Do You Need Better English for Best Mathematics? Similarly, Computer Science and Communication!! 20% drop in Maths Performance due to less understanding of words! How does a Metro, City, Town Student perform in Maths?!! Read this interesting perspective!!

Dear Friends and Students

Today I received an interesting WhatsApp message (The Print Article on Countingwell App survey) regarding how Mathes performance is linked to English! Poor language comprehension skills (English Paragraph and words understanding) results in a 20 % drop in maths performance from Class 7 onwards. India wide only 28% of them showed good comprehension skills. Interestingly there is no difference between metro vs. town vs city (Tier 1 vs Tier 2 vs Tier 3). There is no difference between male and female. One of the critical reasons is Maths teachers do not lay emphasis on language comprehension. English proficiency is a statistically significant predictor of mathematics scores.

If you dwell deeply, mathematics is a language of science. Mathematics described different situations of day to day life. Mathematics is a universal language such as English. Let me share a simple example on how mathematics performance is linked to English. How many are left? It confuses the student. Similarly, words like sum, whole mathematical words also confuse the student. Often we see mathematics teachers teaching in the local language!! We should encourage mathematics teachers to teach in English and build stories to solve!

All the competitive coding platforms like leetcode, codechef, codeforce, hackerearth, hackerank, etc focus on problems (described in English paragraph) to solve using computer programming. This is the extension of mathematics. The same language vs. maths vs. coding issue comes. It is also proven that a good coder needs good comprehension skills. They should be able to understand the problem well. Now it directs a computer science teacher who needs to be good in communication.

Michael et.al published a wonderful article on The Language of “Rate of Change '' in Mathematics (Eur J Investig Health Psychol Educ., 2021). It is mind boggling to know, this simple word “Rate of Change '' is used in multiple contexts differently. Average rate of change is Ratio, Slope, Rise over Run, Quotient! Instantaneous rate of change is derivative, tangent!! Constant rate of change is positive or zero or negative. Varying rate of change is + or 0 or – or increasing or decreasing!! Rate of change in multiple applications like speed, velocity, acceleration, power, kinetic energy and so on!! Now Can a Mathematics teacher omit English when this simple word is described differently in multiple contexts?

Mathes Teacher Must Make & Ease Communication!!

Computer Science Teacher Must Complement and Comprehend Communication!!!

Do You Agree with Better English for Best Mathematics and Best Programming?

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Ravi Saripalle