The premise of classification is observation, and only through observation can things be classified. The process of classification is actually an observation and inductive reasoning process.
Some of Montessori's teaching AIDS are very helpful for children to learn classification, such as sorting from big to small according to a certain shape. If there is no Montessori teaching aid, you can also exercise your child's classification ability. For example, buy a small box, put all kinds of toys in it, put pictures on it, let the children put all the cars in one box, and Lego bricks will be received in another box.
Children aged 4-5 can buy them beads of various colors and put them in different grids according to the colors. These are all good ways to cultivate classification ability. A better way is to encourage children to find their own regular classification, as long as they can give reasons, it is right.
Secondly, don't let children memorize answers.
Many parents know to protect their children's curiosity. Whenever a child asks a question, he will immediately take the initiative to tell the child the answer. If he doesn't know the answer, he will go online to search for the correct answer to teach his children. As everyone knows, this has killed the child's logical reasoning ability. Over time, children get used to passive learning and don't think.
It is not advisable for some parents to instill a lot of knowledge into their children in a short time in order to let them pass the baby interview. In this process, children lack active thinking and have no process of exploring by themselves, which is completely unhelpful to the improvement of logical reasoning ability.
Guiding questions helps to cultivate children's logical reasoning ability.
Compared with telling children the answer directly, guiding children to find the answer step by step can improve their logical reasoning ability. For example, this is the entrance examination for a foreign language primary school in the world. If the child has difficulty in doing it for the first time, parents can decompose the question, ask the child in sections, and guide the child to answer the question step by step to get the answer.
Parents: How many numbers are there in the title?
Child: There are triangles, five-pointed stars and squares.
Parent: What's behind the triangle?
Child: It's a five-pointed star.
Parents: What's behind the five-pointed star?
Child: It's square.
Parent: So what's the order?
Children: triangle, five-pointed star, square
Parent: Is the order after the second triangle the same?
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By asking questions repeatedly like this to help children clear their minds, children can learn to use induction to find regular problems. In this process, children actively observe and think. Regular training in this way can also help children develop good study habits. When you encounter a problem, observe it carefully, then find the law and verify the answer.
Ask questions and let children learn to think more.
Parents should not feel relieved when their children get the answer. This is a good opportunity for children to think further. When children solve problems and think logically, they tend to implement the first thought, especially when the first thought to solve problems is correct. At this time, the child needs to learn to restrain impulse, ignore interference, keep attention and concentrate on the second thought.
For example, when a child is learning to add and subtract two digits, parents can ask the child to solve the problem in more than one way. 3+ 19=? Children can divide 3 by 1+2 and get the conclusion = 19+ 1+2=22, or break 19 into 17+2 and then 3+ 17+2=22.
Questioning method can also help children learn to draw inferences from others and apply analogy, deduction and induction to other problems. For example, when a child comes to the conclusion that a nearby person is bigger than a distant house, he can then be asked if there is any phenomenon that can explain the rule that a nearby person is bigger than a distant house, and then parents can inspire the child to observe that a distant car is getting smaller and smaller; Looking down from a height, people are not as big as a pot of flowers on the balcony and so on.
The purpose of breaking the casserole is not to let children learn more knowledge, but to let children develop habits and think more than others. If you don't accumulate silicon, you will make a thousand miles a day. That's it. Every time you think more, your child's logical reasoning ability will be improved little by little.
Summary:
Because the window of children's logical reasoning ability has been opened very early, parents must not only pay attention to the instillation of children's preschool knowledge, but ignore the cultivation of logical reasoning ability. Logical reasoning ability is an indispensable basic skill for learning and future development. Parents can let their children observe and classify things, ask more questions, and constantly ask more in-depth questions to guide their children to think more about everything. Over time, their children will surely become better.