A normal week has 168 hours in it. Assuming 8 hours sleep a night[1], that's 112 waking hours for doing everything else, including learning things. In a school week, children spend somewhere between 3 and 5 hours in maths lessons[2] depending on various factors such as which school they go to and what year they're in. That, using the middle of that range, is about 3.5% of a teenager's working week.
 |
| TLDR: Model resilience & positivity, and engage with the subject in front of and with them, just like you would in any other area of their development. |
