In life, we often find that there are huge differences in mathematical abilities between different children, which is reflected in the fact that some children have average mathematical abilities, while some children have excellent mathematical abilities far exceed their peers.
People can't help but wonder where those mathematical abilities that far exceed their peers come from, some say they are born. But in fact, it is natural to be different from mathematical talent. Children's mathematical ability is more obtained through parents' early mathematical enlightenment.
Love to play is the nature of preschool children. Parents can use this feature of their children to guide their children to play some simple number games during mathematical sensitive periods, which is helpful to help them construct mathematical thinking and acquire excellent mathematical abilities.
01 Mathematical sensitivity period that parents cannot ignore
Excellent mathematical ability is not born, but needs to be obtained through acquired scientific systematic training and acquisition.
But there is another factor related to children's mathematical ability that we cannot ignore. This is the "mathematical sensitive period" that every preschool child will experience, which is a critical period for children to form and develop mathematical ability.
When a child receives ideal training during the critical period of mathematical ability development, he will have a high chance of obtaining extraordinary mathematical ability in the future. On the contrary, once children miss the sensitive period of mathematics, they are likely to regard mathematics as a tiger or wolf in the future and will not be confident in learning mathematics well all their lives.
Children usually start to become interested in abstract symbols after they reach the age of five or six, which shows that they have taken a step forward in intellectual development, and also means that they have entered the sensitive period of mathematics . All parents have to do is to help them through the mathematical sensitive period smoothly, which will have a profound impact on their future mathematical abilities.
What we need to note is that the mathematical sensitive period, like any other sensitive period, needs to follow its own objective development laws, and the process cannot be advanced through artificial means. Therefore, parents must learn to respect their children's growth laws and not instill mathematical knowledge such as advanced and beyond the syllabus.
More importantly, parents should know how to protect their preschool children's interest in mathematics and desire for exploration. At the same time, they should gradually guide their children to learn to use mathematical thinking to solve problems in life or games. This plays a very important role in cultivating preschool children to perceive mathematics and then form mathematical awareness.
is obvious. When we do this step well, we will naturally promote our children to pass the math sensitive period smoothly.
02 Develop children's mathematical thinking
Preschool children who are in the mathematical sensitive period will gradually become interested in digital concepts such as numbers, arrangement order, quantitative relationship, and number operations, and have a strong desire for knowledge about various changes in numbers, etc. For example, some children will raise ten little fingers, dot with their left hand and dot with their right hand, and learn to count, which looks very interesting. This is a manifestation of children's interest in numbers.
Preschool children generally have to go through a process from intuitive to abstract. Which stage of thinking does a child be in? It is the stage of intuitive thinking? Or the stage of abstract thinking? As parents, you must be clear about it.
Mathematics helps preschool children develop their logical thinking ability, but also further develops their observation, attention, memory, and spatial imagination abilities.
How should we seize the math sensitive period of preschool children? Usually, the following two measures can be taken:
First, use the real objects to cleverly guide children
We can use the real objects to guide preschool children from the specific experience of "quantity" to the abstract cognition of "number" and develop their mathematical thinking. For example, the common abacus , bowls, chopsticks, bottles, toys, books, etc. in life can be used to guide children's cognition of numbers.
Second, prepare materials to stimulate children's enthusiasm for mathematical thinking
When we interact with preschool children, we must prepare materials that can stimulate children's enthusiasm for mathematical thinking in advance.
In life, we often find that there are huge differences in mathematical abilities between different children, which is reflected in the fact that some children have average mathematical abilities, while some children have excellent mathematical abilities far exceed their peers.
People can't help but wonder where those mathematical abilities that far exceed their peers come from, some say they are born. But in fact, it is natural to be different from mathematical talent. Children's mathematical ability is more obtained through parents' early mathematical enlightenment.
Love to play is the nature of preschool children. Parents can use this feature of their children to guide their children to play some simple number games during mathematical sensitive periods, which is helpful to help them construct mathematical thinking and acquire excellent mathematical abilities.
01 Mathematical sensitivity period that parents cannot ignore
Excellent mathematical ability is not born, but needs to be obtained through acquired scientific systematic training and acquisition.
But there is another factor related to children's mathematical ability that we cannot ignore. This is the "mathematical sensitive period" that every preschool child will experience, which is a critical period for children to form and develop mathematical ability.
When a child receives ideal training during the critical period of mathematical ability development, he will have a high chance of obtaining extraordinary mathematical ability in the future. On the contrary, once children miss the sensitive period of mathematics, they are likely to regard mathematics as a tiger or wolf in the future and will not be confident in learning mathematics well all their lives.
Children usually start to become interested in abstract symbols after they reach the age of five or six, which shows that they have taken a step forward in intellectual development, and also means that they have entered the sensitive period of mathematics . All parents have to do is to help them through the mathematical sensitive period smoothly, which will have a profound impact on their future mathematical abilities.
What we need to note is that the mathematical sensitive period, like any other sensitive period, needs to follow its own objective development laws, and the process cannot be advanced through artificial means. Therefore, parents must learn to respect their children's growth laws and not instill mathematical knowledge such as advanced and beyond the syllabus.
More importantly, parents should know how to protect their preschool children's interest in mathematics and desire for exploration. At the same time, they should gradually guide their children to learn to use mathematical thinking to solve problems in life or games. This plays a very important role in cultivating preschool children to perceive mathematics and then form mathematical awareness.
is obvious. When we do this step well, we will naturally promote our children to pass the math sensitive period smoothly.
02 Develop children's mathematical thinking
Preschool children who are in the mathematical sensitive period will gradually become interested in digital concepts such as numbers, arrangement order, quantitative relationship, and number operations, and have a strong desire for knowledge about various changes in numbers, etc. For example, some children will raise ten little fingers, dot with their left hand and dot with their right hand, and learn to count, which looks very interesting. This is a manifestation of children's interest in numbers.
Preschool children generally have to go through a process from intuitive to abstract. Which stage of thinking does a child be in? It is the stage of intuitive thinking? Or the stage of abstract thinking? As parents, you must be clear about it.
Mathematics helps preschool children develop their logical thinking ability, but also further develops their observation, attention, memory, and spatial imagination abilities.
How should we seize the math sensitive period of preschool children? Usually, the following two measures can be taken:
First, use the real objects to cleverly guide children
We can use the real objects to guide preschool children from the specific experience of "quantity" to the abstract cognition of "number" and develop their mathematical thinking. For example, the common abacus , bowls, chopsticks, bottles, toys, books, etc. in life can be used to guide children's cognition of numbers.
Second, prepare materials to stimulate children's enthusiasm for mathematical thinking
When we interact with preschool children, we must prepare materials that can stimulate children's enthusiasm for mathematical thinking in advance.
For example, when asking preschool children to classify graphics, they can first show them two different shapes and the same colors and two identical shapes and different colors to compare them, help them clarify the meaning of "same" and find different characteristics of these graphics. This will arouse children's curiosity and desire to explore, from which they can gain sensory experience in classification, and thus promote the development of their enthusiasm for mathematical thinking.
03 Help children establish digital concepts and develop mathematical thinking ability
Of course, we do not help children establish digital concepts and develop mathematical ability through mathematical textbooks, but guide and encourage children to express and explore topics related to numbers in life and in games. There are many examples like
in reality. For example, children see license plate numbers on the roadside, seat numbers when taking the high-speed rail, product prices when visiting supermarkets, etc., which are all the processes when they come into contact with numbers in their lives.
If parents can consciously guide their children in this regard, it will be of great benefit to help children establish digital concepts and develop mathematical thinking ability.
04 Avoid preschool children falling into cognitive misunderstandings in mathematical enlightenment
Mathematics has two attributes from abstract to concrete, and from concrete to abstract.
For preschool children, when we enlighten them on mathematics, we cannot break away from concrete practice. We must start from the specific things we are familiar with in life, and then gradually start the abstract thinking process of mathematics. This process is a gradual development process.
It should be mentioned that many parents simply understand mathematical enlightenment as "arithm", which is actually a misunderstanding of mathematical enlightenment education. Let’s take a look at a case:
There is a preschool girl who can fluently perform addition and subtraction operations within 10, which makes the whole family proud of her and thinks that this little girl is very talented in mathematics.
However, during a test, her test results surprised everyone very much.
When the preschool education expert asked her: "8+2=10" means what it means, she almost subconsciously said her answer: "It means that 8 plus 2 means 10". As soon as he finished speaking, the little girl had the words "victory" written on her face. What everyone did not expect was that there was no approving look on the expert's face, and it was obvious that this was not the answer the expert wanted.
The expert asked the little girl to give a formula that can use the "8+2=10" to represent specific examples in life. The little girl was stunned when she heard this.
Next, no matter what the expert prompts, the little girl cannot give a specific example that can be expressed by this equation.
Finally, she said to the expert angrily: "Don't 8 plus 2 equal 10?"
Her answer made everyone present laugh and cry.
We can see from the case that this little girl is already able to proficiently calculate addition and subtraction within 10. Parents may think that their children are little geniuses in mathematics, but this is just a simple calculation ability. In fact, the little girl does not know the specific meaning of the abstract numerical symbols. She was only taught by adults to calculate, but she did not really realize what the subject of mathematics means in life.
In other words, the little girl seems to be able to say the calculation results fluently, but she is a pure mechanical method of learning mathematics, which cannot prove that she has mastered the knowledge of numbers, and there is no way to talk about the establishment of mathematical thinking. Therefore, she lacks the concept of numbers in her mind, and finally cannot answer the expert's questions.
Generally speaking, preschool children are very interested in related mathematical knowledge during the mathematical sensitive period. If parents ignore the cultivation of their children's mathematical interests during this period, resulting in the child's mathematical interest not being satisfied, then the child has a high probability of "fear of learning mathematics".
In addition, we need to eliminate a common cognitive misunderstanding - believing that mathematics is equal to arithmetic. In fact, mathematics covers the concepts of arithmetic, numbers, geometric shapes, spatial relationships, etc.
If parents can eliminate this cognitive misunderstanding, it will help preschool children to successfully pass the math sensitive period without misleading them.
Conclusion
In general, if you want to cultivate your child's mathematical ability that surpasses most of his peers in the future, parents should have a forward-looking and preparedness awareness in educating their children. For example, grasping their children's mathematical sensitive period and tailoring some simple number games for their children, which will help them build mathematical thinking in the future and acquire excellent mathematical ability.
If parents can eliminate this cognitive misunderstanding, it will help preschool children to successfully pass the math sensitive period without misleading them.
Conclusion
In general, if you want to cultivate your child's mathematical ability that surpasses most of his peers in the future, parents should have a forward-looking and preparedness awareness in educating their children. For example, grasping their children's mathematical sensitive period and tailoring some simple number games for their children, which will help them build mathematical thinking in the future and acquire excellent mathematical ability.
