Parents underestimate it: Five things must master daycare children before first grade
Home Panorama Stand: 07.08.2026, 20:15 Comments We follow on Google Many parents promote their children in an important area less because they..
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Home Panorama Stand: 07.08.2026, 20:15 Comments We follow on Google many parents promote their children in an important area less, because they themselves had problems with it. The cube picture shows children how many moves they are allowed to make – and trains the recording of quantities without having to be counted individually. “This prevents counting with your fingers.” Rhythms in rhymes and songs were also part of this, because patterns are a central topic of mathematics. (Sources: Krajewski: Prediction of computing weakness in primary school (2003), own research). Unfortunately, there are often large discrepancies in what children bring to school in mathematical skills. ‘ If there is no experience of success, the motivation to learn is quickly lost, and this is often difficult to recapture. According to a long-term study by psychologist Kristin Krajewski in 2003, there are five skills that kindergarten children should bring to school.
Furthermore, For more than 20 years Barbara Schindelhauer has been training teachers in daycare centres and has published the book “Komm mit ins Zahlenland” together with the teacher Gerhard Friedrich. Young children know that three cookies are more than one. Expert: Parents often have even bad experiences with mathematics mathematics is often reduced in early education to the memorization of number series and on worksheets. “Math is much more and all around us: quantities, shapes, distances, sizes, location in space, patterns.” Many adults, including educators and parents, “often have had bad experiences with math in school – and this translates to the children who actually have a natural interest in math.” Children would live in a concrete, emotional world, explains the expert. What feels like “a lot”? “It takes many different experiences, with all the senses, in play and in everyday life.” Mathematics can be integrated playfully into everyday family life, says Schindelhauer, for example when eating: children can calculate how many plates are needed, they can weigh quantities, count ingredients and sort the vegetables by size. This is not a burden, but children really feel like it. Number images up to ten recognize Forward and backward counting up to ten – and predecessors or successors of a number know Simple adding and subtracting with a few materials – so understand that numbers can be put together and decomposed into others Seriation: place an element in a predetermined row and thus recognize patterns Board games were also great for math promotion, says Schindelhauer.
In addition, Even young children have a crowd understanding – parents can playfully promote this. (Image) © IMAGO / imagebroker Small children understand more about mathematics than most people realize. “Children are born with a set understanding – one, two or three objects are seen as sets, they just don’t have a name yet,” says Barbara Schindelhauer, founder of the Institute for Preschool Learning (ifvl), the Frankfurter Rundschau of Ippen.Media. These five abilities would have a “high predictive power as to whether children later develop computing weakness”: quantity comparison: A number always stands for a certain quantity, no matter what it consists of or how it is arranged.
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Home Panorama Stand: 07.08.2026, 20:15 Comments We follow on Google many parents promote their children in an important area less, because they themselves had problems with it.
reliability low1/2 sourcesThe cube picture shows children how many moves they are allowed to make – and trains the recording of quantities without having to be counted individually. “This prevents counting with your fingers.” Rhythms in rhymes and songs were also part of this, because patterns are a central topic of mathematics. (Sources: Krajewski: Prediction of computing weakness in primary school (2003), own research)
reliability low1/2 sourcesUnfortunately, there are often large discrepancies in what children bring to school in mathematical skills. ‘ If there is no experience of success, the motivation to learn is quickly lost, and this is often difficult to recapture. According to a long-term study by psychologist Kristin Krajewski in 2003, there are five skills that kindergarten children should bring to school.
reliability low1/2 sourcesFor more than 20 years Barbara Schindelhauer has been training teachers in daycare centres and has published the book “Komm mit ins Zahlenland” together with the teacher Gerhard Friedrich. Young children know that three cookies are more than one. Expert: Parents often have even bad experiences with mathematics mathematics is often reduced in early education to the memorization of number series and on worksheets. “Math is much more and all around us: quantities, shapes, distances, sizes, location in space, patterns.” Many adults, including educators and parents, “often have had bad experiences with math in school – and this translates to the children who actually have a natural interest in math.” Children would live in a concrete, emotional world, explains the expert.
reliability low1/2 sourcesWhat feels like “a lot”? “It takes many different experiences, with all the senses, in play and in everyday life.” Mathematics can be integrated playfully into everyday family life, says Schindelhauer, for example when eating: children can calculate how many plates are needed, they can weigh quantities, count ingredients and sort the vegetables by size. This is not a burden, but children really feel like it.
reliability low1/2 sourcesNumber images up to ten recognize Forward and backward counting up to ten – and predecessors or successors of a number know Simple adding and subtracting with a few materials – so understand that numbers can be put together and decomposed into others Seriation: place an element in a predetermined row and thus recognize patterns Board games were also great for math promotion, says Schindelhauer.
reliability low1/2 sourcesEven young children have a crowd understanding – parents can playfully promote this. (Image) © IMAGO / imagebroker Small children understand more about mathematics than most people realize. “Children are born with a set understanding – one, two or three objects are seen as sets, they just don’t have a name yet,” says Barbara Schindelhauer, founder of the Institute for Preschool Learning (ifvl), the Frankfurter Rundschau of Ippen.Media.
reliability low1/2 sourcesThese five abilities would have a “high predictive power as to whether children later develop computing weakness”: quantity comparison: A number always stands for a certain quantity, no matter what it consists of or how it is arranged.
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