Math and Young Children
Have you ever wondered what it's like for young children who are just beginning to learn math? I have, especially since I started working on my Early Childhood Education Associate degree. While some people try to show this concept to college students training to become teachers by forcing them to use a different number system (such as base 8 instead of base 10), I'm not that mean--I'm much, much meaner. See, while using a base 8 number system for the first time will mess with your head after a lifetime of using base 10, kids aren't transferring from one number system to another--they're learning a number system for the very first time, plus a whole set of new-to-them terminology that they have to memorize. So, in addition to giving you a base 8 numbering system to work with, I am also going to provide you with new terms to use. However, I'm too lazy to invent new symbols to represent my numbers, so you're just going to have to work with th...