In what case is it possible to speak about Mathematical capability among pre-school children?

• Main Author: Beloshistaya, Anna V.
• Other Authors: HTW Dresden, Informatik, Mathematik
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden 2012
• Subjects: mathematische Fähigkeiten; Entwicklung; Schulung; Entwicklung mathematischer Kompetenzen; mathematical abilities; development; training; development of mathematical skills; ddc:510; rvk:SD 2009
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-79444; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-79444; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/7944/Proceedings-636pages-Dresden2009_057-059.pdf

Most of people have fatal attitude to Mathematics: some of them are capable to learn it form nature, but the others are not. So is their fate – to suffer from it for the whole of life… But it is a rude though natural mistake, as it results from means of mathematical education and its content. Most of parents and teachers are directed on these aspects both in kindergarten and at primary school. Of course, parents are different. Nevertheless so many parents can’t possibly but speak about achievements of their children. Some start making their own children learn better by the example of success of the others. They make their children learn long chains of figures with no understanding. It is even more sad to see how a mom asks her 4-year old son: “How much is two plus three?..’ But he replies just because he learned the answer but not calculated. Not only parents but also kindergarten tutors don’t want to understand that drilling for arithmetic has no sense. For a specialist it would take two days only…But teach him how to think logically – is a goal demanding from him, reached by different means.