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Don't you think they should understand the most concrete instances of it before they're made to understand abstractions? Don't you think they should understand
by anaphor 13y ago
Don't you think they should understand the most concrete instances of it before they're made to understand abstractions? Don't you think they should understand it with marbles and sticks before they understand it with very abstract concepts like arithmetic operators?
- Natsu 13y agoActually, no. In this case, the link between numbers and objects and linking addition and subtraction to telling the "stories" of real activities is an important thing for them to know. Far better they realize that and see the importance, than that they memorize the one digit addition and subtraction tables but think them useless and forget them entirely during summer vacation.