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Maria Montessori had a lot to say on the importance incorporating tactile elements in early education. This is why Montessori schools generally incorporate tool
by meow_mix 10y ago
Maria Montessori had a lot to say on the importance incorporating tactile elements in early education. This is why Montessori schools generally incorporate tools like the abacus (at least mine did). Not surprised we're re-learning some of her findings today
- nkrisc 10y agoThe Montessori school I went to didn't have an abacus for us to use, but to your point, the physical representations of 10^1 (a row of 10 beads), 10^2 (a 10x10 square of beads), and 10^3 (a 10x10x10 cube of beads) using beads helped me understand exponents much more quickly. Unfortunately we did not have a 10x10x10x10 tesseract of beads.
- roywiggins 10y agoI'm a huge fan of the Montessori binomial cube: http://www.montessoriworld.org/sensory/sbinoml.html http://www.montessoriworld.org/sensory/sbinoml.html
- nkrisc 10y agoOf course! We had those too. I had totally forgotten about that.
- agumonkey 10y agoJaron Lanier did experiments in VR with switched limbs, so your brain tries to make sense of a new "geometry". I also felt regularly that all kinds of inputs are very stimulating for the brain and bolden the memory. For instance writing down with pen and paper requires more brain activity than a keyboard. Computers seem faster for note taking but the ease actually removes the colateral inputs that stimulate/challenge your brain and thus helps learning (you also have to reflect about what to trim and how to organize your notes, thus creating so semantic map of the topic).