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Mathematic Time
10 Comments
I remembered I had a dreadful time teaching Timothy mathematics. Maybe I didn’t have the patience or I was losing it. I couldn’t understand why he cannot grasp the simple idea of adding. He just didn’t get it. For the first few times, I had to give away the answers to him.
It is really frustrating. I show him a few times on how it is done. He copied my example very well. However when you asked him to do on its own, he gives me a blank face. :wall:
I took out marbles, counting toys, papers and mathematic tools to help him. Every time he does his mathematic homework, I have to guide him. He will be lost if I don’t. He just couldn’t add anything by himself. On top of that, he was doing subtraction too.
Yesterday, I was really surprised for the first time, he managed to do addition by himself. He didn’t just add single digit but double digits. He was only using his fingers to count. I asked him, what if you ran out of fingers, like 6 + 6. He showed me, he counted 6 first until all fingers close, open up another 6 fingers. Last time my mom asked me that questions, I told her I still have my toes. 😛
It was my fault to have little faith in him. I should believe in him. He made me remember the very basic thing about mathematics that is the more you practice, the more you get better at it. Hey he should have the mathematic gens because it is my favorite and best subject. Imagine I get a thrill at solving mathematics puzzle. By the way, my brother is worst, he is a mathematicholic, he took all the mathematic subjects in the University and he was given a second degree in Maths.
Published on July 15, 2008 · Filed under: Parenting;
10 Responses to “Mathematic Time”
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chinnee said on July 15th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
maybe Tim din get the idea when u first teach him?
good that he manage to catch up later on 😉
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alicia said on July 15th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
thumbs up for tim !!
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Jesslyn said on July 15th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
ya, math need more practice!
No worry, most Chinese done well in this subject! That’s why majority of chinese are very good in doing business. 😛
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Tracy said on July 16th, 2008 at 9:03 am
1 thumb + 1 thumb for Tim! No worries, no worries, I’m sure Tim will inherited ur mathematic genes in no time.
In Des’s kindy, she was taught to add in this way, like 4 + 9 (or 9 + 4), ‘put’ the largest number ‘inside her head’ i.e. the number 9, and then add 1, 2, 3, 4. No need to use ur toes to count (heehee).
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michelle said on July 16th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Tracy: Believe me I thot him to add this way but he needs to count from the beginning. Anyway, eventually he will pick that up.
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Magictree said on July 16th, 2008 at 9:46 am
I think that’s probably he’s more ready now than before!
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slavemom said on July 16th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
In kindy, XY was taught the same method as Des. But I’m wondering how they’re gonna manage when the numbers r bigger than 20.
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michelle said on July 16th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
slavemom: Now they are teaching my son to add like this:
13
73
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86
—So 20 is not a problem.
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not bad not bad..
Sometimes I think when the child is ready, then it’ll be easier.
The only thing is the parents don’t have the patience to wait until they are ready.. like me. 😛
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Paik Ling said on July 17th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Well done, Tim 🙂
Mummy – you’ll be amazed by how much they are absorbing even though they give you the blank look. 🙂
