All About Abacus Training
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Judy:
Quite true, kids are active. My kid is actually also in the Shichida Method lesson since 1.5 years old, the parent needs to be in the class as well, and as time goes by they can stay through the 1.5 hours lesson.hi dragonball, what janetfong has shared is true.
I first introduced my son to abacus when he was 4, but i realised that he wasn't keen... cos the class is a sit-down environment thus at such young age, it was difficult to keep him sitting still for 1.5 hrs.
But of course all children is different...
If there is abacus class that allows parents in as well, they will be good. -
i hate to stay in for classes.
as specially wif children. When i listen to kids noise for sometime, i feel nausea. :mrgreen:
I feel tat kids need to be tempt to learn things, specially new stuffs. But each kid r different ba. Etc my elder son, he dont like chocolate or sweet. So no matter how hard i tempt him wif sweet stuff, it dont wks. So i offer outing or movie. N it wks for him.
As for my younger son, he got sweet tooth. Anything tat r sweet, will wks for him.
I dont like to use worksheet to teach them maths. I prefer use daily thing to teach them maths. Etc i give him 4 sweets then i ask him to give 2 to his brother. Then i will ask him how many sweets left n etc.
Talking abt stress, i feel sometime they need some push to show their real 'power'. Sometimes stress can wks but not always ba. Stressing them oso help to prepare them when they gtg to prmary sch too. Wat to do.. we r living in sg. -
janetfong:
Speaking of which, it is the act of making parents sit in class that turns them into kiasu parents.i hate to stay in for classes.
as specially wif children. When i listen to kids noise for sometime, i feel nausea. :mrgreen:
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It happened to me when I had to sit in music class with my 4 year old boy in Yamaha. Before that, I had always treated enrichment classes as nice-to-have for children. So for the first time, I was exposed to other children, and most of them appear to already have some background in music. So while my son struggled, most of the others breezed through the lessons. It was then I realized that the world has changed - if I do not give my son a chance to build up his foundation through enrichment classes before primary school, he is going to suffer when he is compared with his peers in primary school. I don't think we had much of a choice. -
Hanor chief, nowadays kids r more stress compare to our childhood days.
N they r more n more clever n smart. I rmb there was 1 day, when my elder son came back from sch, he told he to visit a website which was recommanded by his peers. :shock: He was only 4 yrs old then.
It seems tat most parents today hv explosed the kids wif more \" high tech\" n \"high class\" stuffs. Etc computer, X-box, piano, fencing, golfing n so on.
IF my sons gtg to be liked wat i am when im in my childhood days, im afraid tat them will be struggling when they r wif their peers.
So sometimes, i really think tat if my financially cant afford to hv more kids, is beta to hv 1 or most 2 ba. So i can concentrate n invest on the 1 or 2. -
A lot of people, especially those without kids, think that we are torturing our children with all these enrichment classes. Even the PM himself stated the case of a student who basically spend ALL his time after school with tuition, music and swimming lessons, and who had to eat his lunch in the car when being driven from one class to another.
So if we do it, we get condemned as kiasu parents. If we don’t do it and if everyone else do it, our children get marginalized in their adulthood.
Catch-22. Maybe the best way is to ask our children if they enjoy their enrichment classes and just let them do those they love. It’s not work if they like doing it. -
Ya lor
Tats y i will ask them whether they like it or not, if not then i will withdraw them out. I feel tat is important tat they like these enrichment classes. If not, is a chores to them. -
Judy:
Yuh hor Judy, since your son is in K2 this year, does it mean next week is his first day in Primary school? Which school he going har? Exciting right?Hey all, I am new to this and i am excited when i read all the contributions from you guys!
I am not the in-person for forum but i do feel that i need to share.
My son and my niece is with CMA since July 07. They teach using abacus using 2 hands.
Hm... frankly I cannot tell if it's beneficial to the children, still monitoring. But my son actually scored highest in his K2 maths exam. Though it's exam but think the teacher provide minimal guide when they do the papers.
Anyone has any recommendation on how to test my son? In order to determine if this course in beneficial? -
janetfong:
Ya lor
Tats y i will ask them whether they like it or not, if not then i will withdraw them out. I feel tat is important tat they like these enrichment classes. If not, is a chores to them.
Kids learn faster if they are interested. But my kid is only interested in playing. The course I send him to, he doesn't like it at first, need to condition him for a while before he accept it. Same as the pre nursery that I sent him, there was a period of time when he refused to attend the nursery (especially after a long school holiday). It take sometime before he accepted going to school is part of his routine.
So sometime I wonder, how do we really know if the course we send them to is a chore or for the good of them. Hard been a parent. -
But but but....why need to do mental math when you can use a calculator? :P....I suppose that in the future, you can talk to a calculator...eg. what is the square root of 5.487..and it will shoot back an answer in 1 sec. . How to beat that? :)...It is like learning kung fu, when people are killing each other with guns.
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super_dad:
But but but....why need to do mental math when you can use a calculator? :P....I suppose that in the future, you can talk to a calculator...eg. what is the square root of 5.487..and it will shoot back an answer in 1 sec. . How to beat that? :)...It is like learning kung fu, when people are killing each other with guns.
I suppose this is a way of cultivating the brain. It will look cool if you just stand down there without pressing the calculator and out come the answer to complicated arithmetics. Isn't that cool
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