Is mathematics important? Extremely important! That is the foundation of children's future life.

Not to mention the daily business calculations. There has been a lot of discussion about critical illness insurance recently. Let's take an example of buying insurance (commercial insurance is definitely a necessity). Buy critical illness insurance for children. Which of the following two schemes do you choose?

The insurance plan 1: 1000 pays 500,000 yuan every year to guarantee the children to be 25 years old. In case of serious illness or death, pay 500,000 yuan and terminate the contract. Otherwise, the annual premium will be regarded as consumption.

Insurance scheme 2: Pay 8,000 yuan a year to cover 500,000 yuan, and guarantee the children to be 85 years old. If he is seriously ill or dies, he will pay 500,000 yuan and the contract will be terminated. Otherwise, when the child is 85 years old, he will receive 500 thousand as a pension.

Buy a fund, one has just been issued, the price is 1 yuan, and the other has been in operation for many years, and the price is more than 30 yuan. How do you choose? Which one do you choose?

Buy stocks, a few dollars a share, 200 yuan a share. How do you choose? Which one do you choose?

I have seen many people (in finance) choose cheap prices as one of the reasons.

How to choose average capital and equal principal and interest when buying real estate loans?

The above examples are all the applications of mathematics in daily life. What is the role of mathematics in art?

Music: Einstein said that the world can be composed of notes or mathematical formulas. Why are there more excellent composers than women? The analysis of multiple intelligence theory is that male spatial intelligence is generally superior to female spatial intelligence.

Painting: (I don't understand), proportion, perspective ... Italian Renaissance master leonardo da vinci once said, "No one can appreciate my work except mathematicians."

Mathematics is a powerful tool to promote scientific development. For example, non-Euclidean geometry provided a powerful mathematical tool for Einstein to establish general relativity. It is estimated that if Gauss publishes his research results in time, the whole higher mathematics can advance for 50 years! Therefore, if advanced mathematics is really delayed for 50 years, it will be an immeasurable loss for the whole scientific community!

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I remember once talking to UU's father about the characteristics of our park, and I said that we paid special attention to math and science education. A visiting colleague asked this question, and I answered it the same way. The other party said that you are too rational, and children need more emotional things. In fact, from my observation, mathematics and science education in preschool education have been seriously neglected. Mathematics and science education is by no means learning to count and doing experiments. Nearly 100 kindergarten teachers have been interviewed in the past two years. Most of the skills of kindergarten teachers are concentrated on the skills of doing manual work, drawing, dancing and singing nursery rhymes. The understanding of mathematics and science can be said to be a serious shortage. They are not well prepared for preschool education, especially preschool mathematics education. Books about children's mathematics and science education at home and abroad also mention that most kindergarten teachers are afraid of mathematics and science teaching.

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How is our mathematics education done?

At the stage when there is no systematic mathematics curriculum and teaching, children have begun to develop informal mathematical understanding through communication and contact with objects and others. They have many opportunities to think and compare the number of objects, gain knowledge about spatial relations, and use these budding knowledge to solve some simple problems.

For example, bring two snacks to the table, one for me and one for you. Constructing mathematical knowledge is a natural process, and this basic understanding is initially formed when children are about 3 years old.

Although all children have plenty of opportunities to contact and observe objects (locked in the classroom with teachers and covered with artificial grass on the playground), are there many opportunities for kindergarten children who only do infant gymnastics? ), I also understand that three crayons are more than two. However, it is not enough for children to have self-observation and experience. They need specific guidance to deepen and expand their math knowledge and skills.

Last year, we started the activity of "talking about new things on the way to school". We can find that because of this topic activity, children pay more attention to things on the road-otherwise, they will turn a blind eye and ignore them.

To achieve this goal, we need two kinds of experiences: children's spontaneous and self-directed behavior; Teachers, parents or older children provide information to challenge their existing understanding. These two experiences are indispensable to the development of children's mathematical knowledge.

At the same time, we pay attention to these two experiences: the experience that children can participate by themselves, and the experience that teachers can interact with the material with a little touch; And the teacher's experience in planning and promotion.

This is also the basis of our garden idea: children are active learners.

Children learn best when they explore according to their own interests with the support and guidance of adults.

As active learners, children have the opportunity to initiate activities and follow their own interests. Teachers also use their own activities to guide children to actively participate and respond positively. We help and support children's learning through these two types of activities.

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The content of our mathematics education.

We hope to concentrate on learning 26 core mathematical concepts in the whole kindergarten for 3-4 years, covering 9 areas of mathematical learning: set, number sense, number, number operation, mode, measurement, data analysis, spatial relationship and graphics. These key mathematical concepts have laid a solid foundation for children's lifelong mathematical learning and thinking.