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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Re: Is it worth my child learning how to subitize by using Glenn Doman
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on: December 27, 2016, 01:54:51 AM
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Four types of cards to consider. Ten Frames, Dice, other fixed patterns and random dots from 1 to 10. Your might also want to incorporate colour.
Eight as shown on a ten frame in one colour is clearly 5 + 3 or 10 - 2
Using different colours reveals number bonds to your child - 5 could be shown as on a dice in two colours to demonstrate 1 + 4 and 2 + 3. Remember that your child can only subitize upto 4 so ensure that larger quantities are either shown as a fixed pattern, groups of known patterns and use colour to reveal number bonds. For example nine shown as three rows of three each in a different colour or as a group of 5 and 4 as seen on a dice.
See Number Sense Series: A Sense of Ten and Place Value for more on Ten Frames.
Hope that my response helps.
Chris.
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Re: Is it worth my child learning how to subitize by using Glenn Doman
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on: December 27, 2016, 01:03:10 AM
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I have not been able to find any evidence to support the claims made in the GD maths book. The latest research has shown that babies are not able to subitize beyond three or four. This limit also applies to adults. Adults take longer to state quantities beyond this limit.
The claims made in the GD maths book are not supported by the available evidence. The IAHP have also confirmed that babies lose the claimed ability to subitize sometime prior to their third birthday. Please note that their are no cases of adult savants with the ability to subitize to 100.
I would suggest that you consider Ten Frames to develope a sense of ten and place value. Babies can recognise larger quantities if presented in patterns - conceptual subitizing.
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The BrillKids Forum / Forum Feedback + Questions / Re: Cell Phones and Child Brains: 'Casualty Catastrophe' and more
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on: January 23, 2014, 08:50:56 PM
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I also wasn’t convinced that the signal had to be huge, just statistically significant.
The backfire effect although similar is not the same as the confirmation bias.
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Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. For example, in reading about current political issues, people usually prefer sources that affirm their existing attitudes.They also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations).
A series of experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs. Later work re-interpreted these results as a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and ignoring alternatives. In certain situations, this tendency can bias people's conclusions. Explanations for the observed biases include wishful thinking and the limited human capacity to process information. Another explanation is that people show confirmation bias because they are weighing up the costs of being wrong, rather than investigating in a neutral, scientific way.
Confirmation biases contribute to overconfidence in personal beliefs and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence. Poor decisions due to these biases have been found in military, political, and organizational contexts.
Backfire effect
A similar cognitive bias found in individuals is the backfire effect, in which individuals challenged with evidence contradictory to their beliefs tend to reject the evidence and instead become an even firmer supporter of their initial belief.. The phrase was first coined by Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler in a paper entitled "When Corrections Fail: The persistence of political misperceptions".
Chris.
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The BrillKids Forum / Forum Feedback + Questions / Re: Cell Phones and Child Brains: 'Casualty Catastrophe' and more
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on: January 22, 2014, 09:02:09 PM
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I found the Backfire Effect interesting-see link below. Neil deGrasse Tyson Cell Phones and Cancer
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/C5HM2F13Dfk&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/C5HM2F13Dfk&rel=1</a>]]>“Once something is added to your collection of beliefs, you protect it from harm. You do it instinctively and unconsciously when confronted with attitude-inconsistent information. Just as confirmation bias shields you when you actively seek information, the backfire effect defends you when the information seeks you, when it blindsides you. Coming or going, you stick to your beliefs instead of questioning them. When someone tries to correct you, tries to dilute your misconceptions, it backfires and strengthens them instead.” http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/Chris. |
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EARLY LEARNING / Parents of Children with Special Needs / Re: Getting rid of Primitive Reflexes in my two boys 4 and 8
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on: January 03, 2014, 09:40:06 AM
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They want $6000 for each kid to correct this! I simply don't have that much money to throw around. Has anyone else been in this situation before? How do I get rid of the primitive reflexes? How, if I am teaching rightbrain, are their rightbrains so week? Their left brains were measured 3-4 yrs ahead but their right brains were 2 yrs behind? I am totally confused. Any insight would so so so be appreciated!
Hi Mandy, I hope that you find this useful. “The program has all the red flags of a pseudoscientific clinic. First it claims there is one underlying problem for a host of separate disorders------ In short – it bypasses the long process of research, clinical studies, peer review, and replication and goes directly to a franchise.” http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/brain-balance/ Best wishes Chris. |
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EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: Shichida in English - book review Children Can Change through Right Brain Edu...
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on: July 18, 2013, 10:33:26 PM
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Shichida appears to use the freely available memory linking method. I used a combination of methods to teach my daughter the first thirty elements. See how quickly you can learn the first ten elements in order. The number of items that you can recall is greatly extended if you incorporate periodic review of the material.
First ten elements only.
Peg list based on association 1=pencil 2=bicycle 3=pyramid 4=racing car 5=starfish 6=dice 7=rainbow 8=octopus 9=cat and 10=Pele etc. Bicycle has two wheels, racing car four etc.
Images used for the first 10 elements- 1 zeppelin for Hydrogen, 2 balloons for Helium, 3 camera(lithium battery) for Lithium, 4 berries for Beryllium (substitute/sound like word), 5 bored starfish for Boron, 6 coal for Carbon, 7 Trojan horse for Nitrogen(substitute word), 8 oxygen mask for Oxygen, 9 floor for Fluorine, 10 neon lights for Neon.
Choose a room and decide on locations to store your linked images-start at a corner and moving clockwise arrange your images in these locations:
1 2 3
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7 6 5
Starting at a corner of the room we imagined trying to puncture a noisy zeppelin with a very large pencil. Moving clockwise to the door we see a bicycle with balloons attached to the handle bars-hear the bell ring, burst a balloon. Moving clockwise to the next corner we see the pyramids and take a photograph (Lithium batteries). Again moving clockwise-between corners we see a noisy racing car-we climb in to discover that the seat is made of juicy berries-very messy! In the next corner, behind the door, we hear/see a bored starfish yawning. Location 6- we sit on our large dice shaped chair and discover that it is made of coal. Location 7-we see a beautiful rainbow leading to the wet Trojan horse. Location 8- we see an octopus struggling to breath with an oxygen mask. Location 9- we see our cat sleeping on the floor. Next room-again starting in a corner we see Pele with a giant neon 10 sign on his shoulders.
The Major Memory System is another powerful technique used to remember numbers. With some practice I was able to recall over a 100 digits without any difficulty.
These old techniques will not give your child a photographic memory. Your child will be able to memorise information if they take the time to memorise locations , apply the appropriate techniques and periodically review the material. The techniques are powerful but they require conscious effort.
Chris.
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EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: Shichida in English - book review Children Can Change through Right Brain Edu...
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on: July 17, 2013, 08:22:18 PM
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Shichida’s claims on ESP, QSR and babies ability to subitize large quantities are all evidence-free nonsense. These evidence-free ideas persist in our minds because of confirmation bias. Robust evidence that contradicts our beliefs does not cease to exist, simply because we choose to ignore it. Concerning the ESP study posted earlier- it is important to realise that if enough studies are conducted, a few of the studies will provide a statistically significant result by pure chance and it is these results that the media decide to publish. Glenn Doman also makes misleading claims in his “Teach Your Baby Maths” book. The book claims that babies can effortlessly subitize beyond 100 and that they can use this ability to perform complex mental calculations. The evidence from this forum alone contradicts these claims, yet many of us here cling onto our original acceptance of the claim and choose to ignore the evidence. If an idea disagrees with experiment it is wrong.
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/OL6-x0modwY&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/OL6-x0modwY&rel=1</a>]]>Chris. |
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