Characteristics and educational methods of children's mathematics 1. Characteristics of children's mathematics
1. Mathematics is highly abstract. Mathematics is an abstract relationship between things, which is invisible and intangible, which makes mathematics education a difficult point in early childhood education. The Guiding Outline of Kindergarten Education (Implementation) clearly points out that the goal of children's mathematics education is to feel the change of the quantitative relationship of things from life and games, and to experience the importance and interest of mathematics from it.
2. Mathematics has strict logic. Mathematics is not the relationship of a single thing, but the combination of many things and relationships. Moreover, everything, every relationship, does not exist independently and has strict logic. Childhood is the best time to expand thinking, and learning mathematics well is very helpful to expand children's thinking ability.
3. Mathematics is a widely used subject. Mathematics is a subject closely related to life, and its most fundamental feature is its wide application. The wide application provides convenient conditions for children's mathematics education. Kindergarten teachers can teach children to learn mathematics anytime and anywhere through dribs and drabs in daily life.
Second, the importance of early childhood mathematics
1. Mathematics is the foundation of natural science and also plays an important role in social science. Mathematical calculation is one of the three basic abilities that human beings must master. With the development of science and technology and the arrival of mathematical informatization, more and more people are beginning to realize the importance of mathematics.
2. Early childhood is the starting point for children to get in touch with mathematics. If children learn creative thinking, independent thinking and flexible application during this period, instead of understanding the concept of mathematics by repeated memory, they will have a strong interest in mathematics and lay a solid foundation for children to learn mathematics in the future. It can be seen that children's mathematics education is very important and must be highly valued by early childhood educators and parents.
Third, combined with the characteristics and importance of children's mathematics education, this paper analyzes how to improve children's mathematics education from the following three aspects.
1. The choice of children's mathematics education content must be appropriate.
Early childhood education belongs to the stage of enlightenment education. The content of preschool education must be simple and intuitive, and children's thinking is just thinking in images. Kindergarten teachers must choose teaching content suitable for children's age characteristics, from easy to difficult, step by step. You can't blindly instill, and you can't add teaching content at will. This will make students study very hard, increase the difficulty, not only can not achieve good teaching results, but also may make students lose interest in learning.
2. Children's mathematics education must be closely integrated with life.
The content of children's mathematics education must be combined with life. Teachers should guide students to pay attention to everyday things in life, and transform mathematics knowledge into students' real life scenes for students to understand. Turning mathematics education from life into a subject and turning complicated and boring mathematics problems in textbooks into tangible things in life will arouse children's strong interest in learning, thus achieving twice the result with half the effort.
3. Children's math education must be more interesting, so that children can learn math happily.
(1) Change the original traditional teaching tools and use more teaching AIDS that are interesting to children, easy to operate and beautiful. Interest is the best teacher for children. Only when children are interested will they be willing to learn. Use more things that children usually have access to. For example, when children eat cookies or fruits, they can learn to distribute them themselves. How much is there, how much is eaten, and how much is left. In this way, children will have a very positive learning attitude, accept it very quickly and have a very good effect.
Because of children's age characteristics, it is difficult for them to concentrate on a teaching aid for a long time. Preschool teachers should always change teaching materials and teaching AIDS, and can't reuse one kind of teaching materials and teaching AIDS. Everyone likes aesthetic things, and children are no exception. We should use more colorful and aesthetic teaching materials and teaching AIDS to attract children's attention and stimulate their interest in learning.
② Let children learn by telling stories and playing games. Every child loves to listen to stories, which are vivid and interesting, and also conform to the characteristics of children's thinking in images. By inserting some mathematics content into the story, we can not only avoid the boredom in mathematics education, but also increase children's interest in learning. According to the textbook, children can also create some storylines by themselves, so that children can really learn mathematics in storytelling and learn to tell stories in learning mathematics, which is conducive to the development of children's thinking. Playing is the nature of every child, and playing games is also one of the main activities of children in kindergarten.
If some mathematical elements are integrated into the process of playing games, you can also learn mathematics by playing games in math class, so that you can learn mathematics by playing games, and really learn from playing in school and learning from playing. This is the most effective way to educate children in mathematics, and it is also the most suitable way for their physical and mental development.
(3) Let students learn mathematics by themselves through the operation class. Psychologist Piaget once said: "Thinking begins with action. If the relationship between thinking and action is cut off, thinking will not develop. " Kindergarten teachers should not only provide students with rich and varied operating materials, but also let students learn to operate by themselves and make teaching AIDS for themselves.
In the operation class, children can do what they want at will, give full play to students' imagination, and then use what children do as teaching materials to let children learn mathematics knowledge with their own teaching AIDS, which will fully improve students' enthusiasm for learning mathematics.
Operation class is an important way for children to learn knowledge. Let students use their hands and brains, which not only enjoys the fun in the operation process, but also expands students' imagination and thinking ability, and also provides very favorable conditions for children to learn mathematics.
The abstraction, logic and wide application of mathematics are of great significance to children's thinking development, but it is not that the more you learn, the better your thinking development will be. Preschool teachers must combine their own characteristics and find methods suitable for children to learn mathematics. We should not blindly increase the teaching content and deepen the teaching content of mathematics. It is necessary to change the traditional teaching tools and use more teaching tools that children are interested in, easy to operate and beautiful; Let children learn by telling stories and playing games; Let the children teach themselves mathematics through the operation class.