Dialogue with mathematical vocabulary can improve children's mathematical skills

Do you believe? some very simple, even adults will find a passing mention of "mathematical language", say "you two coat take over" instead of "you take over the coat", for 4 to 5-year-old child, can also improve their math skills.

The University of Chicago: Raquel Klibanoff at the post-doctoral development Psychology magazine published an article on the report, she said: preschool teachers in everyday conversation often use for mathematical vocabulary, helps improve pre-school children's mathematical skills.

Klibanoff and her collaborators who choose to experiment in the kindergarten. Their 26 preschool teachers by the collar on fixed a miniature microphone, record them in a random work time period for the children of the speech content.

Finishing the recording material found that these teachers in most of the time in the children's story, or play games with you, and not specifically to carry out the mathematics activities. However, some teachers in everyday language often use some count or calculation of the mathematical language. For example: one day a child leave didn't come to kindergarten that teachers will allow children to count on the day of the class to the number of children.

In the school year start and end of the two time, researchers are examining these children's mathematical skills. Them to be tested on some cards of the children and asked him to find out the printing digitally "2" of the piece; it also has some simple additions of oral questions.

Found, and seldom heard of mathematics children compared to those teachers in everyday conversation frequently used mathematical language for children, their math skills in a year made more progress. But this progress and the level of individual quality teachers, the teachers for the language in which the sentence structure of complexity, and these children's socio-economic backgrounds.

Klibanoff said: "almost all of the parent-child magazine and books are recommended for children in their daily lives much more exposure to mathematics, now our experiments have proved that this is really useful. Therefore, you should encourage teachers and parents with children in dialogue greater use of language and mathematics. ”