Cultural Misconception

            Issues relating with the cultural matter happened all around the world. The misconceptions are usually deeply implanted in the basic understanding and affecting  ones perception, even in the mind of the teacher which also coming from the same background.

“If interaction always has a purpose, it also has meaning for those involved. At its broadest, the teacher-student interaction is probably interpreted as having some form of educational meaning (as opposed to other forms of meaning that could exist between adults and young people). However, when we dig down to specific individual meanings for the interaction that takes place “in the school” there can, once again, be a wide variety of meanings for those involved. For the teacher, for example, these can range from “education” being a vocation – their mission is to influence and change lives for the better – to the idea that education is “just a job”; something that is to be endured because it pays the bills”

                                                                                                            (Chris & Tony, n.d)

From what have quoted from Chris and Tony, it is the matter of what the teacher is thinking about the teaching and that will be the matter of how he or she performs the teaching process.

            Another misconception is where, from the research of Sian Beilock, teachers who are anxious about their own math abilities are translating some of that to their kids (Karen Kaplan, 2010). The research are saying that the anxiety that pass through from the teacher to the students may lead to a misunderstanding that male can do better mathematics than female.