I just found this picture that I took of the fact families my 4-year old wrote on the whiteboard - totally on her own.
There was a time she loved writing fact families like this every day. Being able to choose different color markers plus it being on the whiteboard seemed to be the main motivating factors, because she didn't want to write them on blank paper... Kids are funny.
Then again, it allows us teachers to use colorful markers as a "motivational tool" : )
Anyway, I was really happy that she had grasped the concept.
November 08, 2009
Fact families on a whiteboard
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I wonder if my son would enjoy doing this. (-:
I can't help feeling some might look at this and think: "Is it really necessary to be able to do all this so young?!? Let your children play...". I'm curious what your response would be...
Also, I understand how much small children can enjoy doing abstract things like this, but I wonder myself how much the enjoyment is purely personal satisfaction and how much it is geared towards gaining approval...
Do not think I'm being critical incidentally. I'm just airing questions that have arisen in my mind about my own approaches to learning with my own 4 and 2 year olds...
I agree to let children play. This my child definitely gets to play a lot! Even her math time is often just games. And she perceived the fact families on whiteboard as sort of "play" because it was fun for her.
I remember a guy (from highschool), he wrote in a sheet the formulas requiered for the exam:
F=ma; m=F/a; a=F/m
LOL
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