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> Presumably this person has no experience with 6 year olds? In case anyone is curious, this person has experience teaching children mathematics. For example,
by areyousure 3y ago
> Presumably this person has no experience with 6 year olds?
In case anyone is curious, this person has experience teaching children mathematics. For example, on his blog, we have
http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-six-year-olds/ http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-six-year-olds/
http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-seven-year-olds-graph-coloring-chromatic-numbers-eulerian-paths/ http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-seven-year-olds-graph-colori...
http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-eight-year-olds/ http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-eight-year-olds/
http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-nine-year-olds-fold-punch-cut/ http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-nine-year-olds-fold-punch-cu...
The most recent post in his category "Math for Kids" is in fact teaching how to count ordinals up to omega-squared: http://jdh.hamkins.org/counting-to-infinity-poster/ http://jdh.hamkins.org/counting-to-infinity-poster/
- logifail 3y ago> this person has experience teaching children mathematics Just as a FYI, there are plenty of countries in Europe where many 6 year-olds are still in kindergarten not at school, as a result they most likely have not have properly started learning numbers or reading and writing. https://www.statista.com/chart/13378/when-do-children-start-school-in-europe/ https://www.statista.com/chart/13378/when-do-children-start-...
- froh 3y agounless the kindergarten is playfully toying with numbers already, usually with no obligation but as an enrichment for those kids who love such activities.
- ilyt 3y agoDo we have statistics on how many pupils end up hating/loving math after that ?