02/04/2023
& this is to all dedicated mothers
Maths In The Kitchen:
Paul Halmos, a Hungarian Jewish mathematician known for simplifying complicated mathematical concepts, once famously said, "The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics."
Mathematics is inextricably tied to our daily lives. Where would we be without a concept of time or money or knowing how to mix the right portions of milk, sugar, and tea leaves to get us our daily cup of tea? Yet, we often make the mistake of restricting maths problems to abstract sums in school textbooks. When children learn to use mathematics in daily life, they also learn computation, problem-solving and critical thinking skills simultaneously.
Easy Ways To Get Your Child Interested In
Numbers
1) . Basic number concepts
The activity: The next time you have to visit the neighborhood supermarket to replenish your pantry, how about asking your child to make a shopping list of the items he wants and pick up the required quantity from the store shelves? Say, he would like to buy three packets of biscuits and one bottle of jam but you notice that he has taken only two packets of biscuits. You can ask your child to count aloud the number of biscuit packets in the cart. Count along with your child - "One, two." Once he realizes that he has only two, you can ask him to pick one more packet from the shelf and add it to the basket to make it three.
Teaching through visual representation is a great way to introduce preschoolers to concepts of addition and subtraction. This activity will also help improve your child's basic counting skills.
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