My son's kindergarten offers abacus mental arithmetic courses to children in large classes, but they are free to choose whether to study or not. Some parents, like me, decided to study as soon as they heard the news. We think that 5-6 years old is a sensitive period for children to learn mathematics, and abacus mental arithmetic can accelerate children's feeling of numbers. Some parents don't agree with their children to learn abacus mental arithmetic, thinking that preconceived mathematical algorithms will confuse the mathematical algorithms that children will learn after entering school. I agree with both views, each with its own reasons and different angles.
After hesitating, I signed up my child for abacus mental arithmetic course. My son went to find many friends who studied together, but when he came home to show me his exercise book, I was stupid first. A baby who can't even write numbers well has to finish four pages of homework a day and add and subtract four numbers after four classes. No wonder my son came home and told me that "mental arithmetic is difficult". He needed me to sit next to him and tell him how to draw numbers, what are plus and minus signs, what does it mean to write a row of numbers horizontally, and what does it mean to write vertically. My heart began to quit before the child quit. I don't know if the children can finish their homework according to the teacher's requirements, understand the teacher's teaching, and give up those playing time to sit for an hour to finish a lot of homework. Speaking of which, I'm scared myself. I don't know if I can help my children with their studies. I don't know if I have the patience to accompany them through this difficult initial stage.
Of course, some children don't need counseling at all, and they don't need parental care. They tried to finish a lot of homework by themselves. But my child needs me to sit next to him now, and needs me to take out a hundred times of patience to chew a difficult problem with him. He has been distressed, satisfied and distressed, but he still has to finish these homework. Whenever he is upset, I really want to give up, but after I calm down, I still praise him patiently and encourage him. As for my son, I know he has made progress.
If you decide on one thing, you must stick to it. This is my philosophy, unless it is all wet. As long as you stick to it for a while, I'm sure you'll see the difference.
Children learn abacus mental arithmetic and finally become a test for me as a parent. My mother told me, "Don't back down yourself, so that the child won't back down."
My son made up two more pages of homework yesterday, which took forty minutes. I am very glad that my son, who is usually so active, can sit quietly in a chair and think about one question after another; The son who couldn't write well in the past 1- 10 can now write beautiful numbers; I couldn't add or subtract numbers above 5 before. Now I can tell the answer without snapping my fingers. I haven't calculated the addition of three numbers, and the mixed operation of adding and subtracting four or five numbers can be calculated. After finishing his homework, he will also leave his desk with a sense of accomplishment.
I don't have too many expectations and requirements for how much children learn. I hope that children will learn to stick to one thing and face difficulties calmly. The road ahead is long, and the knowledge to be learned in the future is endless. Persistence and calmness are one of the keys to open the door of knowledge. I hope my son can find the key and open the door of his own knowledge.
Mental arithmetic is safe when you learn it.