New Study Suggests The Main Reason Students May Find Math – Or Any Other Subject – Challenging Is Because They Don’t Know How To Handle Mistakes

Why some kids struggle with math even when they try hard is from Science Daily, and summarizes an intriguing new study – one whose conclusions seem a bit too sweeping for me.

As the article says:

Children who struggled with math were less likely to change their strategy after getting a problem wrong. Even when they made different kinds of errors, they did not seem to update their thinking in response. This difficulty in adjusting behavior over time was a key difference between children with typical math abilities and those with math learning challenges.

The researchers also suggest that this may be the key challenge in other subjects, too, and they plan to investigate further.

Whether this is truly the problem or not, it certainly can’t hurt for math teachers – and teachers in all subjects – to help students understand the importance of metacognition and monitoring and adapting their learning strategies.

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