Math for the Talented and Gifted Child.: Grades K-3

By James Paicopolos

Talented and Gifted Child is a math series that was developed for Classroom and Homeschool programs. It explores counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in a fun, innovative way. Although this book is designed for exceptionally bright children, it can also be used by teachers in the classroom or by parents at home.Jim Paicopolos has taught in Mexico, USA, and China. He observed first-hand how Chinese education differs from American Education. While teaching in Nanjing Child, he first learned from the Chinese Public School teachers, he worked with, the Chinese way of teaching math. According to a report published by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, third-graders in China are almost equivalent to U.S. high school students in math and science. Yes, it's true, eight-year-olds in China are doing what our 14-18-year-old American High School students are doing in Algebra and Geometry. With the goal of closing this learning gap, this book integrates the best Chinese educational practices with the best American educational practices.You may be wondering, how do you teach 5-8-year-old advanced math concepts? Confucius in his teachings, states that a teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; the teacher encourages them to go ahead and does not chastise them; The teacher opens the way, but does not lead them to the concept. Guiding the child without pulling or shoving the child along in the process of learning gentle; urging without suppression and makes the process of learning easy; thus opening the way without leading the student to the next chapter in the math book but instead makes the students think for themselves. When the process of learning is made gentle and easy and the students are encouraged to do and to think for himself/herself, we may then call the teacher a master of teaching.Unfortunately too often instead education "it top to bottom" where the classroom teacher has little input into her own classroom and instead must follow the what the powers that are all knowing and seeing. Is the teacher dares to listen to the sound of a different drummer, they risk and fear to get a bad evaluation. In reality, the best teachers, who really know how to teach math so that learning really takes place are "put out to pasture" while corporate-driven education supplants innovation a true teaching ability.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793066442
• ISBN13: 9781793066442
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"