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希望大家不要受什么道听途说的台湾所谓专家的建议,还是以DOMAN的原版书为参考较好。
DOMAN书上建议,30个月以前的孩子都是按从0-100的点卡认识数量开始学习、启发,如果孩子年龄稍稍超过30个月,仍可以按原步骤进行。如果孩子远超过这个年龄,也不妨从0-20的点卡数量认知开始, 这也是帮助他建立数量概念的最好方法,为他以后学习数学提供优势。然后直接教他数字,以及用较传统的方法教他算术。只要现在就开始,他们学习新知的速度仍很快。以下我引用DOMAN书中的原文,让大家参考:
About the Older Child (Thirty Months or Older)
The ability to recognize real value or quantity is definitely strongest between the ages of birth and thirty months. The dot cards really are a baby's domain. This does not mean that a child older than thirty months does not have any chance of learning the quantity cards but it does mean that the chances of his doing so are much less.
If your child is only a little bit over this age then you should definitely give the quantity cards a try. You have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain if he does well.
If your child is well over thirty months, we recommend doing the quantity cards from one to twenty. If, by good fortune,, your child is able to recognize them at this older age, that will be wonderful.
If, on the other hand, he cannot , the dot cards from one to twenty will give him a better improved sense of real quantity than he would otherwise have had. This will be to his advantage as he is learning mathematics in the future.
The ability to instantly discern the difference between 98 dots and 99 dots is a wonderful and wonderous ability. However, it is not <i>everything.</i> The entire world of higher mathematics is still available to the student even if they are not able to do dots or math equations instantly.
......The first step is quantity. Unfortunately for you and me, this was a skipped step. .....
If your three-, four-, or five year old is too old for the dot cards, then by all means go ahead and begin to teach him numberals. You may have to approach the teaching of equations in a more conventioal vein, but remember his ability to take in raw facts will never be better than it is right now.
We have many superb young ten-, eleven- and twelve-year-old mathematicians who are enjoying trigonometry , and they did not begin their home math programs until they were four or five years old and well beyond the age of doing the quantity cards.
Don't become so in love with the notion of instant arithmatic that you miss the forest for the trees. |
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