Only children with mathematical thinking will not easily fall into the trap when facing slightly complicated mathematical problems.
What is mathematical thinking?
Zhou Chuan, an associate researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and System Science of China Academy of Sciences, said in an interview: Mathematical thinking refers to the ability to use mathematical ideas and methods reasonably in the process of thinking and solving problems. Mathematical thinking is not a kind of knowledge, but a kind of ability.
Since mathematical thinking is a kind of ability, it is definitely not enough to rely on rote memorization, but also needs continuous application and training.
However, how to do it specifically?
How to cultivate mathematical thinking?
1, singing children's songs to cultivate a sense of numbers
Children's songs are not only very popular with children, but also their strong melody can help children memorize numbers quickly. After singing nursery rhymes about numbers over and over again, children can quickly reach the level of using numbers. Children will also be more sensitive to numbers.
2. Help children understand mathematics in the chat.
From the age of 2, children can communicate with their parents, and parents can add some math content intentionally or unintentionally in the process of chatting with their children. Such as body shape, height; The size and number of numbers; Direction; time ...
Children may not understand it at first, but with the continuous improvement of language ability, children's understanding of mathematics will further deepen.
3. Learn math with games.
Piaget, a child psychologist, put forward the concept of "learning while playing", which I always agree with. Especially in the pre-school stage, children will treat all interesting things as play, so if mathematics is integrated into the game, children will like it better and the effect will be better.
In fact, there are many games related to mathematics, such as building blocks and tangram, which can be used to learn shapes and count. ...
4. Understand numbers with your fingers or teaching AIDS
According to Piaget's law of children's cognitive development, children's cognitive development gradually changes from concrete to abstract, so children usually need to use their fingers or other teaching AIDS to understand numbers and their addition and subtraction operations before the age of 7.
Therefore, parents should not stop their children from counting with their fingers when giving them the enlightenment of mathematics. You can also use some sticks, building blocks and other teaching AIDS to help them understand numbers.
5. Math reading
The Soviet mathematics educator Stolyar said: "Mathematics teaching is also the teaching of mathematics language."
In fact, it seems that mathematics and Chinese belong to science and liberal arts, but in fact, mathematics and Chinese have many similarities. Both mathematics and Chinese need thinking as the foundation, and both mathematics and Chinese need strong understanding ability.