{"id":2016,"date":"2025-02-09T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T09:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/children-get-bad-maths-skills-from-their-parents\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T09:05:11","slug":"children-get-bad-maths-skills-from-their-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/children-get-bad-maths-skills-from-their-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Children get bad maths skills from their parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-02-09 09:05:10<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Children inherit poor maths skills from their parents.<BR><br \/>\nUp to 30 per cent of people have severe &#8216;maths anxiety&#8217; &#8211; which can lead to sweaty palms and a racing heart at the sight of numbers &#8211; and parents who are afflicted with this are likely to pass it on to their kids.<BR><br \/>\nExperts studied maths anxiety in 126 parents and tracked the arithmetic skills of their children &#8211; where it was found that youngsters were worse at maths between the ages of three and five if their parents were fearful of numbers.<BR><br \/>\nKids who found maths hard during their pre-school years were also found to have poorer skills in the subject at the age of eight.<BR><br \/>\nThe study authors have urged parents to try and encourage their children when it comes to mathematical learning.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Kinga Morsanyi, senior author of the study at Loughborough University, said: &#8220;One simple yet powerful step parents can take is to speak more positively about maths and recognise that you do not need to be a special talent in maths to be able to learn it.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Even if parents struggle with maths, showing interest, enthusiasm and encouragement can make a big difference for their children.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-02-09 09:05:10 Children inherit poor maths skills from their parents. Up to 30 per cent of people have severe &#8216;maths anxiety&#8217; &#8211; which can lead to sweaty palms and a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}