This presentation describes and explain the truth about your children's future and if they can survive in this economy

1. Happy Children,
Great Career and a
Promising Future
The reality about your
children’s future, might
shock you!

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3. Areas Covered
• Will our children prosper or even survive in the
new economy?
• The truth about your children’s future
• Our children is at risk
• Opportunities or strategies to prevent these
risks
• How to evaluate these opportunities or
strategies
• A word from our sponsor
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4. The New Economy
• The economy is going through
the most drastic change in 60
years
• Not a phase or a trend but a
new way of life
• Many families, children’s career
and our future…are ALL at risk

5. What is this new economy?
• The age of a SURE income or
job after high school is over
• More businesses are
outsourcing
• Employers now have the choice
to select the best candidate for
a job from anywhere in the
world
• Many of our children will be
left UNEMPLOYED

6. Dropout Breakdown…
• Over 3500 students
dropout per year
• 9 students drop out
per day
Source: Education Statistics 2012-2013

7. More about dropouts…
• Dropouts are 20 times more likely to end up
in prison or jail than a college graduate.
(Sum, Khatiwada, & McLaughlin, 2009)
• Dropping out of school impacts students’
self-esteem and psychological well-being as
they discover that they lack the skills and
knowledge to fulfil their desires.
(Massachusetts Department of Elementary
and Secondary Education)

8. It gets worst...
According to the U.S. Bureau of
Justice
• 56% of federal inmates are
dropouts
• 67% of state inmates are
dropouts
• 69% of local jail inmates are
dropouts

9. Should you be worried?
Should we worried
about more children
dropping out of high
school?
The answer is YES.

10. Is your child at risk?
There is a high possibility
that our children might
commit a crime and end up
in prison if they dropout of
high school.

11. Summary so far…
• Dropouts are 20 times more
likely to end up in prison or jail
than a college school graduate.
(Sum, Khatiwada, &
McLaughlin, 2009)
• Dropouts who commit crime,
hurt people like you and me.
They also hurt innocent people
like children .
• 3500 students dropout per
year.
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12. Are families at risk?
What would happen
to your family if your
child drops out and
become a criminal?
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13. Did you know?
Yes it starts within the
classroom.

14. More information
• 70% of students who don’t pass
Algebra by the 9th grade drop
out.
(The California Dropout Research Project, 2008 )
• There is a clear link between
Dropping out and Algebra
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15. Not “IF” but “WHEN”
• Clearly our children is at risk of
dropping out.
• Statistically, it is not a question
of “IF” more children will drop
out but “WHEN”.
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16. What are our options?
Give up on our
children
Do nothing
Find out more about
why our children are
failing Algebra
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17. Why do kids fail?
• Most children fail because
of Math Anxiety.
• Math Anxiety is when a
child is unwilling to
attempt math problems,
has a fear of math classes
and usually become
nervous in math classes.

18. Why do kids fail?
• Math anxiety interferes with
your child’s working memory
and prevents them from
concentrating in math class.
• Most of your child’s working
memory is focused dealing
with negative thoughts and
feelings towards math.

19. What are the symptoms?
Children who have math anxiety:
• Believes that he/she is incapable of doing
math.
• Have a negative attitude about math.
• Unable to sit still or focus on math
lectures.
• Have a fear of answering questions
incorrectly in class.
• Tend to compare their grades with their
peers.
• Worry about how their peers would react
if the give a wrong answer in class.
• They feel embarrassed, irritated,
frustrated, and fearful Source: Liberty University

20. More Information
• If a child has Math Anxiety it is
also more likely that he/she
might have test and social
anxiety as well. (Perina, 2002)
• Students who are anxious about
math are less likely to continue
working on a problem if they fail
to understand it the first time
Source: Liberty University

21. When does the symptoms start?
Source: Liberty University
• Some students experience Math Anxiety as
early as third or forth grade (Jackson &
Leffingwell 1999)
• Most math anxiety occurs in middle school
when students experience social pressures
(Perina, 2002)
• Freshman year at college can also cause
Math Anxiety for students who did not do
4 years of math in high school or who took
a year off between high school and
college.

22. Causes…
• Poor test grades.
• Inability to complete difficult assignments.
• Negative attitude towards math by
Parents.
• Negative attitude towards math by
Teachers.
• Complicated math books that are difficult
to understand.
• Lack of motivation.
• Children see their parents having a job and
doing well without math so they believe
that they can do the same.
Source: Liberty University

23. Harsh Reality
• Most employers are requiring that
candidates have great reasoning and
logical thinking skills that can ONLY be
developed through math
• Most blue collar jobs are requiring
employees to have reasoning skills
• HINT: Not because you(PARENTS) got a
job without math means that your child
will
• Chances are they WON’T
• The world is CHANGING

24. More Causes
• Gender biases: Many teachers
promote the false idea that females
cannot perform as well in math as
males(Jackson & Leffingwell 1999)
• Explain-Practice-Memorise approach
cause students to lose interest
…teachers need to be more creative
• Teachers insisting that there is only
one correct way to answer a problem
• Students have a misconception that
they must do math quickly; this
speed causes nervousness

25. What do you think?
• Is it possible that your child
might be experiencing Math
Anxiety?

26. There is Hope
A research was done on effects
of humour on math anxiety
and test performance by
researchers at Western Carolina
University, University of Iowa
and Western Michigan
University.

27. Research
• In the research, 3 sets of
students where asked to sit a
math test.
• They were all told that it was a
difficult math test.
• Group A was given funny
cartoon to read before the math
test
• Group B was given poems to
read before the math test
• Group C did the math test
without being given anything

28. Who do you think performed the best?
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That’s right…the
group that was
exposed to the
cartoons before
the math test
performed
BETTER than the
other groups

29. What about their state of Anxiety?
The group
exposed to the
cartoons had LESS
anxiety than the
other groups
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30. Humour, Jokes and Laughter
Through humour, you
can soften some of the
worst blows that life
delivers and once you
find laughter, no matter
how painful your
situation might be you
can survive.
-Bill Cosby

31. What really happened?
• The humorous cartoons created
a positive state that was
incompatible with anxiety.
• The brain was temporarily free
from interference by anxiety so
it was able to focus on the math
problems and find solutions
Sample Cartoon

32. More solutions for Math Anxiety
• Have a positive attitude towards math and encourage your child
that he/she can do it.
• Help your child with difficult math problems by breaking them
down into simpler steps.
• Ensure that your child know the basics. Learning math is a
building block process, one step builds on another
• Make sure that the textbook your child is reading is simple and
easy in a language that they understand
• Make math fun, simple and cool
• Talk to your child about Math Anxiety and help them to
overcome it
• Motivate your child to continue trying after getting a math
problem incorrect

33. Summary so far
• Dropouts are 20 times more likely to end up in jail than
a college graduate
• 3500 students dropout per year
• Failure in Algebra is the #1 trigger of dropouts
• 70% of students who don’t pass Algebra by 9th grade
dropout
• Math Anxiety is one of the main reasons for Algebra
failure.
• Humour helps math anxiety.

34. So what do you think?
• If you are a loving parent who care for
your child’s future you would agree that
ensuring that your child’s Algebra grade
improves should be a priority.
• You would also agree that the best way
to help your child to succeed is to
remove Math Anxiety with cartoons
and humour.
• You would also agree that your child
cannot avoid Algebra if they want a
promising future.

35. Another important question
After learning the truth about
your child’s future and knowing
that it is not a question of “if” but
“when” they will dropout and end
up a criminal, you may agree that
you are now more concerned
about your child’s Algebra Grade?

36. Humour and Cartoon
After learning that humour and
cartoons helps to remove Math
Anxiety and opens the mind for
learning and problem solving you
are now guessing how you can
include humour and cartoon in
math.

37. What about books?
Do you think a fun book that
teaches math with humour and
cartoons will help your child to do
better at math?

38. If “Yes” you need to find the right
book?
What you should look for in a math book?
• It must have humour, cartoons and
jokes
• It must explain math terms in a simple
way
• It must breakdown difficult steps into
simple steps
• It must remove all complexities about
math
• Practice questions must be based on
what was explained to prevent
confusion
• Provides results

39. Where can you find math books?
• You can ask your child’s teacher
• You can check out different
centres that teach math
• You can ask your friends
• You can check the internet
• You can check the yellow pages

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