Kindergarten has a parents' workshop every month to let parents know more about their children's study and life in the Montessori environment, and also to let parents believe in their baby's development.
Sensory area, language area, living area, cultural area and mathematics area. Momo gradually adapted to the work in the first four districts from IC class (6 months to 3 years old) to CASA class (3 to 6 years old), and began to work in the math district in the first two months.
The work in the math area is still full of fun. Numbers, fractions, binomials ... These studies are not as obscure as imparting knowledge formulas, but let children know step by step through perceptual teaching AIDS in repetition and progress.
Bishop Huo mentioned to parents that perhaps when children first entered primary school, mathematics would not be significantly better than other children. In the fourth grade of primary school, the advantages of thinking are displayed. Therefore, a good teaching concept cannot be achieved overnight, and it takes time. Time is really a wonderful and magical thing!
Below, I have compiled some introductions of Montessori math area for friends who are interested in parenting education.
Montessori's education and the cultivation of mathematical thinking also account for a large proportion.
Mathematics development in early childhood.
Dr Montessori found that, like all human beings, children need mathematics, just as they need language, and they need to communicate in a very precise and accurate way.
She observed that the development of children's abstract concepts is based on concrete experience. The first three years of a child's life are full of concrete experiences. By paying attention to the attributes of everything around him, he indirectly prepares himself for mathematical thinking.
Inspired by what she saw, Dr. Montessori provided "concrete" mathematics for children. She created various opportunities for sensory exploration, allowing children to work by actively manipulating materials with intelligent purposes and encouraging the repetition of real activities. All these have laid the foundation for higher abstraction and imagination.
When a child comes to Montessori's environment, he will encounter more mathematical experience and prepare for his life indirectly and directly. Especially in the activities of the sensory area, children observe and experiment more subtle differences such as volume, shape, size, texture and temperature, and form abstract concepts. He sorted, clarified and organized his thoughts in order, and developed his mathematical concepts. He discovered geometric figures. He studied classification in the hierarchy. He classifies the world around him by exploring the environment. He began to predict and reason at a deeper level. So the psychological structure based on concrete experience began to prepare for the development of clearer concepts. Once these tasks are completed, children begin to concentrate on mathematical understanding for a long time. Therefore, systematic mathematics learning basically begins after the age of four.
Misuse of Montessori's Mathematics Teaching Aids
Montessori's mathematics education is world-famous, and there is no similar method in the early education of 100 years. However, this has also caused many schools to set up the so-called "Montessori Mathematics", which is out of context and very one-sided.
As mentioned above, mathematics is the last of the four regions, and it is also the last in the job introduction order that children accept. This proves that Montessori's mathematics is effective, because before mathematics, children have made full use of the work in living area, feeling area and language area to lay their own foundation, so that the activities in mathematics area can play their due role in children. If we only take the math area as a shortcut, it will not only tear the development process, but also make children feel rebellious and afraid of difficulties.
How to prepare for mathematics in other fields
Real life is the first step in preparing mathematics indirectly;
-Provide the logical sequence of actions and the logical analysis of actions.
-Provide accurate and orderly presentation.
-Provide continuous materials in the presentation.
-Provide orderly work and complete the activity cycle
-Provide error control to verify accuracy and achieve self-improvement.
-Provides the ability to repeat and focus.
-Providing the motion improvement required for machining materials
Sensory education is another indirect preparation for mathematics;
-cultivate accurate and clear perception through the practice of shape and form.
-Improve accuracy by accurately displaying and using materials.
-Express clearly in appropriate language.
-Cultivating the ability of sorting and careful classification is very important in the field of mathematics.
-Provide a clear impression
-the material itself is indirect preparation. For example, most materials are grouped in groups of ten (cardinality 10).
The six plates of Montessori mathematics area;
Group 1: Numbers within ten.
Cultivate children's concept of quantity and the corresponding relationship between quantity and digital symbols. The number from 1 to 100 is not important. It is important that children can understand and recognize the meaning behind numbers. For example, for length, 8 means much longer than 3, and 0 means blank.
Group II: Fractional Sum Operation
Establish children's understanding of the system of units, tens and hundredths in numbers. Learn to understand the essential meaning and operation rules of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Group 3: consecutive numbers
Through the practice of counting to 1000, we can understand the linear sorting law of numbers, find the relationship between numbers and practice the language of numbers.
The fourth group: exploration and memory of operating table.
Accurate operation, training operation proficiency.
The fifth group: abstract process
Before that, there was basically a one-to-one correspondence between the mathematical materials and the quantity used by children. Now, children's dependence on physical objects is gradually removed, and their ability to abstract numbers is enhanced.
Group 6: Scores
Let children know that quantity can be subdivided in reverse, and further abstract mathematical concepts.
Montessori's mathematics is so delicate that it's hard not to fall in love with it. It is not only a long-awaited touchable material for children, but also a welcome job for older children. Through the study of mathematics, they have enhanced their self-confidence, and mathematics has often become the favorite teaching demonstration of Montessori instructors, which is ever-changing and fascinating.