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Gifting Your Child: Math and Literacy from Infancy
"Gifting Your Child: Math and Literacy from Infancy" is a book about "teaching". This book will prove to be very useful to any parent or grandparent who is passionate about the successful early education of children. rnrnBy the time my grandson was just under 5 years of age, I had managed to teach him basic literacy and an inordinate amount of math concepts that would be considered complex for a 5-yr old. As a partial listing, by age 5 my grandson was taught to: add, subtract, multiply, divide; verbalize and write out numbers up to 36 digits long, giving you the decillion, nonillion, octillion, septillion, sextillion, quintillion, quadrillion, trillion, billion, million, thousand, and hundred in the number; identify fractions as proper / improper and reason out which fraction was greater / lesser, and by how much; correctly distribute a given number of items based on ratios of 1:2, 2:3, 3:7, 4:5, etc.; do direct negative subtractions without repositioning the numbers; draw the X and Y axes of coordinate geometry, fill in positive / negative numbers on both axes, number the quadrants, identify the coordinate signs in each quadrant, plot / identify the coordinates of points on a grid, etc.; recite the definitions of "point", "line", "straight line", "absolute value"; etc. recite the "Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy", etc.rnrnThis book details my efforts, my techniques and the math I used at initiating a successful very early childhood education program for my grandson. My hope in writing this book is to encourage prospective parents, expectant parents, new parents / grandparents, and parents / grandparents with young children in the family to take a very early interest in their child's / grandchild's mental development. Infants and young children have the ability to absorb, understand and process complex thoughts and concepts, and we do not give them enough credit on this score. My work with my own children and now with my grandson has taught me that if you teach infants/toddlers numbers and math concepts from an early age, they will learn to understand abstract thought.rnrnA simple comparison to language-learning will bear out my point above. You would have to admit that it would be extremely difficult for you, as an adult, to learn the Mandarin language today. Yet, the child born in China learns to speak the language effortlessly, just through listening to his / her parents. It is the same principle at play between the infant brain and early childhood education imparted in the language of math and logical thinking. rnrnA preview of the book, along with a couple of reviews of the book, can be found at www.Lulu.com. Search either on the title of the book or on my name. The preview details the full table-of-contents along with a sampling of some of the pages from the book, so you can better appreciate what this book has to offer you. I sincerely believe that this book will be of interest to any parent who wants to gift his or her child an invaluable educational head-start in life. This book will show the parent the way to achieving that goal. rnrnThe book covers a wide progressive array of concepts in the areas of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, coordinate geometry and general science. Obtaining this information from several sources would prove to be problematic. But it's all available here, in this one volume. This book relieves the parent/guardian from answering the constant vexing question "What do I teach my child next ?" The "teaching curriculum" is right here, in this book. Just follow the sequence of concepts as shown in the book, or choose specific sections from the table-of-contents.rnrnI would like to suggest that the summer vacation time would be a particularly good time for families to acquire this book. If your child will read just a couple of sections every week, it will help the child to keep his/her mental gears grinding and reduce the inevitable vacation-time summer-slide or learning-loss. A 2011 RAND literature review concluded that the average student loses about one month's worth of schooling during a typical summer vacation. "All students lose some ground in mathematics over the summer....." RAND concluded. I hope you will agree with me on the statement that school is important enough to happen all year round, even if to a lesser extent during the summer vacation. rnrnBuy this book..... It's on your side.....rnrnKerman BharucharnWebster, NY
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