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You are very wrong about this xlnt. You should understand more about child development. It's a useful number because it gets a kid playing with math. Encoura
by LPTS 18y ago
You are very wrong about this xlnt. You should understand more about child development.
It's a useful number because it gets a kid playing with math. Encourage them to teach themselves more about it, to play with it, but, for Christ's sake, do not give the child a terse answer more appropriate for a college student then a damn 6 year old.
Your attitude is at the root of why the entire edifice of mathematics education to children is completely soul numbing.
- xlnt 18y agoI wasn't speaking to a child. I spoke about the content of the issue. What form to present it in, and which content the child would be interested to hear, is not my affair; it depends on the details of their situation and personalities. I cannot hope to comment accurately about that. Nor can you. In the future I would strongly encourage you to leave out remarks such as, "You should understand more about child development." I don't mind if you state that I'm wrong, for clarity, but you don't know anything about how many years I've spent learning about child development, or how much I know about it, so it's not wise to comment on that. PS I upmodded you back to 1. I don't think you intended to be hostile.
- LPTS 18y agoAgain, no offense, but the set of people who understand child development and the set of people who would say what you said do not intersect. So I can infer that you do not know child development.
- xlnt 18y agoSometimes unpopular ideas turn out to be true.
- hugh 18y agoThere are two questions here: (a) what's the actual value of this idea, and (b) what's the right thing to say to a child who has come up with an idea like this, in order to give them the correct amount of encouragement without over-praising them? As the cold-hearted over-educated curmudgeons of the internet, we're allowed to answer part (s) without worrying about part (b). The kid's dad has to worry about part (b) for himself, but I hope the kid's dad has enough perspective to realize the correct answer to part (a) is that it's worthless.
- LPTS 18y agoI don't really think any reasonable reading suggests the kids dad was asking question a. Do you?