According to the law of children's brain development, preschoolers need to go through a lot of practice with physical manipulation to get a good sense of number and cope with the transition from concrete to abstract thinking.
If anything, it's hard for older kids (4+) to move into abstract math exercises without adequate concrete thinking practice.
That's why I've stocked up on a bunch of workbooks - Scholastic, Logic Dog, He Qiu Guang... But none of them have been tried for Mu yet. I'm hoping to familiarize myself with math and manipulate it over and over again in my life through the 2-3 year old years, so that Mu can gain a good sense of number before going into workbook mode. (Note: This division of what should be done for the corresponding age may just be a perfect plan. There is a big gap between the plan and the actual practice, which still needs to respect the child's interest and ability development.
Based on the professional books and experiences shared by the parents around the relevant math enlightenment, 2-3 year olds can carry out the basic math enlightenment, roughly the following blocks:
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01 Learning to count, counting 0-20
02 Recognizing basic shapes
03 Being able to recognize simple repetitive, mathematical patterns
04 Learn simple classification, sets
05 Have simple spatial ability
Among them, "learning to count, counting 0~20", you can refer to the previous tweet "play with your child like this every day, get a good sense of counting", remember to come back oh
Today's article is about "learning to count", and it's a great way to learn how to count. p>
Today's article will talk about how to carry out the remaining 4 pieces of math enlightenment. As usual, I will demonstrate with Mu Mu's daily activities for a day, for more parents to learn from (copy homework).
02 Recognizing basic shapes
In daily life games, bring your child to recognize basic shapes: triangles, rectangles, circles, squares, trapezoids, and ellipses.
Geometry at your feet
It's a bad day, so Mu and I had to walk downstairs in the neighborhood. Before Mu Mu could say "mommy hug", I suddenly shouted "tie" and ran 10 meters away.
I: "Mu Mu, look, is this a rectangular drain cover?" (poor sewer cover group acting again)
Mu Mu: "Yes, yes."
Me: "Amazing, I've only seen round sewer covers before. Let's take a quick look, what other shapes ...... There are actually square ones. Mu Mu, look, we've seen 3 shapes, rectangle, circle, square. Which one do you like?"
Mu Mu: "emm - round."
Me: "Mommy really likes circles too. Look at me, I can walk in circles around this circle."
Seeing my mom stumbling and stepping around the edge of the circular drain cover, Mu jumped at the chance. And so we walked around every drain cover shape we came across on the way.
You can also physically feel the shapes by stepping on them with your feet. If your child is older, you can also play the game of walking with your eyes closed, where you close your eyes and let your child lead you, or let your child's eyes close and you lead him, free to play.
Walking is the most fun math game, pavement cover, tiles, steps, can be used to count, find the shape.
Obsessed with cars
Tired of playing with water covers, Mu Mu took to the intersection of the neighborhood. There was a lot of traffic, a lot of people. There are all kinds of cars that the boys are obsessed with: bicycles, cars, buses, vans, garbage trucks. The cars all have round wheels, the buses are rectangular, and the vans have squares on their sides. Of course it can also be combined with the game of point counting, where the car is on 4 wheels, the bike is on 2 wheels and the express motorcycle is on 3 wheels.
Everything in life has its own shape. But the baby is more motivated to identify shapes with his favorite things.
No toy is better for playing with shapes than blocks
Blocks are the best shapes to play with, all kinds of wooden blocks, jigsaw puzzles, magnetic pieces, and so on. Not to carry out said, but I want to recommend a cheap, large amount, the best use of wooden blocks. Go to Taobao to search for "logs, montessori, geometry" and other keywords, you can find this type of large bowl of cheap building blocks teaching aids, three-dimensional shapes and flat:
The advantage of this kind of blocks is that the colorless solid wood, you can buy a single piece of the price is affordable, what shape you want to buy how many pieces, all with you.
03 Be able to recognize simple repetitive, mathematical patterns
At 2-3 years old, you can take your child to recognize simple repetitive patterns, such as AB AB AB patterns, abc abc patterns.
Flashing neon lights
Little ones can suddenly become obsessed with colors at some point between the ages of 1-3. My balcony overlooks the neon lights of a shopping mall, and Mu seems to be able to observe them for a long time. While looking at them, he would say: red-blue-green-purple.... Soon my mind was a blur. I look at it, and again it's a good time to play math with Mu Mu ah --
Taking out the colorful magnetic pieces of me: "Mu Mu, look - now it's a red light - -" said I put a piece of ground on the ground. If it's too much color, you can use the observation of the traffic lights on the road to identify the green-yellow-red-green-yellow-red pattern.
Wonderful music
Grandma and Grandpa's children love to square dance, and maybe today's square dance is too much, the aftermath of which will not go away, so when we get home, Mu Mu will start to play his own musical instrument, and he'll play a lot. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
I: "Mu Mu, mom and you play a fun game it."
I: "Mu Mu, listen to your mom's instructions, mom said big, you will knock hard. When mom says small, you knock gently."
In line with my instructions, Mu Mu started to knock, and I took a pen and drew to the music on the paper -
Knock, loud, draw a line;
Knock, small, draw a dot;
......
Before I could draw a few times, Mu Mu hurriedly grabbed the pen, "Mu Mu to draw."
Me: "Okay, then I'll knock, listen carefully. Knock, that's right, draw a line. Knock, knock, that's right, draw dots."
Game blocks
Colorful magnetic pieces, a variety of shapes and colors of the beads, blocks, are very good to play the repetition of the law props. The mother can report the color "red-blue-red-blue", let the child set out. Of course, you can also set out 2 repeating elements, and let the child continue to set out the next.
Of course, the child will not follow the rhythm every time, when he does not want to listen -
04 Learning Simple Sorting and Setting
There are so many concepts of sorting and setting in daily life. I can guarantee that these are played with in a way that kids really enjoy.
I'll find my mom's socks
The one who likes to do the most chores in your family isn't grandma or mom, it's your baby. The first time I saw this, I was able to get a good look at it, and I was able to get a good look at it, and I was able to get a good look at it. When Grandma puts away the clothes, Mu Mu rushes over, "Mu Mu put away, Mu Mu put away." The first time I saw her, I was so happy to see her, and she was so happy to see me.
Me: "Mu Mu, come quickly. Mommy needs your help!"
Mu Mu ran back in a puff of smoke.
I: "Look, Daddy has so many socks, can you help to separate them. This one and this one are a pair, they are exactly the same. This one, and he is exactly the same, where did it go."
The advanced version of the game is to separate out dad's clothes, mom's clothes, different colors of clothes, cold clothes, hot clothes. Quickly home to let your child to do housework ~
By way of example, all simple classification, into a collection of chores can be two or three year old dolls to help do, especially his messy fence inside, the organization of toys into the classification of the game. Pay attention to feed with skill, not "quickly organize your blocks small car picture book oxford tree", but say "Mu Mu quickly come ah, I want to put all the blocks together, too difficult, I can not find the blocks, mom needs your rescue."
04 have simple spatial ability
2-3 years old baby, is able to distinguish simple spatial concepts: up and down, left and right, far and near.
Repeat spatial words in more language
With a little runner, sitting watching TV and want to get high how to do? Call out to him -
"Mu Mu, mom needs your help oh. Can you help me get melon seeds?"
Mu Mu looking around: "I can't find it!"
Me: "Look, behind you under the TV stand, is your little toilet. To the left of your toilet is your caterpillar pointing pen. Behind the pen behind, there's the melon. It's on the TV stand inside."
Every week when we go to the mall, Mu asks to play with the car. Although I'm the one who controls the car from behind, Mu Mu holds his head high as he meets the envious eyes of other children, living up to his title of "the brightest kid in the mall".
The old mother would keep saying, "Mu Mu, pay attention, let's turn left..." and "Mu Mu, pay attention, now turn right..." and "Mu Mu, pay attention, now turn left...". Mu Mu attention ah, now turn right... We're going backwards... Let's go forward again... Turn left... (The steering wheel moves left and right with the remote control.)
After playing for a while, I asked Mu to steer the car by himself: "Mu Mu, try turning the steering wheel by yourself today." He was able to follow the commands well enough to steer left and right.
Repeatedly using spatial concepts in daily life, children can master simple spatial concepts without having to be forced to do so, or to be asked to do so.
Above, this is the content of today's Early Childhood Numeracy Initiative.
Life is full of math, play math in life, but don't make math life. The amount of appropriate daily, after all, 2-3-year-old baby brain capacity is limited, if the child appears to be rejected, the first pause. Parents more demonstration, less questions. More encouragement, less pointing out mistakes. Pointing out mistakes should be skillful, do not say "you got it wrong", use more "what do you think of my way", "let's try together, there are more ways". ...
Gradual progression of difficulty, such as playing sorting games, 2-3 year olds generally find it difficult to sort by multiple elements, and a pile of blocks of various shapes and colors may only be divided according to color or only according to shape. You can't sort by color and shape at the same time.
If you can't play, wait a bit and try again a few days later.
Wish our children: the beginning of the exploration of mathematics from the life of the small, the end of the understanding of mathematics will be at the end of the universe.
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Maybe my sharing is wrong or not suitable for you, but it is surely based on my experience and my conviction. be based on my experience and what I strongly believe.
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