Researchers from Stanford have found that having a positive attitude about learning might actually help you learn better. Scientists did fMRI studies of children, and found that not only did children who said they liked learning math do better at math, but that they had more brain activity in the hippocampus as well. It seems that liking a subject can actually help you learn the subject better, so if parents are struggling to help their children learn, fostering a positive attitude around learning might help.

Key Takeaways:

• Scientists and educators have found that when children take a more positive attitude towards mathematics, they tend to do better in the subject.
• Researchers believe there is a way to improve your children’s brain by teaching them to be more positive towards things they’re learning and their overall potential.
• Scientists can’t confirm just how much the positive approach helps, but the overall ability to improve being directly related to positivity is true.

“The researchers caution that their study can’t pin down exactly how much achievement is down to prior math success and how much is because of the way positivity pumps up learning in the brain.”

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