> The superiority of the teaching method shows to be significant when compared to other teaching methods elsewhere and even remains noticeable when children encounter higher levels of math.
I was mainly talking about addition and multiplication up to 10x10. Looking through all the tricks and hacks they teach the kids in an attempt to simplify ideas seems very wasteful as the brain at that age is so good at memorizing things. ut the schools don't seem to be taking advantage of that.
They think like adults in the sense of "oh let's introduce this abstract idea and prove it and derive the specific examples from it". Yes, a college kid or high school would do well there, but in earlier grades I haven't seen it work. It's a bit like learning a language. An adult might do well to start learning about grammar rules, tenses, cases etc, a kid might do better hearing a lot of example and deriving the rules on their own. Later they might find out that there are 8 tenses, 4 cases, predicates, adjectives etc.
I was mainly talking about addition and multiplication up to 10x10. Looking through all the tricks and hacks they teach the kids in an attempt to simplify ideas seems very wasteful as the brain at that age is so good at memorizing things. ut the schools don't seem to be taking advantage of that.
They think like adults in the sense of "oh let's introduce this abstract idea and prove it and derive the specific examples from it". Yes, a college kid or high school would do well there, but in earlier grades I haven't seen it work. It's a bit like learning a language. An adult might do well to start learning about grammar rules, tenses, cases etc, a kid might do better hearing a lot of example and deriving the rules on their own. Later they might find out that there are 8 tenses, 4 cases, predicates, adjectives etc.