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sup /g/,

my 7 year old frikkin loves math. his last math work was adding change, memorizing addition+subtraction and basic times tables.

i tried to describe to him what algebra was. and he wants to learn it. how do you teach algebra to a 7 year old?

>> No.4178976

Same way you'd teach it to anyone. Example and practice.

>> No.4178984

Start off with a question mark rather than a letter and then as you add more question marks in swap them out for letters so he gets the basic concept right off the bat.

>> No.4178999

>>4178984
This or blank spots.

Squares and square roots is a good topic to teach young.

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>> No.4179017

Word problems are a good way to ease the concept in. You know make it relate to him.

>> No.4179023

somebody in /g/ explained a teaching method (description below) and im wondering if /sci/ knows the name of the method.

>I learned it when I was nine, we used a system where we had blocks that were worth certain amounts, and one block was X, and the blocks were placed on a mat with a picture of a scale. Different blocks would go on different sides, of course. We started out with a few activities taking blocks away from both sides to hit zero (to understand it, I guess), then moved onto having one X block, then 2 X blocks, etc. It was pretty damned fun, actually. I hope when I have a kid, mine takes as much interest in math as yours apparently does.

>> No.4179040

Above all else teach him why it is that way don't just do what they will do in school and tell him how to solve it without knowing why.
Trying to catch up 15 years of mathematics because public school teaching was terrible is a ballache that's taken me 4 months from algebra to almost finishing a precalc course and I still feel retarded everytime a maths question is posted on /sci.

>> No.4179054

>>4179040
yeah, we're in one of the worst school districts in california too. give you a hint, its oakland. our superintendent is more worried about guns, gang colors and attendance then academia.

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>>4178975

So OP called us /g/, and we didn't even try to counter it? Fuck..

>> No.4179078

>>4179040
I'm doing something similar. When I was younger I couldn't wrap my head around the point of the math I was learning. now I'm about a year behind what I should be. Public schooling :/

>> No.4179091

>>4179070
whoops. copy pasta from /g/ thread. sorry /sci/.

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My 11 y/o does complex surface geometry, Codaire classification, he distinguishes kaehler from non-kaehler surfaces, knows Riemann-Rosch theorem, does the Yang-Mills equation, he also mastered quantitive algebraic Gromov topology the last month ref.: "Metric structures for Riemannian and non-Riemannian spaces".

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>>4179167
But has he appeared on Glenn Beck's show? No? Pfft. Loser.

>> No.4179179

>>4179174
We don't watch the TV.
BAM! You missed.

>> No.4179180

>>4179167
how did you do it?

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>> No.4179206

>>4179187
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
>children.