How to help children understand math

The problem is not new. A bright child struggling with grades in mathematics and the parents seem powerless. In fact, this is a shared assessment gives teachers and school administrators. Teachers are not guilty. The problem is the bad math curriculum prescribed by the government. Progress may not be the desired impact.

It 'was good with my son. My spouse and I feared that would not become scientists, doctors on the early development of mathematical skills in an engineer orPlane. We have seen how his interest decreased and its performance in arithmetic class. What to do?

Now the full disclosureâÂEUR | Math was one of my majors in school. But I felt helpless, even when I helped with his homework! It 'was the recommendation of my wife. "Do the math! Go to the library and find some books to help our son." This proved to be the solution found.

What I found, I found no one who was, Ms. Theoni Pappas or the reality of their books. This wonderful ladytogether a series of books that cover many of the basics of mathematics as a whole. He does like a compendium of games, puzzles, puzzles, and illustrations.

In short, their books have the answers in the back pages. To be sure, modern library to produce authors and other similar books. So there is help!

In principle, I would focus its books for each topic that could be my son genome of interest. . I want to find a simple theme, the work by example with their TheoniTo respond if necessary. If I had prepared two or more games for math, I sat with my son for half an hour together and then we'll have a go.

, I asked not to be the right answer, but to try to find an answer. So let's just work, that he would "see". He began to learn math!

An example would be numbers. The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., may be written in different Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, or to discover. I was a child the year 1952, and ask them to write in earlyBabylonian symbols. Next I had written a year in Egypt and ask them in ordinary numbers 1, 2, 3, edit, etc. The child came to understand that different symbols to represent the same thing. This is already algebra!

Now she says, the child already received later in school. Yes, but this time his interest in mathematics is dead.

My efforts were so successful that my neighbor joined the children and friends to us. For a year on different teeth of a week, six or moreThe children along and enjoy the effort.

A second example that has been used very popular pennies. I gave each child fifty pfennig. Penny, where and shook the random number of heads and tails measured. Each child would be a report, agrees. Some may get 15 tails with 35 heads. When all the heads and tails were with the large number of animals was approximately the number of large queues. Children discovered a law of mathematical probabilities.

Seeing is believing, not onlyAnd 'learning. Incidentally my son finished high school honors calculation.