I have to mention the famous Archimedes principle here. It is said that the king asked Archimedes to identify the gold content of the crown, and Archimedes struggled for days without a solution. One day, he went to take a bath and saw the body immersed in water, and the water overflowed from the bathtub. Suddenly, he thought of objects with the same weight, and the amount of water discharged was different due to different volumes. From this, he discovered the principle of buoyancy, which is called Archimedes principle today.

The enlightenment of this point is that after intense thinking and thinking, it is best to temporarily put down what you are doing and enter a leisurely state, which will make it easier to generate intuition and inspiration. Let children feel that mathematics is not all boring reasoning, and they can get inspiration from the world if they want to learn mathematics.

Thinking inspired by discovery method

Discovery method was put forward by Jerome S. Bruner, an American cognitive psychologist and a professor at Harvard University, in his book The Educational Process. This method requires students, under the guidance of teachers, to discover the causal relationship of things and their internal relations, form concepts and obtain principles through their own exploration and research, just like scientists discover truth.

Professor Bruner believes that to cultivate creative scientific and technological talents, we should not only master conceptual things, but also pay attention to cultivating students' exploratory attitude towards learning, so we will strongly advocate the use of discovery method.

For example, if you want to learn to draw a circle, don't tell your child how to draw it first. Paper and compasses are ready-made. Let children satisfy their curiosity of operating compasses and discover the methods and steps of drawing circles by themselves. This will keep the child's thinking in a state of excitement, and at the same time, he will find problems by himself.