While his mother was cooking, a little boy secretly threw his two math exercise books into the bucket in the bathroom, and then quietly returned to the living room to play with toys, pretending that nothing had happened. When the exercise book in the bucket was found by his mother, the little boy said, "Suddenly a gust of wind blew and it became like this!" " "

..... This is a message from a mother recently, distressed that her children are so exclusive of mathematics.

▲ In fact, children are naturally curious about mathematics and numbers.

Digital concept sensitive period and mathematical logic sensitive period.

You must be familiar with the following scenes:

In the supermarket, a little girl saw a big number written on a yellow sign and asked, "Mom, what number is this?"

A little boy saw a bell tower in the street with golden numbers on it and asked, "Mom, what time is it?"

Several children, led by their parents, went to the playground by car. A little girl turned to look at the other children in the car seat and asked her father, "Dad, shall we play with 10 or six people today?"

In the zoo, a little boy pointed to the numbers on the zoo map and asked his mother, "Mom, which intersection are we at now?"

Maria montessori, a famous Italian educator, called these performances of children, especially children aged 4-7, a sensitive period of digital concept.

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 a teacher who is a professor of mathematics and is experienced in stimulating children's interest in arithmetic.

I remember one time, I was a guest at her house. During the chat, 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! " "

I was amused by the little boy's words. I can't imagine that an adult still needs to count his fingers, not to mention that his grandmother is a math professor.

However, what impressed me deeply was that the little boy calculated the arithmetic problem on that page three or four times in order to be a conscientious teacher. 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.

▲ What can I do to make my child's brain better and better at math?

There is a "late mathematical genius". Her name is Barbara oakley. She was poor at math since she was a child, and she was afraid of math.

At the age of 26, a strange but exciting idea suddenly appeared in her mind, that is, to study math again. At that time, she was a Russian translator and was proficient in Russian. She thinks it might be a good idea to study math by learning Russian. Because learning Russian must first fully understand the meaning of words and be fluent. You need to practice, try and make mistakes repeatedly in different situations, and then you really learn Russian. In short, practice more. She thinks the same is true of studying mathematics. Sure enough, she gradually became comfortable in mathematics, and later became an engineering professor at the University of Auckland (OU).

Why can you learn math as well as learning a language? In mathematics, children need to start from the basic principles and fully understand mathematical concepts as the basis, just like fully understanding the meaning of words, instead of setting various formulas at once. Figuratively speaking, how children move their feet when they jump Tian Zige's game is the "basic principle", and "jumping twice to the left and three times to the right" is the "formula". Coupled with the repeated practice of mathematical concepts in various "scenarios", mathematical concepts have achieved the effect of fluency, thus finally mastering mathematics.

The students of the famous KIPP school in the United States have brought their diligence and practice to the extreme. The children's report cards in this school are always beautiful. It is said that 80% of the students in this school surpass the students of the same level in the United States, and 90% can get parish scholarships.

In addition, the younger the child, the more the brain is in the stage of high-speed shaping. Some frequent behaviors in childhood can shape the brain, and skills will "grow" in the form of neurons. If a child often learns and practices mathematics correctly, and the hippocampus that shapes new memories is often activated, then the brain will get better and better in mathematics.

Therefore, when children hate math and arithmetic, they must have used the wrong method from the beginning, turning their math door into a "dead end".

Key words: sensitive period of mathematics, children's arithmetic, interest cultivation, parent-child rearing, early education.

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