Now many families attach great importance to early education, which is very gratifying. However, there are still many parents who go astray in early education, which has caused serious consequences, such as math education for young children. Some parents report that children are obviously literate and good at Chinese, but they can't achieve ideal results in mathematics learning, and even reject mathematics. There is no doubt about children's ability to accept knowledge, and the reason for the bad influence is that parents' understanding of mathematics education is vague and they have gone into the misunderstanding of education.
Myth 1: You don't need math education before you enter school, but you can teach it later.
It is found that 1 year-old is the key period for infants to master the concept of elementary numbers; About 2 years old is a critical period for the development of infants' computing ability. If you miss the training in the critical period, you will lose interest in mathematics. After entering the school, your child will have a hard time studying, and even get tired of learning or give up learning. In other words, if we don't develop the left brain called "digital brain" in time, we will lose our children's studies and future.
Myth 2: You can simply count before entering school.
Numbers are written symbols used to represent numbers. Simply teaching children to count is of little practical significance to learning mathematics, which is why some children can count to 100, but they can't tell which is bigger, 5 or 7. In other words, ignoring preschool mathematics education will hinder the development of children's mathematical thinking and logical thinking, resulting in children's lack of abstract generalization ability and problem-solving ability.
Myth 3: The content and form of children's mathematics education should be decided by parents.
What kind of math education is your child receiving? Many parents' answers are: count, recognize numbers, count the total, and so on. Objectively speaking, this is not real mathematics education, but the transplantation of parents' knowledge or ideas. Children's mathematics education should conform to their own learning characteristics, otherwise it will hinder the development and use of children's brains, resulting in children's lack of observation ability, thinking ability, ability to analyze and solve problems, lack of exploration spirit and innovative consciousness, and will be eliminated by the wave of science and technology.
Myth 4: Learning mathematics means learning the application and calculation of formulas.
Children's mathematics education not only teaches all kinds of knowledge, but also teaches children to understand and think deeply about problem situations, analyze and solve problems, and cultivate children's rational thinking character and critical thinking ability. Ignoring or divorced from this ultimate goal, we can only create a problem-solving machine with weak thinking flexibility and no innovative ability to draw inferences from others.
Myth 5: Mathematics is too abstract, and the effect of family education is not obvious.
In fact, mathematics is in life, such as telephone numbers, shop shopping and so on. And mathematics education for children can also make remarkable achievements in life. The key is that parents should choose an educational method that conforms to their children's learning characteristics, and link the development of their children's brains with life-oriented mathematics education. Children not only learn knowledge in lively situations, but also learn to solve problems perfectly with mathematical thinking.
Myth 6: The quality of learning mathematics has nothing to do with the achievements of other subjects.