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Show me one show me five show me all five show me a capital L Shut Your left eye an - John Nicholson - 09-07-2010
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Show me one show me five show me all five show me a capital L Shut Your left eye and turn to the left.
[/SIZE][SIZE="5"]I started to build this as a proving exercise but realised that it was very fast and could also be used as a starting point for early learning,
Of course the really vital information we are trying to perfect, is the child’s awareness of the physical meaning of number.
One and 1 are simple signs, the child has to understand the real meaning of one is as vital in realising the meaning of one elephant as it is in realising the meaning of a single finger. Of course this real meaning of number is one of the most vital pieces of knowledge we can establish as far as the child’s life is concerned.
So we have to teach by showing four separate concepts all with the same meaning for ten numbers. The physical meaning is only slowly absorbed as far as any child’s perfected memory is concerned and initially we are concentrating on the meaning of five.
[SIZE="6"]SO TO BE CLEAR WHAT ARE THOSE FOUR CONCEPTS THAT EVERY CHILD MUST BUILD INTO ONE MENTAL SINGLE TOTAL CONCEPT[/SIZE]
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SOUND MEANING NUMERAL & WORD
[/SIZE]Eventually for all of us seeing or hearing any of these four concepts as one meaning
FIRSTLY the child has to become aware of the physical quantity of number, which is acquired in conjunction with the second essential realisation the sound of the word but these two perfected concepts are rarely instantly acquired all at the same time.
So it is, that chanting the numbers one to ten is the first practical step a teacher or concerned parent can take, chanting and tapping ten with the fingers is a second step building initial awareness, the proving exercise can be used to build instant realisations as well as finally proving the child has been taught perfectly.
Life is not easy for a child learning to read and count, written words can be learnt as a picture which they are when a child uses a written in words abacus, simple physical realisations learnt by moving words on the abacus builds the word for each number as permanent picture memory even before the child understands the real meaning of ten it can be shown and remember the word ten.
I have just brought my universal starting point in using a written in words abacus down from four to three years of age.
We will never know when any child reaches a perfected memory of any particular part of these processes so it is that we must repetitiously continue with these exercises’ until we are sure every child is perfect[/SIZE]
Show me one show me five show me all five show me a capital L Shut Your left eye an - John Nicholson - 13-10-2010
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