Math a good bedtime story for children
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Bedtime problems boost kids’ math performance "Daddy, read me a word problem," is probably not a request that many fathers hear. Yet if a school child's parents replace a bedtime story with a math discussion even one night a week, the child's math skill may improve markedly compared with peers who listen to nonmathematical stories, a new study shows.
Note to parents: Don't drink and derive - you might confuse your kids.
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Bedtime problems boost kids’ math performance "Daddy, read me a word problem," is probably not a request that many fathers hear. Yet if a school child's parents replace a bedtime story with a math discussion even one night a week, the child's math skill may improve markedly compared with peers who listen to nonmathematical stories, a new study shows.
Note to parents: Don't drink and derive - you might confuse your kids.
Bernhard Hiller wrote:
Don't drink and derive
Don't be so integralist and axiomatic about that! ;P BTW this is one of my favourite wordplays but it is untranslatable in Italian. Regarding the actual article I agree: exposure to a perspective builds confidence with it, so being exposed to little amounts of maths build the confidence and the mental paths needed to understand it.
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Bedtime problems boost kids’ math performance "Daddy, read me a word problem," is probably not a request that many fathers hear. Yet if a school child's parents replace a bedtime story with a math discussion even one night a week, the child's math skill may improve markedly compared with peers who listen to nonmathematical stories, a new study shows.
Note to parents: Don't drink and derive - you might confuse your kids.
Yet another way to steal away another little piece of our kids already cut-down childhood, just to make them well-performers in the rat race a.k.a. work life. Mad, mad world we live in.
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Bedtime problems boost kids’ math performance "Daddy, read me a word problem," is probably not a request that many fathers hear. Yet if a school child's parents replace a bedtime story with a math discussion even one night a week, the child's math skill may improve markedly compared with peers who listen to nonmathematical stories, a new study shows.
Note to parents: Don't drink and derive - you might confuse your kids.
That doesn't add up. I think the kids would likely get beat up more.
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Yet another way to steal away another little piece of our kids already cut-down childhood, just to make them well-performers in the rat race a.k.a. work life. Mad, mad world we live in.
I understood it slightly different. If you actually manage to boost there capacity for math and problem solving, and that through a little bi of play like activity, they might end up not having to struggle for hours on math problems. Having that extra capacity would be what make them excel to be inventors, instead of being consumers...
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I understood it slightly different. If you actually manage to boost there capacity for math and problem solving, and that through a little bi of play like activity, they might end up not having to struggle for hours on math problems. Having that extra capacity would be what make them excel to be inventors, instead of being consumers...
To my understanding, if someone (no matter of what age) struggles to learn something, it's most likely because he or she is forced to learn it. For example, if someone has no interest in math, he or she will never excel at it because the lack of true motivation to learn it. There is no mastering without interest and motivation. (And it's just not only talent. Talent makes it easier for the individual to grasp it, but without any interest and motivation even the most talented will fail). Now with math as a bedtime story: It might help to develop certain problem solving abilities, but still it's no guarantee that every single child who is trained like that will later be perfect or single-handedly master at math. It only works out if the child has a certain level of interest and motivation; otherwise, it will just be put under stress being forced to learn and understand it. Now, wouldn't it be better if we'd find the thing that truly interests and motivates the child, and help to boost that? Of course, that doesn't work out with our current system of education, which forces everybody to fit into a standardized pattern, with the only goal to make them function and perform well in the rat race that our society is - no matter if they are going to be inventors or trash collectors. And the only reason I see for parents to force their kids to be good at math is because they want them to get the well-paid job later, completely ignoring their natural abilities, interests and motivation. For example, I know a story of a guy (not me), a native German speaker, who has been very bad at English at school. He tried to get better at it, but he had no true motivation, he was only doing it for the sake of the grade and therefore, he ultimately failed. But some years later, he fell in love with an English woman who doesn't speak any German, and guess what happened? That poor guy became fluent in English after just a few months although he almost completely forgot about all he learned in the meantime...