First, the ability to understand
Understanding is a very critical basic ability. Without understanding, children will have great problems in their studies. I once saw a five-year-old child and gave him five strawberries. He knew it was five, but if he was given five apples, he couldn't count how many, which made his parents very angry.
In fact, this is a question of understanding. To cultivate children's understanding ability, it is necessary to educate children at different levels and from different angles.
For example, we can let children know numbers in different ways, such as objects, things, toys, pictures and so on. , rather than always in one way;
For example, triangles can be understood in different ways, such as drawing, building with wooden sticks and looking for triangles in life.
Parents must be patient and slowly guide their children to understand at multiple levels, instead of pursuing an overnight effect.
Second, focus.
There is a saying that "genius is first and foremost focused". Good concentration, children learn well, and their abilities in all aspects will be improved.
For young children, their concentration is inherently difficult to last, and the concentration of one thing is easily attracted and transferred by other things, such as hearing a loud noise. Therefore, to cultivate children's concentration, on the one hand, it needs training, on the other hand, it needs to protect children's concentration.
The key to training children's concentration is to stimulate children's curiosity with life scenes and to stimulate children to think about one thing continuously with games;
The key to protecting children's concentration is not to disturb them easily. Montessori believes that "don't disturb children unless invited." Therefore, when children play games, don't ask them from time to time whether they are thirsty or hungry. This destroyed their concentration.
Third, computing power.
Calculation is the basis of mathematics learning, but mathematics is not equal to calculation. The key is not to know 1+ 1=2, but how 1+ 1 equals 2. Therefore, it is necessary to avoid letting children learn to calculate by reciting the formulas of addition and subtraction, and let them understand 1+65438 through physical demonstration. There are always two * * *, eat one, or take one away, leaving 1, so that children can understand that taking away is reducing. With this set of thinking foundation, children can learn to calculate.
Fourth, the sense of number.
Number sense refers to the sensitivity of children to numbers. A child who has a good sense of numbers will learn math more smoothly. It should be emphasized that the sense of number is not innate, but is slowly cultivated by parents in the later period. So how to cultivate children's sense of number? Here are three simple suggestions for everyone:
1, practice counting more and make good use of some scenes in life, such as how many bowls to eat, how many pairs of chopsticks to use, how many legs and doors there are on the table, and so on.
2, exposure to larger numbers, in daily education, don't just be limited to 10, 20 and other numbers. Learn to expose children to larger numbers, such as a bag of raisins, which may be hundreds; Shopping in the supermarket may cost hundreds or even thousands. Let children be exposed to bigger numbers and have a better understanding of them.
3, learn to estimate, estimation is a very important ability, we can start with a very small number, for example, let children have a look, without counting, you can know the number within five, and gradually expand to 10, 100. Of course, the bigger the number, the more inaccurate it is. What we want is a rough estimate.