As a child loves math...

Rather than be a chore, this science can be useful and fun for children, show examples in the world, and in our country.

Geometry, a branch of mathematics that studies the shape and spatial relations of the body, is managed from the time of ancient Babylon, Egypt, the pharaohs, including ancient Greece (and she gave birth to perhaps the greatest minds of science) that confuses students, Nesvik abstract way thinking. The younger the child, the harder it is to imagine a distant point at which to cut off the two seemingly parallel lines, or, say, a dodecahedron - "the most perfect geometric body" (at Euclid) composed of 12 petougaonih areas, and more complex hiperdodekaedar (this will adults and difficult to pronounce, let alone kids from kindergarten!) which is actually a four-dimensional dodecahedron, object composed of 120 dodecahedra.

It is a dodecahedron Center for the Promotion of Science Serbia chosen for the main character in your workshop "Geometry around us," intended (primarily) children. Kids can, but older ones that have already learned something about the geometric bodies in maths lessons, the past few days, so in the gallery Kolarac National University of Belgrade had the opportunity to try their hand at constructing a dodecahedron made of plastic straws, hanger, strainer ...

Introduction to the dodecahedron

Unusual colorful shapes have attracted many children, and curious passers-by, who were exposed to the billboard could read a brief history of the dodecahedron, to know that he is a "symbol of the unity of mathematics, the focal point and the intersection of a large number of its disciplines," that for Plato symbolized the structure of the universe (which tried to prove mathematically and modern scholars, notably the Poincare) and inspired many scientists and artists (among other Ptolemy, Fibonacci, Leonardo, Kepler, Picasso ...), and that hiperdodekaedar a key role in modern cosmology and crystallography and the form in which it appears many viruses, some amoeba, and - of gold nanoparticles.

Sergei Vušković from a four-year Kindergarten "Villa" got into making dodecahedron of straws completely oblivious to holding a "structure of the cosmos." The nine-year Uros Radojevic, student school "Pavle Savic", which has an A in math, according to the geometry of this more interesting than the volume, while Michael odlikaš slips from school "Mihajlo Petrovic Alas" enjoys the conclusion that the form of video on the computer.

- And this is one way to awaken curiosity and encourage children to develop an interest in better understanding the world around them, to encourage innovation and creativity and inspire young people to love science and you may opt for a scientific career, which is the mission of the Center for the Promotion of Science - promotorki explains one of the workshop.

Math helps children gain self-confidence and successfully and easily solve a variety of challenges they face in their growing up in everyday life and in education and to understand general models on which to learn to anticipate certain situations, they make decisions and act, to learn to think abstractly, to use technology to manage the area and to manage their own time and expense ... So not only teachers, but also parents of children expected to gradually, in a fun and practical way to introduce the world of mathematics, to show the kids so it is not a "bogeyman" but useful knowledge that will enable them to open the door (s) for science and many other activities in later life.

The Canadian Ministry of Education announced that occasion and guide for parents called "How to help your child to master mathematics." It is intended primarily kids can and contains a series of recommendations, instructions, explanations and tasks that moms and dads can show your child why math is important, what is it, and how to apply.

Puzzles for kids

In Mathematical High School in Belgrade, the program is designed to work with preschool children, to kids as young as four years could, through play, to step into the world of mathematics and learn to think logically.

Once a week, they learn the basic geometric shapes, count to ten, solve logical puzzles and tasks appropriate for their age, draw and paint ... and, most importantly, learn to think, to come up with a solution. "Almost all the school decide to continue with us because we have a program for elementary school students, and," says Bojana Matic, a professor of geometry in high school Mathematics.

In organizing "Education Plus" from Belgrade, as we found out in teaching practice teaching basic mathematics, a new method of learning with the working title "Silent mathematics", as one of the activities of the holistic education program that is designed by Jean Borisavljević. The peculiarity of this method is, as the name suggests, the mutual agreements in students and teachers perform in silence, without discussion, agreed systems and character movement, possibly with writing.

What, after all, the word math? She has already declared a "universal language" which are symbols suitable for communication, not only between people, but also with extraterrestrial intelligent beings, if any.

Tips from "chatting"

Caring, and indeed occasionally panicked parents, increasingly, over the Internet to exchange experiences and seek advice on how to help their children learn math better. At one of these sites reveals that the Dutch school math teachers more frightened than children, and the six year old is expected to know what they cost two melons, if one costs four euros, but how much does it cost half a melon - to leave to the next grade.

On the other, most likely from the Japanese experience, it is recommended origami (the art of paper folding) as an excellent method for the development of abstract thinking in young children. "Sounds logical, because after a while how to conquer fore bending the paper win a three-dimensional space."

One mother says she started with problem assignments "based on examples from everyday life of her family." For instance, how to divide a chocolate bar so that each child gets the same number of bricks.

The Canadian experience say ...

· Use the objects surrounding the child, to be counted, measured, moved, dismantled and compiled by making a variety of geometric shapes ... Draw charts and diagrams, allow kids to fend for themselves and in them. Have to discover the different ways to solve a problem. To learn from mistakes.

· Assign them to count the plates, which are sorted on the table, favorite toys or books stacked on shelves, to loud repetitive song razbrajalice while they do, to show or print the numbers that are so welcome.

· Looking to go on "hunting figures" around the house and neighborhood, finding them, say, the face of a clock, a television, on the stove, the microwave, the list of tenants or board in front of the building, in the store, on street billboards ...

· Encourage your child to just find new ways to use numbers in the environment. Give him to solve problems such as: "We have pasta for dinner. For the sauce need six tomatoes in the house we have two.How much you need to purchase more? "Or" In your sister's room and four pillows in our bedroom two.How many pillowcases have to wash? ".

Ask to cut a slice of bread in half, then in quarters, and then compare them and say which is greater. Let your blanket folded in half and a quarter, and compared with a quarter of the slices of bread.

· Ask him to help you on a pocket calculator that supposedly missing eight, came to this number by arithmetical operations of addition, subtraction, division, multiplication ... Take in a similar way tickets for the game.

· Show your toddler how to sort cans or jars on kitchen shelves, height or weight. Send it to find objects of the same length as, say, a spoon, or to "measure" how much is the length scoop rooms.

· With children from four to six years of work and can be more complex tasks. For example, give them to check whether the objects are always more difficult than smaller, or when you make cookies together, converted from grams to kilograms prescription and vice versa, or to calculate how many days left until Christmas, and if they do share the five holidays weeks, or to determine how many inches a week growing plant that was planted ...