"My children will read 100 when they are very young."
"My child can do addition and subtraction within 100 when he is 5 years old."
"My child can recite the multiplication table!"
If your child can do this, congratulations, the part of his brain related to language has been activated, but it has little to do with mathematics enlightenment. Wrong mathematics enlightenment will not only kill children's interest, thinking ability and other more important things, but also make children fall into the harm of "advanced education"
What is mathematics enlightenment?
Mathematics cultivates children's comprehensive ability, sense of number, sense of space, logical ability and the ability to analyze and solve practical problems.
Theoretically, we need to cultivate children's sense of number and space. ...
In terms of means, it is necessary to mobilize the child's sense of touch before the age of three, and introduce visual contact after the age of three.
But in reality, the most fundamental thing in preschool mathematics enlightenment is not this thinking and that feeling, but interest!
When it comes to interest cultivation, I believe many people agree, but in practice, I find that everyone has not really done it.
In my case, the interest is at the strategic level, and everything else is at the tactical level. As long as any content and means are related to interests, especially the standardized way that many people are talking about now, most of them will restrict the thinking mode prematurely.
Tactically, I mainly start from five aspects:
Playing is the most important thing for preschool children!
Math can also be played.
Let children "play math", which can not only stimulate interest, but also cultivate mathematical thinking in the process of happiness, and get twice the result with half the effort!
1, game
Children 1 year-old can start playing. For example, when playing with building blocks, divide the building blocks into two piles, and ask the children which pile is more if they don't count.
-this is the sense of number.
When our children understood the concept of "2", we also played the game of "Family Mobilization, Find Together".
Find out what these two bodies are together.
Two ears and two legs ...
Find out what must be used by two people.
Chopsticks and shoes ...
You can also prepare five task cards with 1-5 written on them. Whoever draws any number of cards will find a corresponding number of the same items at home. In this process, the number of children and the corresponding relationship between the number are established! And the cultivation of classification, modeling and spatial sense can be established in the process of playing high!
In addition, I also recommend a magical mathematics enlightenment toy ~! I don't want to introduce it here, it's all online!
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Picture book is an indispensable tool on the road of mathematics enlightenment!
Children are immersed in the happy atmosphere of the story and feel the wonder and beauty of mathematics, so they are naturally more interested!
Another advantage of picture books is to improve children's reading comprehension. Some surveys show that some children are not good at math, which may be because they don't understand the mathematical meaning behind the language.
For example, "What a funny shape! This picture book is a great shape cognition picture book.
Each shape will first be recognized from a single graphic, to a single graphic application, and then to a multi-graphic application, and the picture is still full of childlike interest.
After reading this book, you can imitate the way in the book with your children and play "Can you spy on a circle?" (Circle, triangle, square and rectangle can all be replaced), so that children can deepen their understanding of shapes by looking for objects with different shapes around them. Let children unconsciously understand different shape concepts through picture books and interactive games.
Another example is the book "Picture Book of Mathematical Games". Picture books involve mathematical concepts such as number sense, shape, difference, ordinal base and so on. However, the title of the story is the style of looking for a thief, the adventures of Hunger Island, the witch's magic pot, catching a greedy thief and saving the princess. In the process of breaking through with the protagonist, children begin to apply mathematical thinking.
Schools are more about letting children see the value of mathematics in exams.
For family education, it is more necessary for children to see the value of solving life problems with mathematics.
This process gives children a sense of accomplishment, enhances their self-confidence, and naturally they are more interested in mathematics!
Our Eric is a snack! And I especially like doing things.
So every time he eats oranges, Baba will let Eric be responsible for distributing oranges to everyone.
First, Eric needs to accept our suggested number of oranges.
-Establish the correspondence between quantity and quantity.
Secondly, according to everyone's needs.
Mom: "How many tablets do you take this time?"
Eric: "Two dollars."
"I want three tablets."
"I want two more pieces than you."
"I have as much as you."
"I don't eat."
"I want 1 tablet less than you."
This process not only establishes the corresponding relationship between number and quantity, but also realizes understanding through the change of corresponding quantity.
Eric uses mathematical thinking to solve problems every day, such as ordering food, setting the table and shopping. Although he didn't know what "mathematics" was, mathematics helped him solve the problems in his life and gave him a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence. I believe that when he grows up, he will naturally become interested in this "I don't know what mathematics is"!
For preschool children, in addition to stimulating and cultivating interest, it is also necessary to realize that "slowness" is very important.
Under the background of "taking the exam" as the main purpose, parents are generally anxious, and they unconsciously walk into the trap of "fast":
Children have little space and time to "see" and "think", just like eating fast food. Although it is fast, the nutrition may be uneven. If children eat fast food for a long time, it will lead to malnutrition and stunting.
Especially for preschool children, we need to slow down, slow down!
Comenius, a famous Czech educator, said: "A person's wisdom should come from observing the real things in the sky and underground. At the same time, the more he observes, the stronger his knowledge will be." Therefore, children should be given a chance to "watch" slowly.
For example, if you give a child a sandwich, you can tell him that it is a triangle, and then ask the child, "What do you think is the characteristic of this triangle?"
A child who has just come into contact may not be able to answer at this time, but he will "watch" there. At this time, give him some time to watch it slowly. When he asks you, you can "take your time" with your child.
"You see it has three sides. Let's count them together. One side, two sides and three sides. It also has three horns, one horn, two horns and three horns. So the sandwich is triangular. " You can draw on it by hand when you speak. Let the children watch and observe slowly, so that it is easier to understand what a triangle is. In this process, children's concentration has also been improved.
The process of "seeing" is naturally inseparable from "thinking". When children are quietly "thinking", parents should never get involved too much. Even if your child tells you the wrong answer at first, you don't have to rush to announce the answer. We need to guide or ask questions so that children can interact in the world of mathematics and find their own answers.
In this process, how parents ask is very important. Take Eric's childhood as an example.
Once, when cleaning up the building blocks, he found that the building blocks could be put back into the bucket through the gaps in different shapes on the storage cover. However, when he met the building blocks in the shape of an arch bridge, he couldn't put them in, and he began to worry.
I asked him, "Why did you put the arch bridge blocks in the gaps of other shapes?" Eric told me that this (cylinder), that (cube) and that (semicircle) can all be inserted from here (square gap), and the arch bridge building blocks in his hand can't be here, not anywhere.
In fact, there is an arch bridge-shaped gap on the cover, but Eric put it in the wrong direction, so it can't be put in. Slowly, he lost patience and the building blocks of the arch bridge were put aside.
With the last experience, I tried another guidance method for the second time.
"Eric, how can we put this arch bridge building block into the bucket?" A seemingly simple question took Eric to another road. He began to try various methods, tried different ways under my guidance, and finally put the arch bridge building blocks into the storage box.
Many people will ask, is this time very different from the last question? Great difference!
The first time I used destructive questions, the child didn't do well, so I asked why, which undoubtedly put him on the road of finding reasons and excuses. If the latter problem is not solved, he will naturally be discouraged and don't want to do it. After this situation is ignored by parents, the child's self-confidence will be destroyed over time, and he will think that I just won't.
The second time, I used constructive questions, which can bring children into the future. When Eric meets a problem, I ask him how to solve it and how to do it well, and he will naturally find a way. This way can be his own thinking, or he can ask you questions in the process, and then you guide him step by step until he finally finds the answer himself.
Therefore, scientific guidance can help children enter the road of effective thinking and cultivate and strengthen their independent thinking ability. Finally, I want to say that mathematics is really not so terrible and not so boring.
Parents need to take life as the classroom and interest as the teacher, so that our children can slowly accept the enlightenment of mathematics in the process of happiness!