Is there any difference between boys and girls in thinking, and who is smarter? These are the questions that experts and scholars are curious to know.
Russian physiologists have found that boys and girls think differently because their brains develop a little differently. As a child, girls usually remember more than boys, but as they grow up, boys may be better at associating and thinking.
Scientists once did an experiment: they blindfolded boys and girls, asked them to touch different things with two hands, and then said the shape of the things. It was found that the girl felt the same with both hands, but the boy touched with his left hand more accurately. This situation of the left hand being more accurate than the right hand starts at about 6 years of age.
Scientists tell us that the right side of our brain is better at recognizing space, while the left side is better at talking. A study by the American Academy of Sciences found that boys had better left-handed discrimination than their right-handed, indicating that they had a better ability to recognize space. After the age of 6, this ability is more concentrated on the right side of the brain, and the ability to speak is more concentrated on the left.
But what about girls? They all feel the same thing with both hands, which shows that their ability to speak is not entirely concentrated in the left side of their brain. Girls use both sides of their brains together to process spoken information, so they are more powerful at speaking and listening to sounds than boys. This is also why girls usually learn to speak earlier than boys.
But it also poses a problem. Because girls use their right brain to help them speak, they may not be as good at abstract thinking and imagining as boys. That's why girls usually do better in elementary school, but by middle and high school, boys start to be better at abstract thinking, and grades gradually catch up.
So, why is there such a difference between the brains of boys and girls? It turns out that when boys are not born, there is a hormone that comes out of the body, and this hormone makes the left brain develop more slowly, and the right brain develops faster, so the boy's left hand is even stronger.
Knowing the characteristics and strengths of boys' thinking, parents can help them better develop their mathematical abilities and make them math geniuses. So, what can parents do to make the most of their boys' strengths? This requires us to pay more attention to and understand boys' learning styles and interests, and encourage them to explore and learn mathematics in their own way.
Advice for young parents
Method 1: Make math fun and practical
One mother told me that her 3-year-old son seemed intellectually inferior to the little girl in the neighborhood. She tried many ways to make her son smarter, but none of them worked well. Later, she listened to the advice of experts and began to teach him math in the way that the boy liked. Every time she went shopping or walking, she would point to the numbers on the side of the road and teach her son to read. On holidays, she also lists the phone numbers of relatives and friends and asks her son to call to greet her. My son finds it funny and has fun every time.
She also mixed up towels, socks and other things in the house and asked her son to sort them by color. The son felt like he was playing a game, and before he knew it, he learned to sort and count. Now, his math skills are fantastic. Therefore, parents should remember to make math fun and practical, so that children will enjoy learning.
Method 2: More encouragement, less criticism
What do you do if your child gets it wrong in math? Many parents criticize their children and compare them to other children. But it's not good.
The right thing to do is to patiently work with your child to find out the cause of the mistake and tell them how to avoid it in the future. For example, boys are prone to make mistakes in calculations, and parents can analyze whether they are careless or wrong, and then teach them the right way. In this way, the child will progress.
Method 3: Let children feel the joy of success
When giving children math problems, you must pay attention to the difficulty of the problems should be moderate, not too difficult, and not too easy. It is best to have interesting topics that the child finds interesting. For example, you can compete together to do oral arithmetic, and whoever wins will have a small reward. In this way, children will find math interesting and more motivated to learn.
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