maths- what happens when you complete prog and are unsuccessful

[Joha]

Fatima,

First of all, I agree with kappasweet, I don't think you guys have been unsucessful. I'm sorry if I didn't explain myself well.  Now, my message was directed to Aguh because she mentioned her baby was loosing interest. That is why I thought that maybe they could take a break and it was just a suggestion. I now this is not what we would like to hear, we are so excited about all their learning. Having said that we need to follow our children cues because I also think that if we force them the results can be the opposite of what we are looking for with the teaching.

I hope this makes sense.

[fatima786]

hi joha

i understand what you mean. i think i should also give it a weeks break though. it seems i am enjoying maths more than my son is. it is important to follow their cue. although he looks at the screen something tells me that he isnt enjoying it 100% right now. i dont see that spark. doman says learning is suppose to be joyful.
i actually have to thank u because otherwise i wouldnt have followed my instinct and right now my instinct is telling me to give it a break.

i need to bring the joy back somehow. thats what will make it successful.

[Aguh]

Dear Joha, Kappasweet and Skylark

Thank you for your advices. I slept a night through it and now I can put everything better together.

In the second 2 sessions, I would not say that he performed the instant math and got the question wrong, I would say he did not do the calculation at all because he did not feel like it.

Kappasweet, that makes sense. I didn't think about that before. But I remember that in the Domans' book they mentioned it, too. They said the child only showed his/her knowledge if he/she wish to do so or felt like it.  I will keep that in mind now.

Joha and Skylark, I will shorten the session to 5 numbers and equations seperately.. So maybe we aren't able to do the program as fast as proposed (because  9 sessions math a day is too much for me to organise).

I was afraid of not having enough time to go through the math program and that she will be to late for Doman's Math one day. I have read that DomanMom's Hunter have learned math successful in spite of he started late at almost 30months. But I was still afraid that my daughter could lose her dots perception ability sooner. So I wanted stick to the program and also with its speed. But know I understand that the most important thing is to get her interest, otherwise she seems not to learn at all or just very very little.

I still think I need to teach her the "higher numbers" above 10 again. But with short sessions and using ret dots instead of icons in LM.

Actually we have taken breaks from maths several times already since I often felt that she is not like math much. Now I am unsure about taking break again.

Recently I have read the free online book from right brain kids, there they explain why teaching should be joyful (Doman only said that but did not explan why) - because the right brain is activated/active by being peaceful, calmful, joyful, loved or in another word, by being in alpha wave. If they are angry then their righ brain seems not to get in the information properly.

I will let you know about our progress.

By the way, that would still be great if some of you could tell about your math programm story and how you overcome failures. The Math program seems to be more difficult to teach and to pass then the reading program. One reasing is it's more difficult to make math interesting all time.

[Skylark]

"Joha and Skylark, I will shorten the session to 5 numbers and equations seperately.. So maybe we aren't able to do the program as fast as proposed (because  9 sessions math a day is too much for me to organise). "

You can always try to skip two dots sessions, some other people here mentioned it worked for them.... Doing 1 and 2nd 5 cards sessions in order; then 3 and 4th randomly, and skipping another 2 random sessions. It should be OK, since you will be continuing showing these cards to your child afterwards as part of equasions...

It also was difficult for me to plan 9 separate sessions. What worked for me ( Thank you, Trinity Papa for suggestion), I have each session with two sets of 5 numbers ( so it is in fact session 1 and session 2), I show the first set, then switch activity and do some other activity for a few minutes, usually some action, or something very different from the math dots, and then do the second 5 number set from the given session. This way works the best for me, as we are out a lot due to my work, and sometimes can not do much "official"    school time for large portions of the day.

About Red Dots

I created my sessions in LR, and customised them using red dots only, as I feel it works better for my daughter and helps her to concentrate, somewhat of a uniformed approach. You can download the pre-sets that I made at

http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?cat=218

And here I explained the details about these pre-sets : http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-math/gd-math-dots-sessions-available!-updated/

Hope it will be a help....

 
 

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