Mathematics

simple... get ur child admitted in a school...

Tarleen, Your question really isn't so basic. I am a college professor and my main area of teaching is math for elementary education majors. So, I basically teach math to the students who want to teach children. I think math educators are constantly trying to figure out a way to make math more interesting to children so that they will develop a love for math. One problem where I live is that high school students are taught by teachers who have special training (as in a B.S. degree in math or math education) in math, whereas elementary school teachers are generalists. I don't think bad of the generalist degree, but I do think that elementary teaching should be specialized, just like the high schools and colleges. I have plenty of students who really want to teach in the elementary grades who have excellent math skills and would be wonderful "math only" teachers. Likewise, I have other students who would be great "English only" teachers. That being said, all of my students are wonderful and are well-qualified to teach in any elementary education area when they graduate. But, I think if we let each teacher specialize, we will see more creativity in the classroom, and more students having fun while they learn. I, for one, would not survive one year if I had to teach everything. On to your question about products and sums. For those basic areas, I like to use "counters." Some of my favorites are "counting bears" They are just little plastics bears. If we were working the problem 2 + 3, I would have students put 2 bears on one side of their desk and 3 bears on the other side of their desk. When they count all of them together, they would get 5 bears. This could be done a few times to get the idea of addition, then I think some memorization must take place. For beginning multiplication, I like to use grids. 2 x 4 would be represented by a grid that is 2 units wide and 4 units long (I usually draw little squares). When we add up all the squares, we get 8 squares...2 x 4 = 8. Again, I strongly suggest that we require students to memorize multiplication tables.

hey there...the above answer is right, you should teach math n a funfull way. I'm an engineer and I'm both teaching basic maths and advance maths. What I do with the children, I put it on songs. Like the multiplication table, it's very hard for them to memorize it, but what you have to do is put a little tune on that, say 6x6 is 36 (with a marching tune or something), this is a very effective technique. Children will really like singing than memorizing those numbers. At least they can put in on their brain by memorizing the song...

Mathematics is very interesting and it's fun. Let this be the message to them at such tender age and they would be the best for it in the future