It is not difficult to see that babies can count from the age of 2, "1, 2, 3, 4... 10". In fact, although babies can already count, they don't know that these numbers represent the concept of quantity or total. It is not until the child is about 3 or 4 years old that he can count himself and count to six that he can initially understand the meaning of six toys. Therefore, at the stage when children are sensitive to mathematics, parents can start trying to expose their children to mathematics.

However, at this stage, children are thinking in concrete images, so parents should never let their children learn mathematics by reciting abstract formulas. The result of this practice is actually no different from that of a 2-year-old baby, which is meaningless. It will also bring hidden dangers to children's learning mathematics-because it is very difficult for children to recite formulas that they don't understand. At this time, the most appropriate method is to let children learn simple addition and subtraction by counting specific projects. This is actually the process of children's initial "understanding" of mathematics.

When children are 6 or 7 years old, they enter the sensitive period of mathematical logic. At this time, children can come into contact with our traditional math problems, such as "3+5=?" If children don't understand mathematics through specific toys or other objects during the sensitive period of digital concept, they should make up for it at this stage, because this is the basis for children to understand mathematics, just like the basis for building a house, and it is the basis for children to learn mathematics.

So preschool children can get in touch with mathematics and learn mathematics. The key is that parents should adopt the right way.

▲ How to stimulate children's interest in arithmetic in an appropriate way?

There is an old professor who is experienced in stimulating children's interest in arithmetic.

Her 6-year-old grandson gave her a "problem" and listed a page of arithmetic problems for her grandmother to solve. The professor is also very devoted, not only answering questions seriously, but also calling his grandson "Teacher Xiao Li". After the old professor finished answering the paper, the little boy also "corrected" it seriously, sitting at the table with a red pen and counting it over and over again, clumsily counting his fingers, of course. After the last correction, the little boy shouted, "grandma, you answered this question wrong." I can tell at a glance that you didn't count your fingers just now! " "

It's hard to imagine that an adult still needs to count his fingers, not to mention that his grandmother is a math professor.

However, in order to be a conscientious teacher, the little boy calculated the arithmetic problem on that page three or four times. Compared with those parents who force their children to learn mathematics and practice arithmetic problems, the old professor's approach can be described as "a must"!

This is actually a way of pretending to play games, but it is a "game" way to achieve the purpose of learning and stimulate children's initiative and enthusiasm. Therefore, when parents don't know how to stimulate their children's interest in arithmetic and cultivate their children's interest in mathematics, they can make learning mathematics more interesting and achieve the goal of repeated learning.