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Any math teacher that uses language association to teach math is doing it completely wrong. If you want to teach math to children younger than 7, stop talking a
by nnq 13y ago
Any math teacher that uses language association to teach math is doing it completely wrong. If you want to teach math to children younger than 7, stop talking and start drawing! (scribbling arabic numerals is good, but things like the Japanese "multiplication by drawing" are awesome in teaching kids to "feel math") Teachers that teach children do things like "say out loud kids, what is two plus seven?* are basically handicapping ~50% of the children's ability to think mathematically for the rest of their lives.
..."spoken mathematics" is to teaching math like COBOL or Visual Basic are to teaching programming :) As the old saying goes, "shut up and do the math", don't try talking about it.
- sanoli 13y agoDo you teach math to children? Can you recommend some good resources for this method? My son is not there yet, but in a couple of years will be, and I'm already interested in the subject, and studying different methods so I'll be able to help him and interact with him in a positive way. P.S. As far as I know, most schools here (Brazil) use a lot of the "Say out loud what is x plus y" way.
- nnq 13y agoNo. I'm probably in the same position as you are, thinking and researching about how to teach my children when the time comes. But at one point I'll probably organize all the researched resources and publish them on a blog or website and maybe try to gather an online community around this topic.
- DanBC 13y agoDo you have any research to back this up? It feels as if it's correct, but I'd be reassured if there was some good quality research too.