My son Jack took part 2 of his Maths GCSE today. Over the last few years I have tried to offer advice on studying and homework but I am afraid it has manly fallen on deaf ears. I have tried to convince him over the years that doing just a little bit of study and practice in math really pays off but he insisted on doing it his own way. It was not really until a month ago that he started asking me for help with his studies. He is not a bad student, getting solid Bs, it is just I know he is getting by without really having to try too hard, and from my own experience I know this will only last for so long without studying at home.
Now some of you may know me from high school in the US and at University in the UK and will realise this is me calling black arse to the kettle as I was not what you might have called a model student. Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow was my motto and I paid for it with some of the grades I got.
My sons school had/has a really odd homework policy, and either my son never gets math homework or he is amazing at pulling the wool over my eyes. I recall in high school regularly getting a page or two of math problems to do, and I even sometimes did them.
Now I could have tried forcing him to study but with his personality don't really think that it would have worked. I took my wife's advice and waited for him to come to me. So far so good. Now in the last 3 days I have been able to work with my son to go through and revise some of his math and I think we have also agreed that we will work together on the science and the math and no longer leave it to the school to teach any more taking responsibility at home for what he learns and how he studies as at school he finds it very hard to concentrate. We have just started going to the Khan Academy to work through some of the videos and practice problems and hope to be able to report back on what difference it makes over the summer.
Now some of you may know me from high school in the US and at University in the UK and will realise this is me calling black arse to the kettle as I was not what you might have called a model student. Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow was my motto and I paid for it with some of the grades I got.
My sons school had/has a really odd homework policy, and either my son never gets math homework or he is amazing at pulling the wool over my eyes. I recall in high school regularly getting a page or two of math problems to do, and I even sometimes did them.
Now I could have tried forcing him to study but with his personality don't really think that it would have worked. I took my wife's advice and waited for him to come to me. So far so good. Now in the last 3 days I have been able to work with my son to go through and revise some of his math and I think we have also agreed that we will work together on the science and the math and no longer leave it to the school to teach any more taking responsibility at home for what he learns and how he studies as at school he finds it very hard to concentrate. We have just started going to the Khan Academy to work through some of the videos and practice problems and hope to be able to report back on what difference it makes over the summer.
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