Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.
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I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.
If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
Math was always hard for me, but my dad would come up with ways of making it fun. I remember playing 'Number Munchers' on our old Mac... That counts as math class, right?
A teacher should have a creative mind.
Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.
I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.
Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.
Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.