Mathematics has always been a major basic course and tool course in primary and secondary schools. Mathematics is an essential basic knowledge and tool for students to learn other cultural and scientific knowledge and engage in various practical activities.
(2) Early childhood is a sensitive period for the development of mathematical ability, and it is also a critical period for the enlightenment education of mathematics.
Montessori discovered the sensitive period of mathematics through a lot of observation and research on children. The germination of children's mathematical logic ability appears in the sensitive period of order (1~3), during which children show special interest in the arrangement, classification and pairing of things.
(3) Mathematics enlightenment education can meet the needs of children's life and have a correct understanding of the world around them.
Children live in the social and material world, and all kinds of objects in the surrounding environment are represented by a certain number, shape and size, and exist in a certain spatial form. Therefore, children inevitably have to deal with mathematics from the day they are born.
(D) Mathematics enlightenment education helps to cultivate children's curiosity, desire to explore and interest in mathematics.
Children are born with curiosity, which drives them to observe, observe, fiddle with, discover, explore and understand the things and environment around them. It is the internal motivation of children's learning and the premise of their success in learning. This curiosity and desire to explore often need to be expressed through certain activities, such as observation, operation and questioning.
(E) Mathematics enlightenment education helps to cultivate the development of preschool children's thinking ability.
Mathematics itself is abstract, logical and widely used in practice, which determines that mathematics education is an important way to promote children's thinking development.