Getting Too Much Praise Affect Kids’ Math Learning?

Getting Too Much Praise Affect Kids’ Math Learning? According to article in Scholastic Instructor magazine, a recent study had been done in which eight grades in Korea and the United States were asked whether they were good at math. Then 39 percent of American kids responded to be excellent at math, compared to only 6 percent Korean eight grade kids. The reality was that the Korean kids were done far better in math than the over confident American kids. The point here is that praise a kid too much may be the studying block which is contracted to long believe of parents and teachers about building up kids’ self-esteem will help in kids’ math education, where if kids believe in themselves, the thinking goes, then the achievement will naturally follow.  However, confidence does not necessary always produce better kids. In school, normally teachers are not allowed to tell the kids that they are “wrong”, but have to say there are some better answers. Believing that this will help in boosting up kids self esteem in math. This also no help in producing better kids, where the kids like to have responsibility and all that comes with it just for showing up. Kids should be responsible for the math work they do, if they still stick to culture where everyone wins, everyone gets the credits, then they may loss the capability to handle distress that being told that they need to improve on something, because never in their lives have they been told that. So do you think it is helpful for kids being continue to teach that there is no such thing as failure in their life or should they be praised absolutely everything for whatever they do? Or should be time for us to change our long believe about praising kids in math?