Several weeks ago, my colleague and I went to the best international school in our city and paid for the annual tuition of the Korean managers’ kids, which is thirty times higher than normal local schools. When she was in the accounting office, I went out for a strolling and want to see what the hell the best bilingual education school is extinct from others.
A great part of the kids are from Japan and Korea. Maybe one or two kids on average in a class are from European or state countries. When I was looking around, I came across grade 1 class kids coming out for playing snow ball. The teacher was a lady, maybe 30 years old, standing beside them. Two minutes later, a black girl, called Coco, coming out from the building with a paper sheet in her hand and said” teacher, I finished the sheet”. “Coco, you are fast enough to finish the test sheet.” “12 minus 5 equals 10, 13 plus 1 equals 10, 18 minus 3 equals 10 and every outcome is 10” Then the lady asked Coco go back to classroom and recalculate it until getting the correct number. I could still remember the feeling on Coco’s face, how she wanted to join in the snowball games with others. She turned around several times when she went back into the building. The above scene may happen in a lot of families and I want to point out that I have no skin color discrimination in this story. I just met it. Wherever, even the best of the best school, math cases happen.
Math, maybe a headache for both parents and kids, is logical and boring. It doesn’t like illustrating and drawing. Sometimes it seems no fun at all. I planned to share some tips. However, every parent’s solution is different. It is important to find a special way for your own kids and let them like math. Don’t pressurize your kids using your way to learn math and try not to shout at them. It will only make things worse. Make math funny with the help of books and help from teacher. You will obtain what you expect from your kids under your patience and persistence. Another suggestion is that the earlier you set up the interest of math for your kids, the better he will behave in high school and later studying.
