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99 exercises for freeing children's intelligence
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 15x21
Pages: 210
ISBN: 978-88-590-1014-2
Publication date: 01/03/2016
Suitable for: Primary 1st level (ages 6-7), Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10), Lower secondary 1st level (ages 10-11), Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)
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From the teacher Camillo Bortolato, a new and innovative book dedicated to problem solving with the conscious and justified use of a calculator.
The book contains a series of problems, designed as intuitive individual challenges that children can carry out in class or at home.
The problems exploit the true solving strategies of our minds and our intelligence. The use of a calculator is recommended in order to overcome difficulties in some of the calculations and to create a more rewarding atmosphere of collective study.
Due to the graphic solutions adopted, the problems have a therapeutic value for all those children who mistakenly identify mathematics with the operations of the discipline.
Each problem comes with a midpoint tip and a solution.
The games do not only target children but also adults who want to engage in enjoyable, fun challenges of a brain-teasing nature.
Breaking down problems with a calculator will cause a revolution in schools, allowing children to tackle all primary school problems right from the first two years of school. This is due to the calculator, which substitutes the «algorithmic execution of the calculation».
Children will develop these tricky, mechanical operations later on, as they require years of training and absorb nearly their whole time at school.
In this way children’s intelligence is freed and mental calculation is raised to the level it deserves.
Relief and joy at having an unwitting talent for problem solving will surface.
- Adding
- Cutting
- Proportionality
- Advanced strategies
Intuitive solving: 13 problems which require an intuitive type solution. The arrows help direct attention.
Solving algebra: 12 problems where an algebra solution is suggested, where, like with proportions, procedures without representations are used.
Sometimes children fail to solve mathematical problems not because they do not possess logical skills but because they get lost in the description of the problem. Teacher Camillo Bortolato, with his intuitive approach at the base of The Analogical Method, has created three mini block pads containing hundreds of problems turned into picture games, inspired by Sudoku and other brain teasers. Primary and lower secondary school children will be able to focus on the logical aspects of the problems, and, bypassing the confusing textual descriptions, anxiety will be dissipated.
Each problem is designed as an intuitive individual challenge, accompanied by graphic hooks and with a midpoint tip that leads children towards the solution. In class or at home, problems’ anxiety will be dissipated and children will no longer doubt their abilities!
Breaking down problems
90 exercises for overcoming your fear of mathematics
Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10), Lower secondary 1st level (ages 10-11), Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)
Due to the graphic solutions adopted, the problems do not involve any arithmetic and have a therapeutic value for all those children who mistakenly identify mathematics with the operations of the discipline. The problem-solving skills required are the same ones that children use in their daily lives, outside of school, and are related to their experiences. The graphic and illustrated representation of the problem is simple and facilitates resolution through intuition.
Leaf through some pages of the volume which have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation of the product:
Breaking down problems with a calculator
99 exercises for freeing children's intelligence
Primary 1st level (ages 6-7), Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10), Lower secondary 1st level (ages 10-11), Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)
The use of a calculator is recommended in order to overcome difficulties in some of the calculations and to create a more rewarding atmosphere of collective study. The calculator allows children to tackle all primary school problems, even the ones with high numbers, right from the first two years of school.
Breaking down problems with proportions
100 problems to calmly prepare for lower secondary school
The volume is an incursion into the secondary school curriculum for primary school pupils who want to discover it in advance. It is also useful for older children, as review and reinforcement material. The problems contained in this proposal stimulate to choose, at first intuitively, strategies and procedures to be used then consciously, restoring confidence and joy in facing mathematical challenges.
Leaf through some pages of the volume which have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation of the product:
