Comments on: Oranges are not the only fruit: or how to help children love maths. Assisted by Led Zeppelin, Take That and The Prefab Four! /2014/06/oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit-or-how-to-help-children-love-maths-assisted-by-led-zeppelin-take-that-and-the-prefab-four/ Supporting children's language, communication and learning Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:01:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3 By: Michael Jones /2014/06/oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit-or-how-to-help-children-love-maths-assisted-by-led-zeppelin-take-that-and-the-prefab-four/#comment-7948 Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:04:06 +0000 /?p=1078#comment-7948 Hi John
Nice to hear from you.
I know exactly what you mean. I’ve just spent an hour with a six year old who just totally ‘gets’ counting on from 4 to 20 to get 16, in his head. He found me trying to help him really annoying!
The human mind, in all its variations, is absolutely miraculous!!
Michael

]]> By: John Rice /2014/06/oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit-or-how-to-help-children-love-maths-assisted-by-led-zeppelin-take-that-and-the-prefab-four/#comment-7945 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:11:24 +0000 /?p=1078#comment-7945 I find the symbolizing of numbers completely astonishing. I spent truly ages trying to find a child-friendly way to find an illustration of number representation (e.g. oo=2 and ooo=3, etc.) that would synthesise with the concept of place value before reaching the conclusion that I was incapable of the feat. Whilst I’m convinced that we are genetically programmed with the ability to perform maths I’m in awe of how children manage to move to abstract concepts so quickly.

]]> By: Michael Jones /2014/06/oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit-or-how-to-help-children-love-maths-assisted-by-led-zeppelin-take-that-and-the-prefab-four/#comment-7942 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:41:23 +0000 /?p=1078#comment-7942 Hello Usha
Thank you for replying. I suppose that teaching numbers and calculation are the easiest things for us to do, but there are so many other things to talk about! I find that children enjoy learning about and talking about money and shopping (as much as adults do!), so this is a good vehicle for all sorts of maths talk.
Best wishes
Michael

]]> By: Usha /2014/06/oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit-or-how-to-help-children-love-maths-assisted-by-led-zeppelin-take-that-and-the-prefab-four/#comment-7941 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:16:55 +0000 /?p=1078#comment-7941 HI Michael

Enjoyed reading this article.True, maths is all around us yet, we distance children from this by our own mistake of introducing numbers in a very abstract manner.

Usha

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