In the golden stage of children's 3-6 years old mathematical enlightenment, it is very important for children's mathematical enlightenment. Through the cultivation of mathematical enlightenment, children can better understand mathematical concepts and operation rules, so as to solve mathematical problems more easily. The strength of mathematical thinking directly affects children's ability to perceive and deal with mathematical problems, and also determines whether children can think and reason mathematically efficiently.

During the summer vacation, many parents put their children's mathematical enlightenment on the agenda, but some parents, because of their excessive anxiety about their children's education, stepped into some misunderstandings in parenting, eager for success, mistakenly gave their children "pushing seedlings" mathematical enlightenment and enrolled their children in various mathematical enlightenment classes.

Is it really necessary for children to enroll in early education classes of mathematics enlightenment? Mr. Ball's answer is no.

First of all, why not report to the early education class for mathematics enlightenment?

(A) education should conform to the learning characteristics of children of this age, and the classroom order is seriously not conducive to the absorption of knowledge.

The learning of children aged 3-6 is based on direct experience and is carried out in games and daily life. They like to play and can only absorb more in a relaxed and happy atmosphere. Sending children to strange classes takes them a long time to adapt to new teachers and classmates, which is even more counterproductive for introverted children. Moreover, the child's prefrontal lobe is underdeveloped, and it is difficult to concentrate. It may not adapt to the classroom order and atmosphere, and the effect is not great.

(2) The core of mathematics enlightenment is to stimulate the interest in inquiry, which is easy for children to resist in class.

The goal of children's mathematics enlightenment is to let children feel mathematics and let them find that there are numbers everywhere in their lives. Only by perceiving the charm of mathematics can we stimulate the interest in exploring mathematics. Only with interest as the driving force can children go further on the road of learning mathematics. However, if learning mathematics becomes a prescribed timetable and a must, children will lose interest in learning mathematics and even have resistance, which is very unfavorable for the absorption of knowledge.

Mathematics is a conceptual field, and the best way to learn mathematical knowledge and cultivate mathematical thinking is to provide students with conceptual mathematical activities. In many educational institutions, in order to let children master conceptual knowledge quickly, the more students memorize, the less willing they are to think about the concept of number and its relationship, and the less willing they are to cultivate and apply the sense of number.

(3) Children's abstract ability is very weak. Only by combining mathematics with practice can children really understand mathematics.

Children's thinking characteristics are based on concrete thinking in images, so we should pay attention to guiding children to learn mathematics through direct perception, personal experience and practical operation. Let children understand abstract mathematics knowledge in concrete life scenes. Furthermore, although mathematics is abstract, it is not a simple calculation, but a strategy to solve problems. We need to show children how to use mathematics in their lives, solve closely related life problems with what they have learned, and let them feel the charm of knowledge and have the motivation to persist in learning and exploring.

Then, without attending early childhood classes, what methods can enlighten children in mathematics?

Suggestion 1: Use mathematics in the environment to strengthen children's mathematical thinking.

Parents can throw out some math problems in life at an appropriate time and invite their children to help solve them together. For example, we have a family dinner today. How many families will we have when we have children? How many people are there respectively? When will they arrive? How many bowls and pairs of chopsticks do you need? This can help children strengthen their counting skills, get in touch with some simple but common addition and subtraction operations, and cultivate a sense of numbers.

When you go shopping in the supermarket today, do you want your children to calculate the prices of several items and pay for them, or do you want them to help you count how many potatoes and bottles of milk you bought? Similarly, repeatedly helping children to carry out addition and subtraction training can let children know about money and connect abstract numbers with concrete money. Visualized knowledge is more conducive to children's memory and understanding.

When traveling today, you should pay more attention to the road signs along the way. How many kilometers is it to your destination? How many minutes does the navigation display take to arrive? Although the speed formula does not need to be mastered in the first or second grade, the early contact can lay the foundation for the later mathematics study. If we can connect abstract formulas with concrete life scenes, children can understand and answer life application questions well in the future.

Suggestion 2: Use "mathematical language" to guide children to think mathematically.

In fact, in our daily life, we often use mathematical language, but it is too simple, so as parents, we may ignore this child's excellent learning opportunity. Parents can strengthen the memory of mathematical language in their children's minds by increasing the frequency of using mathematical language in their lives, so that children can quickly recall and imitate your language and express or answer it next time they encounter similar scenes.

For example, we only took ten dollars to the convenience store and spent three dollars on sugar. How much money do we have left?

When you buy Hu Aishan, do you want a long one or a short one?

The big box of biscuits has five more packets than the small box of biscuits, the big one is 15 yuan and the small one is 10 yuan. Shall we buy cheap or expensive?

I want to buy a pen to write with. Do you want a thicker one or a thinner one?

Buy post-it notes, rectangles or triangles?

Suggestion 3: Make education interesting and experience the fun of mathematics in games.

For example, let children play the role of supermarket cashier to help you settle the amount. In addition to guiding children to perform simple addition and subtraction operations, they can also be guided to learn counting methods such as two numbers, five numbers and subsequent numbers. I bought three bags of potatoes, each with five. How many are there in a * * *?

Alternatively, parents can use some apps in the game to help their children learn math. Online practice is more convenient and worry-free, and the game-based math training makes children unconsciously learn math knowledge while playing. The number sense planet is to skillfully integrate mathematical knowledge points into the game, so that various mathematical principles can be vividly presented in children's familiar life scenes or novel virtual worlds. The following figure lists the contents that first-grade children need to learn and the corresponding game exercises we designed to help children exercise their mathematical thinking and cultivate their interest in mathematics during play, so that children can go further on the road of learning mathematics.

Math is very interesting. Welcome to pay attention to the number sense planet, learn more about mathematics, take your baby to know mathematics again, and let your child fall in love with mathematics from an early age.