{"id":7288,"date":"2016-07-18T18:30:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T08:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profpete.com.au\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2016-07-18T18:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T08:30:39","slug":"math-in-the-news-everyone-can-succeed-at-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/math-in-the-news-everyone-can-succeed-at-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"K-6 Math in the News: Everyone CAN Succeed at Maths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do your students believe about their abilities in mathematics? Do they say &#8220;I can do this&#8221;, or &#8220;I&#8217;ll never get this&#8221;?<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/akk6RCcz8hY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Original article link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tes.com\/news\/blog\/how-everyone-can-succeed-maths\" target=\"_blank\"><em>How \u2018Everyone Can\u2019 Succeed at Maths<\/em><\/a> &#8211; TES UK, 6th July 2016<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure all teachers know about the idea of the &#8220;self-fulfilling prophecy&#8221;: if you start off believing that you have a high achieving class, they are more likely to do well than if you believe from the star that they are a &#8220;weak&#8221; class.<\/p>\n<p>This article focuses on the message that &#8220;Everyone Can&#8221; succeed at math, urging teachers and students to believe in the students&#8217; success.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend that you watch the video linked in the article, which has a really nice performance by a young girl taking the role of teacher &#8220;Miss Rose&#8221;, teaching a class of adults acting as the students:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/173324233\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/173324233\">Maths: Everyone Can<\/a> from White Rose Maths Hub.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Is simply being positive about students&#8217; abilities and capabilities really going to make a difference to the results that they achieve? And are some people simply born &#8220;with a maths brain&#8221; and others not? Please leave a comment below; I&#8217;d love to hear what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do your students believe about their abilities in mathematics? Do they say &#8220;I can do this&#8221;, or &#8220;I&#8217;ll never get this&#8221;? We discuss a TES article which focuses on the message that &#8220;Everyone Can&#8221; succeed at math, urging teachers and students to believe in the students&#8217; success. What do you think? Is simply being positive about students&#8217; abilities and capabilities really going to make a difference to the results that they achieve? And are some people simply born &#8220;with a maths brain&#8221; and others not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12],"tags":[40,5,28,4,41,23,11,26],"class_list":["post-7288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-math-in-the-news","category-teaching-mathematics","tag-math-brain","tag-classroom-teacher","tag-math-in-the-news","tag-math-results","tag-math-success","tag-news-item","tag-teaching-math","tag-video-item"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profpete.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}