Encouraging children's instinctive curiosity is a good place to start. Adam Riess, who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics, peppered his parents with questions about math as a child, and they treated his curiosity as natural. On car trips with his family at age 8, 'instead of asking the proverbial, 'Are we there yet?' I'd look at mile markers and the speedometer and figure out how much time we needed to get there,' says Dr. Riess, a professor of astronomy and physics at Johns Hopkins University. 'Math seemed powerful to me.'
教数学可以从激发孩子天生的好奇心开始。约翰?霍普金斯大学(Johns Hopkins University)天体物理学教授、2011年诺贝尔物理学奖得主亚当?里斯(Adam Riess)小时候就喜欢向他父母问东问西,常常都是一些数学问题,而他们觉得这是孩子好奇的天性,所以都一一耐心解答。里斯回忆道,八岁那年,他和家人一起驾车出游,“我没有像别的孩子那样问:我们快到了吗?我是看了里程路牌和车速仪表盘然后算出了到达那里所需的时间。”里斯博士说,“数学于我而言很有用。”
Parents don't have to know math to help kids get off to a good start. Teaching youngsters to make connections between numbers and sets of objects - think showing a child three Cheerios when teaching the number three - helps children understand what numbers mean better than reciting strings of numbers by memory, Dr. Levine says. Doing puzzles together or using gestures to help describe spatial relationships such as 'taller' and 'shorter,' can instill spatial abilities, which are linked to better math skills, she says.
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