Daughters who were not interested in mathematics since childhood almost got full marks in the exams after the fourth grade.

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Once I was chatting with my daughter’s classmate’s mother, and she said that she was envious of my family’s good grades in every subject. I said it was a big misunderstanding. So she asked me to tell her which subject was not good. I said: Math. Then she smiled and said I was being sarcastic.

I laughed, too. Think about my daughter’s perfect score in math or the first in her class every time she entered the fourth grade. I also said that she was not good at math, so would she have no friends if she chattered like this? But I think I’m telling the truth, because in all subjects, my daughter shows the least interest and conscious investment in mathematics. Judging from her childhood, her interest in mathematics is not much. But this doesn’t mean that we can’t learn math well, nor does it mean that we won’t have a strong interest in math in the future.

So, today I want to record my thoughts on children’s math learning and cheer up the children who have little interest in math like us. Then, how to learn math well if you are not interested enough?

This article was published by Huayou @ Sesame and HELEN in Little Peanut Writing Plan.

First, I will share my three key points about the cultivation of my daughter’s mathematics learning ability:

Cultivation logic

Understand the concept

Looking for patterns

Cultivation logic

Logic is the basis of learning everything, and logical thinking is very important for children’s growth. Mathematics is inseparable from logic, and the formation of a person’s logical thinking develops with rationality and needs to be cultivated from an early age.

1. Borrow picture books and mystery novels to cultivate logic

During my daughter’s kindergarten, I also moved all kinds of math picture books home, but what she could accept was very limited, and she often encountered the situation of throwing them out and not reading them.

What’s more, the three-year-old brother gave her his favorite logic dog, and the two-and-a-half-year-old daughter turned to leave after playing, which was a far cry from his obsession. What should we do? We use other picture books to make up for it. In fact, in addition to math picture books, there are many picture books with strong logic, and many picture books contain math knowledge and concepts. But they are more story-telling and literary than math picture books, and they are more suitable for children who are good at liberal arts.

Here are a few simple examples.

Speaking of picture books with strong stories and good logic, I recommend Gagurizi’s books. For example, the series "Crow Bakery" is all about solving problems, among which there are better mathematical thinking.

The following book is about the development history of the house, and thinking is a line running through it.

In addition, picture books with mathematical concepts, 365 Penguins, 12 Big Troubles of Rabbits and so on are also very good.

There are also Korean and Japanese mathematics enlightenment books, and Li Yupei’s mathematics enlightenment stories, which are also very story-telling.

In primary school, my daughter likes Sherlock Holmes, and this kind of mystery novel can also exercise children’s logical thinking.

Similarly, Keigo Higashino’s books will do.

2. Daily communication and exercise logic

Daily communication with children should also pay attention to whether the dialogue is logical and should be expressed clearly and concisely. Only in this way can children be trained to form an efficient and simple way of thinking.

In addition, having a debate at home or having a discussion on current events will exercise children’s logical thinking.

There is also a family reading sharing meeting that we enjoy. Every time, children need to clear their minds, introduce us to the content of a book, the reasons for recommendation, their own understanding of the book, etc., and also ask questions according to our sharing content. These processes are also a challenge to her logical thinking.

3. Exercise logical thinking through games

Letting children invent games by themselves is a good way to exercise logical thinking. Setting the rules of the game must form a logical closed loop, which needs to be rigorous and interesting. Playing games can also exercise logical thinking, and most educational toys are actually based on the promotion of logical thinking.

Understand the concept

I think learning mathematics in primary school should aim at laying a foundation. How to lay this foundation, I think the key is to have a process of thinking and understanding the concept. In the pre-school stage, we didn’t teach our children to calculate, but took her to know and be familiar with numbers from various angles. In preschool and the first grade of primary school, my daughter was fascinated by han sheng mathematics. I think this set of books is very helpful for understanding mathematical concepts.

Reading every book, we need to find the material, and discuss it while doing it. To tell the truth, it takes a lot of effort, but it is also very rewarding. During that time, the child shared a lot of her understanding of mathematics with us.

Looking for patterns

In daily chat, we will discuss and discover mathematical laws together. For example, on a way home, the daughter who just learned addition figured out the multiplication table herself, which made her very happy. After knowing integer operation, she advanced to decimal operation, positive and negative operation. In the process of finding the law, we have once again verified the importance of understanding the concept.

With the passage of time, my daughter has taken a little interest in mathematics. I think it is not difficult to learn mathematics well by doing the above three points (logic, concept and law).

Further share our experiences in the lower grades of primary school.

Six mathematical enlightenment practices

My enlightenment to children’s mathematics has always been in an unconscious state. But mathematics in life is really everywhere, and the so-called enlightenment has been completed unconsciously. The following are some enlightenment experiences in the lower grades of primary school, which may bring you some reference.

1. Counting and recognizing numbers: My daughter gave me great surprises when she counted in front of me for the first time and recognized Arabic numerals for the first time. Because our whole family didn’t realize that we had to enlighten our children at that time. But the child unconsciously learned it by himself. Why? Because we usually use these numbers. For a daughter, watching how adults use numbers may be as natural a learning process as using chopsticks. Integrating numbers into the language and letting children feel the meaning of numbers may be regarded as our initial mathematics enlightenment for children.

2. Know the score, percentage, decimal, positive and negative numbers: The daughter knows the score and percentage when cutting her nails. When children were young, they were impatient with nail cutting, so I used questions to distract her. How many have you cut now? How many are left? How many parts have you finished cutting? What’s the percentage difference? Unexpectedly, as long as you ask questions step by step, your daughter can answer them.

Going up the stairs and looking at the thermometer are good opportunities to know positive and negative numbers. During kindergarten, my daughter understood the concept of negative numbers and saw how to use positive and negative numbers to express different directions and deal with more complicated problems. Later, naturally, I understood the meaning of absolute value.

Go to the market to buy food, and naturally use decimals. In the first grade, I went to the market to buy food, and my daughter settled the accounts herself, which was very good. Buy more than a dozen dishes, yuan jiao fen can also be calculated clearly. In order to facilitate the calculation, she used decimals.

3. Deepen the perception of numbers in chatting: I am very willing to chat with children and talk about everything. We will talk about our favorite numbers and think which one is particularly different. Children’s understanding of numbers can also be seen from these chats. Including mathematical concepts such as approximate number, infinity and limit, we have all brought them in in small talk.

Here’s a girl’s opinion about numbers:

What is "zero"?

She said: Zero is the origin of the universe. You can find a number anywhere, and you can find a number corresponding to it through zero. Zero not only means nothing, but also has many other meanings. For example, zero can mean the horizon.

A useless number.

My daughter thinks that some numbers are useless, such as very, very large numbers, which are so big that few people can use them. Moreover, when the number you want to count is that big, you don’t care what it is. Others are because it has been changing, so it is meaningless to count the specific figures. For example, how many bacteria are there in the world, or how many bacteria are there in a person. It’s changing all the time, and it’s fast. If you want to say exactly how much it is, you have to talk about units much smaller than seconds.

4. Different solutions to a problem: I don’t pay much attention to where the child’s math class has gone, and whether she has done the problem correctly. I am more concerned about what kind of problem-solving ideas she has when she encounters problems. From simple addition and subtraction to complex application problems, I will discuss with her how many solutions there are. Now the same is true for her classmates. If the first method is not understood, she will use the second and third methods to answer it.

5. Break through a little bit every time: I like to let my children try what the teacher hasn’t taught. If you know the addition and subtraction within 20, you will figure out what is within 100 and what is within 1000. If you know addition, let the children ponder multiplication by themselves. Knowing how to multiply single digits, I figured out how to multiply two digits by one digit and two digits by two digits. Give children a chance to explore for themselves.

6. Develop thinking in the game: We don’t brush the questions, but we brush the games. Sudoku, board games and poker, these three items are all related to mathematics. Especially board games, there are very rich resources now. It is very helpful to train children’s concentration and memory, sense of space, logical thinking and problem-solving ability.

Share our mathematics enlightenment book list simultaneously

Like me, she hasn’t read so many math books. When I was a child, I liked a set of math games in Itsumi Taro, and later I was in han sheng. Now I just started studying terrible science.

In a word, I don’t care much about my children’s mathematics. I haven’t read any books about the enlightenment of mathematics, nor have I taken my children to study and practice systematically. I just learn what I encounter in my life, and I hope I can find more wonderful things on the way in the future.

digression

A few days ago, I posted a post in the hope that the flower friends would contribute to the daily performance of Niu Wa in Mathematics. Now I will share my statistical results with you.

Love to do problems: 14 votes (of which 4 votes mean love to challenge difficult problems)

Strong logical thinking ability: 7 votes

Like to deduce formulas and theorems, and sum up laws: 7 votes.

Like to sort out the relationship between knowledge points and master the links between old and new knowledge: 3 votes.

Like self-study (learning in advance): 2 votes

The other 1-vote items are: understanding ability, like reading math books, like playing math games.

Flower friends have discerning eyes, and all these projects are helpful for math learning. If we find that children also have such ability, or occasionally make such performance, we will encourage them. The above views are for your reference only. On the way of learning mathematics, I look forward to your company and getting better and better.

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