How does a child progress from concrete to abstract in the use of the Mathematics Material?
How does a child progress from concrete to abstract in the use of the Mathematics Material? Introduction Some ten years ago, while struggling with the trigonometry sums my Math tutor had given me, I asked her why we needed to study mathematics. Her answer was sadly, forgettable, and so were the sines, cosines and tangents that came along with algebra and geometry. Throughout my school days, mathematics had been a nightmare. It was not until now, ten years later and after understanding all about how mathematics is taught the Montessori way that I truly realized how wonderful and interesting mathematics could be! In this essay, you will read about the importance of mathematics in our daily life. I will also discuss why a good foundation in Practical Life and Sensorial activities is necessary before starting on Mathematics. I will explain the concept of the Montessori Math Materials and lastly, talk about how the materials itself provide concrete experiences that lead to abstract understanding of Mathematics. Mathematics Everywhere The primitive people used sticks, notches and stones to count. The earliest records of counting came from physical evidence, in the form of scratches on sticks and stones, as early as 30,000 B.C. As society evolved, so did the system of enumeration. Our modern day society uses Arithmetic, which are symbols to represent different numbers. It can
This report is a personal development plan that shows an evaluation of current skills and knowledge that includes my strengths and weaknesses.
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Health and social care level 2 - Human Lifespan Development
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child development - breast-feeding versus bottle-feeding.
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The age group I have selected to describe the physical and intellectual and learning development is 3 to 7 years.
Unit Two: Development from conception to age 16 years E1 The age group I have selected to describe the physical and intellectual and learning development is 3 to 7 years. It is important that intellectual development is about the way you learn to think about and reason but also about how you store and process the information at the age of 3 to 7 it is important you know the normative development which is typical of the age group to achieve however it is often you have milestones which is the expected development for the age group but you shall discover these through observations. The types of things expected from this age group for physical development will be different types movements and for intellectual development it will they way the child thinks and learns this development can also be linked with communication as its apart of cognitive. Physical Development The physical development stages expected for 3 to 7 years At 3 to 4 years they can steer and pedal a tricycle. At 4 to 5 years they can skip with a rope, can throw and catch a large ball. By 7 years they can balance on a beam and hop on one foot these are the gross motor skills which are skills involving movements of children between 3-7 years old, which can take quite a lot of co-ordination. Fine motor skills can be things such as turning a page in book one by one, cuts out simple shapes, colours pictures in and
Describe the ideal relationship between parents and children. How do you appreciate your parents and how do they appreciate you?
Lil Maisky Year 11 Parenting: -Describe the ideal relationship between parents and children. -How do you appreciate your parents and how do they appreciate you? (400 words) Any ideal relationship is based on the appropriate balance in between the commitment and effort of both members concerned. However, the relationship between a parent and child is far more complicated as there is a large amount of responsibility involved. Also, the child is likely to resemble one or both of the parents to a certain extent, but not be as developed or experienced as the parent, thus adding a lot of competition and argumentative aspects to the relationship. This can be more prominently observed when two members of the same sex are involved (mother and daughter...) As the age of the child increases, the responsibility of the parent decreases, most probably proportionally, and this has to be observed by the parent. One has to take into consideration that the child's young years are all that he/she has experienced and that although it's existence might only go back as far as a tiny fraction of the parents life, this cannot be understood by the child until a certain age. Therefore, when a child is growing up, it is developing and learning everything at such a quick rate in proportion to the adult's standards that the parent might not realise when it has to use more lenience in the
