World Cancer awareness day 2k16

Know about types of cancer and make people's to aware on it

CLUB OUTING CAMP

Why always a day within the four walls of your homre or our office...
A trip may make us feel free and develop bonding within ourselfes
Yeah to promote this Rotaracters of Tirupur south sigaram RI dist 3202 have to make a trip to NELIAMBATHY..Mother's own country

NATIONAL CHILD HEALTH DAY

Each child deserves to be the healthiest he or she can be.  On National Child Health Day, we are reminded of all the ways children grow healthy and strong.  From the food they eat to the words they hear, children require support and opportunities to grow.

HOW TO OBSERVE

Go for a walk, play in a park, do some yard work or participate in activities to promote child health.  Use #ChildHealthDay to post on social media.

HISTORY

Each year since 1928, under a joint Resolution of Congress, the President of the United States has proclaimedChild Health Day.  This day was originally observed on each May 1 until 1960 when the date was changed to the first Monday in October of each calendar year.

In a response to a plea from both the American Federation of Labor and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs to proclaim the day, United States President Calvin Coolidge was the first president to issue a Child Health Day Proclamation while the resolution was still pending in Congress.

There are over 1,200 national days. Don’t miss a single one. Celebrate Every Day with National Day Calendar!

Gowtham Deen

Parents’ maths skills ‘rub off’ on their children Too

Parents’ maths skills ‘rub off’ on their children, say scientists

The study specifically explored inter-generational transmission -- the concept of parental influence on an offspring’s behaviour or psychology -- in mathematic capabilities.(Instagram)

Bad at maths? Your parents are to be blamed. Parents who excel at mathematics produce children who would also excel, says a study, which shows a distinct transfer of math skills from parent to child.

The study specifically explored inter-generational transmission -- the concept of parental influence on an offspring’s behaviour or psychology -- in mathematic capabilities.

“Our findings suggest an intuitive sense for numbers has been passed down knowingly or unknowingly from parent to child. Meaning, the math skills of parents tend to ‘rub off’ on their children,” said lead researcher Melissa E. Libertus, Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, US.

The study revealed that the performance levels for early school-aged children on standardised mathematic tests could be reliably predicted by their parent’s performance in similar examinations.

Specifically, major correlations in parent-child performance in such key areas as mathematical computations, number-fact recall, and word problem analysis were observed.

In addition, the children’s intuitive sense of numbers - that is, the ability to know that 20 jelly beans are more than 10 jelly beans without first counting them - is predicted by their parents’ intuitive sense of numbers, the researchers said.

“We believe the relationship between a parent and a child’s math capabilities could be some combination of hereditary and environmental transmission,” Libertus added.

The findings represent the first evidence of intergenerational transmission of unlearned, nonverbal numerical competence from parents to children.

The study is an important step toward understanding the multifaceted parental influences on children’s mathematic abilities.

“This research could have significant ramifications for how parents are advised to talk about math and numbers with their children and how teachers go about teaching children in classrooms,” Libertus noted, in the paper published in the journal Developmental Science.

For the study, the math abilities of 54 children between the ages of five and eight as well as 51 parents - 46 mothers and five fathers - between the ages of 30 and 59 were assessed.

Children completed three subtests designed to gauge their capabilities in mathematical computations, basic number-fact recall, and word problems with visual aids.

Parents completed a math fluency subtest as a measure of mathematical ability, and they were surveyed on the importance of children developing certain math skills.

Gowtham Deen

President Rc Tirupur South Sigaram RI dist 3202