There are various forms and channels to cultivate children's thinking ability, and adopting mathematics education is an important and effective way to develop children's thinking ability. Many psychologists and educators have noticed that there is a very direct and close relationship between the most basic mathematical structure and children's operational thinking structure. Because mathematics itself is abstract, logical, dialectical and widely applied, even if children master elementary mathematical concepts and learn simple operations, they need to gradually raise their perceptual materials from perceptual knowledge to rational knowledge through the process of analysis and synthesis, abstraction and generalization, judgment and reasoning. In this process, we can develop children's intelligence (observation, memory, thinking, attention, etc. ), especially the ability of logical thinking.
Therefore, the cultivation of children's mathematics can meet the needs of children's thinking development to a great extent, play a special role different from other disciplines, and has very special significance, especially its practicality, which is irreplaceable by anything else.
It is conducive to stimulating the enthusiasm and initiative of thinking.
It is suitable for the cultivation of mathematical ability, can produce the enthusiasm and initiative of thinking, is the main driving force of children's spontaneous thinking, and is the basic premise for children to acquire mathematical knowledge, form mathematical skills and develop their thinking ability. Children's mathematics education has created a good environment and conditions for children. Sufficient mathematics education content, rich, concrete and vivid materials and vivid and interesting interactive forms enable children to discover, ask and solve problems by themselves in the process of active exploration and learning, develop a good attitude and subjective desire for intellectual activities, and then form a positive thinking mode.
It is conducive to promoting the development of abstract thinking ability and reasoning ability.
The special significance of mathematics determines that it has a strong abstraction. For example, the natural number 3 can represent the collection of all concrete things with the number 3, such as three building blocks, three chickens, three planes and three white clouds. 3 is the result of abstracting only the quantitative relationship between building blocks and white clouds from the concrete object set with element 3. Children can use this to rise from initial perception to rational understanding. For example, using different materials, through various forms of activities, let children repeatedly feel the same number of various objects, on the basis of rich perceptual experience, initially abstract the same characteristics of their * * * in quantity, and correctly count and say the total number, so as to achieve the purpose of initially understanding the practical significance of a number. In this process, children's concrete thinking in images has not only been further developed, but also promoted the initial development of children's abstract thinking ability and reasoning ability through the development of children's concrete thinking in images, forming a situation of mutual promotion and common development of thinking.
It is beneficial to cultivate the agility and flexibility of thinking
Mathematics education for preschool children is varied and colorful, and many activities can reflect the cultivation of children's good thinking quality. For example, let children classify objects from different angles according to a certain characteristic (color, size, shape or other different characteristics); Addition and subtraction within 10 and so on. These activities require children to change their thinking direction, observe and think about the same object from different angles, and speed up their thinking, thus improving the agility and flexibility of children's thinking, which is a catalyst to promote other thinking.
Although the mathematics knowledge that children can accept is very limited, in the process of acquiring knowledge, the cultivation of their thinking ability and thinking quality can play a long-term positive role in their future study and growth.
It is beneficial to cultivate curiosity and interest in mathematics.
Children see a colorful world from birth, and curiosity is innate, which urges them to observe, think and understand the surrounding things and environment. It is the internal motivation of children's learning and the premise of their success in learning. This curiosity and desire to explore often need to be expressed through certain activities, such as observation, operation and questioning. For example, when playing a binary guessing game with children, they will be attracted by the magical binary guessing game, and they will be very curious about the numbers or objects guessed by their teachers or peers, which will prompt them to ask eagerly, "How did you guess?" In this number recognition activity, children's curiosity was displayed. It is this curiosity and desire to explore that arouses children's interest in mathematical activities, thus forming a positive attitude to solve problems and using mathematical knowledge to serve themselves at any time.
There are many forms to cultivate children's mathematics, which not only protects children's curiosity and promotes children's development, but also avoids the boredom and patterning of "mathematics" knowledge abstracted from the real material world. This will not only make them relaxed and happy, feel psychologically satisfied, have a positive attitude towards learning mathematics, but also have a good influence on children's correct attitude towards life and things around them when they grow up. Therefore, purposeful and planned mathematical enlightenment training provides children with a good opportunity to participate in various mathematical activities and get positive feedback from them, which can induce children to actively learn and explore their talent and creativity in mathematics, and then gradually have a lasting interest in mathematics, which is the main factor and motivation to learn mathematics well.
It is beneficial to the future mathematics study in primary schools.
Mathematics is an important basic course and a compulsory course in general education, so it will undoubtedly help them learn mathematics in primary schools, lay a foundation for their future mathematics study and improve their mathematics learning level.
By playing games with mathematical content, children can get in touch with and understand some basic knowledge of mathematics and gradually accumulate perceptual experience of mathematics. At the same time, using the horizontal connection between mathematics and other disciplines, children can intuitively perceive the beauty of mathematics (scientific beauty, abstract beauty and creative beauty). Mathematics is true, correct, novel, universal and useful, which can lay the foundation for children to form correct mathematical concepts and concepts in the future.
Children who have received pre-school enlightenment education before entering school have much higher scores in the two main courses of Chinese and mathematics than those who have not received pre-school enlightenment education. In addition, if preschool children get initial enlightenment and training in mathematics, when they are thirteen or fourteen years old, their math scores are better than those of their peers who have not received preschool training. It can be seen that preschool children's mathematics enlightenment education can not only make children master some superficial knowledge about numbers and develop their initial abstract logical thinking ability, but also have a positive impact on children's mathematics learning after entering primary school and even middle school, creating favorable conditions. Lay a good foundation for future study, and on this basis, develop into a higher, deeper and more refined mathematics field.
Conducive to life and a correct understanding of the surrounding world.
Infants and young children are no longer separate individuals from birth, but have various contacts with the outside world, especially the living environment is gradually expanding, from family and neighborhood to nurseries, kindergartens, parks, shops, streets and so on. In the world where children live, everything is presented to children in a certain shape, size, quantity and position. For example, children see that their mother's face is round and their eyes are big; The child's own small hand has five fingers, with different thickness and length; The toy ball is round and the building block box is rectangular; I know that a white rabbit has two long ears, two red eyes, three lips, four legs, a short tail and so on. Children constantly perceive mathematical knowledge such as number, quantity, shape, category, order, space and time in their own living environment, and inevitably have to deal with mathematics when they know objective things, communicate with people and solve related problems in life.
Therefore, it is not only the need of children's life, but also the requirement of children's understanding of things, and it is also the foundation of children's growth.