Why 5-Year-Old Kids Can Do Algebra

March 16, 2014

Find algebra difficult? Well, think about this: Scientists find that even 5-year-old kids can do it. Now do you feel better?

If not, maybe this will help. Preschoolers can do basic algebra — and we do mean very basic — through gut instincts that we share with a lot of other animals, but by the time we get fully involved in the educational process algebra will become a lot more difficult. Read more
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  1. Reply  

    Sam Jacob

    March 16, 2014

    I think 5 year old will do much better than others..

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    John Said

    March 16, 2014

    this line —-Our natural instincts with numbers will be "replaced by rule-based problem solving,"  i think is where education often fails.

    we are given the rule, rather than 'discovering' the rule on our own.  The rules in algebra at least for me lacked depth of real world experience.  It needs to be real and relevant for it to sink in. 

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    Animesh nandi

    March 17, 2014

    sone one lucky by birth and God gifted by intelligence  

  14. Reply  

    Christian Counts

    March 17, 2014

    +John Said precisely that's the difference between education which induces that which is within, and indoctrination which gives you an ideal.

  16. Reply  

    Christian Counts

    March 17, 2014

    "True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages." – Egyptian Proverb

  20. Reply  

    Timothy Mckiness

    March 17, 2014

    Standard trademark of the star child. Nothing like a five year old putting Edward Einstein to shame.

  31. Reply  

    Rick Siegel

    April 8, 2014

    Joni Mitchell sez, "When it comes to mathematics,I got static in the attic…no sir,not much clear."                                      Good days to you, and to all.

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