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MI IS RY OF EDUCA IO OF HE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS EDUCA IO AL ES ABLISHME “ BELARUSIA S A E PEDAGOGICAL U IVERSI Y AMED AF ER MAXIM A K” FOREIG LA GUAGES DEPAR ME ACQUAI A CE WI H GEOME RY AS O E OF HE MAI GOALSOF EACHI G MA HEMA ICS O PRESCHOOL CHILDRE Execu ed by: s ude of magis racy depar me Yulia А dreev a Du ai ( el.: 8-029-3468595) Scie ific Supervisor: Professor Doc or of pedagogical scie ce, I.V. Zhi ko E glish Supervisor: Doc or of Psychology Associa e Professor . G. Olov ikova Mi sk, 2009 CO E S I RODUC IO I. HIS ORICAL PA ER S A D PERSPEC IVES OF EACHI G MA HEMA ICS I PRIMARY SCHOOL II. HE PURPOSES A D CO E OF MODER MA HEMA ICAL EDUCA IO I PRIMARY SCHOOL III. HE ME HODS OF CHILD’S ACQUAI A CE WI H GEOME RIC SHAPES CO CLUSIO CO E S REFERE CES I RODUC IO You g childre &quo ;do&quo ; ma h spo a eously i heir lives a d i heir play. Ma hema ical lear i g for you g childre is much more ha he radi io al cou i g a d ari hme ic skills. I i cludes a varie y of ma hema ical sec io s of amo g which he impor a place belo gs o geome ry. We've all see preschoolers explori g shapes a d pa er s, drawi g a d crea i g geome ric desig s, aki g joy i recog izi g a d ami g specific shapes hey see. his is geome ry — a area of ma hema ics ha is o e of he mos a ural a d fu for you g childre . Geome ry is he s udy of shapes, bo h fla a d hree dime sio al, a d heir rela io ships i space. Preschool a d ki dergar e childre ca lear much from playi g wi h blocks, ma ipula ives (Je se a d О' eil), differe bu ordi ary objec s ( Julie Sarama, Douglas H. Cleme s), boxes, s acks a d meal (Elle Boo h Church). Also card games, compu er games, board games, a d o hers all help childre lear geome ry. his problem is releva because he geome rical co cep s should be formed si ce early childhood. Geome rical co cep s help childre o perceive he world. Also i will provide fu ure success i academic achieveme : as he rudime s , childre lear i primary school, from he basis for fur her lear i g of geome ry. Game me hods help childre o u ders a d some complex phe ome a i geome ry. hey also are ecessary for he developme of emo io ally-posi ive a i udes a d i eres o he ma hema ics a d geome ry. I. HIS ORICAL PA ER S A D PERSPEC IVES OF EACHI G MA HEMA ICS I PRIMARY SCHOOL hroughou his ory, ma hema ical co cep s a d sys ems have bee developed i respo se o real-life problems. For example, he zero, which was i ve ed by he Babylo ia s arou d 700 в.с, by he Maya s abou 400 a.d., a d by he Hi dus abou 800 a.d., was firs used o fill a colum of umbers i which here were o e desired. For example, a 8 a d a 3 ex o each o her is 83; bu if you wa he umber o read 803 a d you pu some hi g be wee he 8 a d 3 (o her ha emp y space), i is more likely o be read accura ely (Baroody, 1987). Whe i comes o cou i g, allyi g, or hi ki g abou umerical qua i y i ge eral, he huma physiological fac of e fi gers a d e oes has led i all ma hema ical cul ures o some sor of decimal sys em. His ory's early focus o applied ma hema ics is a viewpoi we would do well o remember oday.
A few hu dred years ago a u iversi y s ude was co sidered educa ed if he could use his fi gers o do simple opera io s of ari hme ic (Baroody, 1987); ow we expec he same of a eleme ary school child. he amou of ma hema ical k owledge expec ed of childre oday has become so ex e sive a d complex ha i is easy o forge ha solvi g real-life problems is he ul ima e goal of ma hema ical lear i g. he firs graders i Suza e Colvi 's classes demo s ra ed he effec ive ess of lyi g i s ruc io o mea i gful si ua io s. I ’s possible o recall ha more ha 300 years ago, Come ius poi ed ou ha you g childre migh be augh o cou bu ha i akes lo ger for hem o u ders a d wha he umbers mea . oday, classroom research such as Suza e Colvi 's demo s ra es ha you g childre eed o be give mea i gful si ua io s firs a d he umbers ha represe various compo e s a d rela io ships wi hi he si ua io s. he i flue ces of Joh Locke a d Jea Jacques Rousseau are fel oday as well. Locke shared a popular view of he ime ha he world was a fixed, mecha ical sys em wi h a body of k owledge for all o lear . Whe he applied his view o educa io , Locke described he eachi g a d lear i g process as wri i g his world of k owledge o he bla k-sla e mi d of he child. I his ce ury, Locke's view co i ues o be a popular o e. I is especially popular i ma hema ics, where i ca be more easily argued ha , a leas a he early levels, here is a body of k owledge for childre o lear . B. F. Ski er, who applied his view o a philosophy of behaviorism, referred o ma hema ics as &quo ;o e of he drill subjec s.&quo ; While Locke recomme ded e er ai i g games o each ari hme ic fac s, Ski er developed eachi g machi es a d accompa yi g drills, precursors o oday's compu erized ma h drills. O e cri ic of his approach o ma hema ics lear i g has said ha , while i may be useful for memorizi g umbers such as hose i a elepho e lis i g, i has failed o provide a powerful expla a io of more complex form: of lear i g a d hi ki g, such as memorizi g mea i gful i forma io or problem solvi g. his approach has, i par icular, bee u able o provide a sou d descrip io of he complexi ies i volved i school lear i g, like he mea i gful lear i g of he basic combi a io s or solvi g word problems (Baroody, 1987). Rousseau's views of how childre lear were qui e differe , reflec i g his prefere ce for a ural lear i g i a suppor ive e viro me . Duri g he la e eigh ee h ce ury as oday, his view argues for real-life, i formal ma hema ics lear i g. While his approach is more closely alig ed o curre hi ki g abou he way childre lear ha is he Locke/Ski er approach, i ca have he u desired effec of givi g childre so li le guida ce ha hey lear almos o hi g a all. he view ha seems mos sui able for you g childre is ha i spired by cog i ive heoris s, primary amo g hem Jea Piage . hree ypes of k owledge were ide ified by Piage (Kamii a d Joseph, 1989), all of which are eeded for u ders a di g ma hema ics. he firs is physical, or empirical, k owledge, which mea s bei g able o rela e o he physical world. For example, before a child ca cou marbles by droppi g hem i o a jar, she eeds o k ow how o hold a marble a d how i will fall dow ward whe dropped.
he seco d ype of k owledge is logico-ma hema ical, a d co cer s rela io ships as crea ed by he child. Perhaps a you g child holds a large red marble i o e ha d a d a small blue marble i he o her. If she simply feels heir weigh a d sees heir colors, her k owledge is physical (or empirical). Bu if she o es he differe ces a d similari ies be wee he wo, she has me ally crea ed rela io ships. he hird ype of k owledge is social k owledge, which is arbi rary a d desig ed by people. For example, ami g umbers o e, wo, a d hree is social k owledge because, i a o her socie y, he umbers migh be ichi, i, sa or u o, dos, res. (Keep i mi d, however, ha he real u ders a di g of wha hese umbers mea belo gs o logico-ma hema ical k owledge.) Co s a ce Kamii (Kamii a d DeClark, 1985), a Piage ia researcher, has spe ma y years s udyi g he ma hema ical lear i g of you g childre . Af er a alyzi g eachi g ech iques, he views of ma h educa ors, a d America ma h ex books, she has co cluded ha our educa io al sys em of e co fuses hese hree ki ds of k owledge. Educa ors e d o provide childre wi h ple y of ma ipula ives, assumi g ha hey will i er alize ma hema ical u ders a di g simply from his physical experie ce. Or educa ors ig ore he ma ipula ives a d focus i s ead o pe cil-a d-paper ac ivi ies aimed a eachi g he ames of umbers a d various ma hema ical erms, assumi g ha his social k owledge will be i er alized as real ma h lear i g. Some hi g is missi g from bo h approaches, says Kamii. radi io ally, ma hema ics educa ors have o made he dis i c io amo g he hree ki ds of k owledge a d believe ha ari hme ic mus be i er alized from objec s (as if i were physical k owledge) a d people (as if i were social k owledge). hey overlook he mos impor a par of ari hme ic, which is logico-ma hema ical k owledge. I he Piage ia radi io , Kamii argues ha &quo ;childre should rei ve ari hme ic.&quo ; O ly by co s ruc i g heir ow k owledge ca childre really u ders a d ma hema ical co cep s. Whe hey permi childre o lear i his fashio , adul s may fi d ha hey are i roduci g some co cep s oo early while pu i g o hers off oo lo g. Kamii's research has led her o co clude, as Suza e Colvi did, ha firs graders E d sub rac io oo difficul . Kamii argues for savi g i u il la er, whe i ca be lear ed quickly a d easily. She also poi s o s udies i which place value is mas ered by abou 50 perce of four h graders a d 23 perce of a group of seco d graders. Ye place value a d regroupi g are regularly expec ed of seco d graders! As a example of wha childre ca do earlier ha expec ed, Kamii (1985) poi s o heir discovery (or rei ve io ) of ega ive umbers, a co cep ha does ' eve appear i eleme ary ma h ex books. Based o her experie ces wi h you g childre , Kamii argues ha i is impor a o le childre hi k for hemselves a d i ve heir ow ma hema ical sys ems. Wi h Piage , she believes ha childre will u ders a d much more, developi g a be er cog i ive fou da io as well as self-co fide ce: childre who are co fide will lear more i he lo g ru ha hose who have bee augh i ways ha make hem dis rus heir ow hi ki g.
A hacker working on some programming language or operating system might likewise be able to get a day job using it. When I say that the answer is for hackers to have day jobs, and work on beautiful software on the side, I'm not proposing this as a new idea. This is what open source hacking is all about. What I'm saying is that open source is probably the right model, because it has been independently confirmed by all the other makers. It seems surprising to me that any employer would be reluctant to let hackers work on open source projects. At Viaweb, we would have been reluctant to hire anyone who didn't. When we interviewed programmers, the main thing we cared about was what kind of software they wrote in their spare time. You can't do anything really well unless you love it, and if you love to hack you'll inevitably be working on projects of your own. Because hackers are makers rather than scientists, the right place to look for metaphors is not in the sciences, but among other kinds of makers. What else can painting teach us about hacking? One thing we can learn, or at least confirm, from the example of painting is how to learn to hack
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