{"id":347,"date":"2020-02-10T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/?p=347"},"modified":"2020-02-10T21:53:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T21:53:36","slug":"a-negative-image-of-mathematics-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/2020\/02\/10\/a-negative-image-of-mathematics-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"A negative image of mathematics teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is simple arithmetic that helped Arthur Clarke to arrive at a solution to the millennium mystery. Probably you all would like to learn mathematics from him, and not your teacher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/image-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Image result for A negative image of mathematics teachers\" class=\"wp-image-348\" width=\"431\" height=\"316\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers attached to a university in England thought of a unique study: suspecting that children invariably do not like their mathematics teachers, they prompted some 300 children of 12 and 13 years to draw how their teachers appeared to them. Except for a few, the portraits were not very complimentary to them!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the prominent features were bald heads, beards, spectacles, wrinkles on their foreheads, as cowl on their faces, and a pair of fear-some horns! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fuelgreatminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bad-math-teacher_med.jpeg\" alt=\"Image result for A negative image of mathematics teachers\" width=\"460\" height=\"352\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the remarks made by the children included: \u201cmathematicians have no friends, except other mathematicians\u201d; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cthey areshort-tempered\u201d; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cthey have no sociallife\u201d; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cthey force children to do sums at gun-point\u201d etc, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers are now trying to give a better image to maths teachers. The 300children were drawn from Britain, Sweden, Norway, Fin-land, Germany, Romania, India and the USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>It is simple arithmetic that helped Arthur Clarke to arrive at a solution to the millennium mystery. Probably you all would like to learn mathematics&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,44],"tags":[9,60,59,55,57,58],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-technology","tag-chandamama","tag-mathematics","tag-maths","tag-moral","tag-story","tag-teacher"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chandamama.in\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}