In teaching my son about math, I found that I also needed to teach him about the beginnings of counting and why we needed it. My mother gave him The History of Counting
for Christmas.
This is a great book explaining how we as people started counting, the difference between abstract and concrete counting and how our current system evolved.
for Christmas.This is a great book explaining how we as people started counting, the difference between abstract and concrete counting and how our current system evolved.
A light bulb went off in my son while I was reading it to him. We spent a whole day practicing Sumerian counting and writing the symbols for it. He now sees the need for counting things by tens.
I highly recommend this book to help explain the reasons and history behind today's math!
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My father taught me the Sumerian way of counting on hands... I still use it to this day to add and multiply :-)
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