However, there is a misunderstanding of parents in mathematics enlightenment: a child can count from 1 to 100 at the age of 2 or 3, and he must be a genius. However, few parents have considered whether their children can really use numbers.
And mathematics is a subject that can't rely on rote memorization and needs children's flexible thinking.
This leads to the problems that children have now:
Can count from 1 to 100, but take out four apples and ask him, "How many are these?" The child can't answer how much it is, so he can only guess. If you can't guess, count down the number.
Most children just memorize numbers mechanically and don't understand the relationship between them.
In other words, it is unscientific to teach children to count 123.
When it comes to mathematics enlightenment, we have to mention the word "number sense".
Sense of numbers means that children can understand numbers as a counting tool and express them in many ways. For example, in real life, different items are used to correspond to numbers.
Experiments show that children before the age of 6 mainly think in images, and it is difficult to understand abstract numbers.
Simply put, if there is no correct guidance, numbers are just a bunch of symbols for children and have no practical significance.
This is because before the age of 6, children's judgment mainly depends on vision.
In order to test children's sense of numbers, the researchers did an experiment like this:
In other words, children's sense of numbers comes from vision, and it is essentially impossible to distinguish how many concepts. This requires parents to enlighten mathematics according to their children's thinking characteristics.
1, to help children establish the concept of numbers.
Just because a child can count does not mean that he understands the order, concept and meaning of numbers.
Check whether children really understand the meaning of numbers, and parents can test it from real life. For example, take out three oranges and three apples respectively, and let the children count separately first; Then mix oranges and apples and let the children count; Finally, repeatedly disturb the order of oranges and apples, and let the children count.
Doing so can prevent children from defining numbers for an item, but really understand the actual number of numbers.
2. Establish the concept of ordinal number
According to the children's mastery of numbers, prepare different difficulty axes, such as 20 axes, 50 axes and so on.
This allows children to intuitively feel the order of numbers, and then let them count forward and backward repeatedly, or every two or three. In real life, children can also be asked to use numbers to indicate the order, such as the first person and the second person.
3. The combination of mathematics and games
Math study is very easy to get bored. In order to stimulate children's interest in mathematics learning, mathematics knowledge can be fully integrated into the game when mathematics is enlightened. Moreover, the main way for children to know the world before the age of 6 is games, which is easier for children to learn.
When children are new to mathematics, they can feel different fun.
For example, when a child pats the ball, he can let the child count while patting the ball; If the ball falls in the middle, the child can count it or count it again. When children are relatively familiar with the numbers they have, let them count down and increase the numbers step by step in units of 10 at a time.