial ability to develop the meaning of the number. For example, four people do not understand that four cars fill a garage that can only accommodate four cars. Critical attitudes towards daily activities such as passing pens, books or papers to each child from each group of study seats.

4. Count:

Counting is a substantial quantity skill in which students can determine the number of items from a group, and the number is often the first step in the calculation exercise. Some students, when they prepare aloud, skip some numbers (1.2.3.65) while others can count but do not understand The meaning to which the number refers.

Dear Sina,

students can like the prof. of mathematics and after they are choised the way of botany or philosophy...

But it need to understand the ability of students to the mathematic as science.

Best regards

Yes,this problem is really found in a lot of schools and different levels,primary and secondary school,undergraduate colleges students,may be because mathematics need to thought and more exercise,but the most of student want easy subjects, BUT ,if you ask me about mathematics I will say that : it is the most important and closest to my interest ,it is the best scientific matter and on the head of other science, I like it a lot.

best regard

I belive the teaching methods are hard for students. They must be crative and effective.

Part of the problem lies in the curriculum

The method of teaching influences students' acceptance or rejection of mathematics.