GIFTED STUDENTS AND

BACKWARD STUDENTS
VANESSA P SUMAGANG, MS MATH
 ARRANGEMENTS FOR
GIFTED STUDENTS

• An enriched syllabus may be

proposed for them to provide to
them extensive and intensive
education.
• Really challenging, ingenuity
demanding, initiative demanding and
creativity-oriented tasks may be
proposed for them.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR
GIFTED STUDENTS
• Their learning should not center
around the text books but should
be expanded beyond with the
help of supplementary readers,
reference books and general
literature.]their system of
evaluation should also be more
reliable and sophisticated in
order to remove from it chance
factors and errors of various
 ARRANGEMENTS FOR
GIFTED STUDENTS

• They should be provided with rich,

efficient and print library service.
• They should be tag of the methods
like heuristic, induction, analytics,
project and discussion.
• Their self-study should be exercised
to the maximum by proposing to
them intelligent assignments.
• They should be largely left to
themselves to solve mathematical
problems and should be made to
enjoy full self-confidence.
• Mathematical problems proposed for
them should not be routine type or
mechanical in nature. Every problem
meant for them should be a type in
itself.
• They should be made to realize that
mathematics offers a real challenge
to their genius.
• They should be given opportunities
of collection, tabulation and
interpretation of mathematical data.
• In every possible way they should be
provided with quality education.
Two types of backwaRd
students

• General backwardness, and

• Particular backwardness
 General backwardness

• This means all-round backwardness.

• It is almost inherited and is due to a
low IQ which may be between 50-70.
• We can at the most raise it by 7 or 8
points.
 General backwardness
• The removal of this backwardness is a
joint responsibility of all the teachers
in the school.
• The mathematics teacher will be
required to pay special attention in
the case of his subject.
• If the case of the child is a hopeless
one, it should be guided
sympathetically to take to some
 Particular backwardness

• The child is otherwise intelligent, but

is weak in mathematics.
• Removal here is easier than removal
of general backwardness, because
the former is a hopeful case.
Causes and remedies

• Physical causes
• Mental causes
• Distaste for the subject
• Doubts about fundamentals
Causes and remedies

• Wrong influence at home

• Teacher’s behavior
• Mild sessionchanges
• Teacher’s reputation
• Apathy towards method
Causes and remedies

• Lack of practice
• Neglect of home work
• Irregular attendance
• Defective handwriting
• Examination system
 EVALUATION
• How will you locate gifted students in
mathematics and what will you do to help such
cases?
• What are the possible remedies to remove a
student's backwardness in mathematics?
• What are the main causes of backwardness in
mathematics? What are the corresponding
effective remedies?
• How will you discover particular backwardness
in mathematics, and what will you do to pull up