CY Math Academy

Are your kids struggling to like maths at school? 📉

Maths teacher and YouTube hit Eddie Woo says one of the best things you can do as a parent (for any subject!) is to be a “curious co-learner”.

“Two of my kids are at the high school I teach at, and so we drive to school every morning and back home in the afternoon, and just having that time to debrief and chat, even if it's just to air frustration and say, 'I don't get this thing' and I can ask questions and say, 'Okay, what's difficult about it?'. I'm not teaching them anything at that point, but what I'm trying to model to them is the value of them putting in the effort and also encouraging them to be resilient.”

He says we’re asking kids to be like pentathletes, trying to master so many different subjects at once!

“We're asking them to do that and play mental acrobatics every single day. It's hard. So let's just get alongside our young people and empathize with them."

🎧 Listen to Radio National Breakfast 5.30am to 9am weekdays or catch up on the ABC listen app: https://ab.co/ABCListenApp
Listen to this chat here: https://bit.ly/4lemOtH