摘要:What activities do children prefer in primary grades? Are these related to what the teacher effectively does in the classroom? How are the teaching stereotypes mirrored in the students'representations about the tasks? This article presents the outcomes of a survey on a national representative sample of fourgraders that was focused on exploring the answers to these questions.Specific correlations are made for two subject matters: modern languages and mathematics.The analysis reveals how bad habits of thinking are inculcated by counterproductive teaching methodology.