菲奥娜·卡梅隆(Fiona Cameron)是加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳市(Pasadena)的一名财务顾问,她在自己的学生时代曾备受数学的折磨,但如今她仍在试着培养两个孩子──五岁的伊恩(Iain)和三岁的梅莉(Mhairi)──对数学的兴趣。卡梅隆说,她会让孩子们在睡前翻看图形书并认出那些图形,像一条鳗鱼身上的“条-条-点”之类的。卡梅隆还会从“睡前数学”网站(Bedtime Math)上挑选一些日常问题来问自己的孩子。“睡前数学”是一家专门帮父母将数学知识融于孩子日常生活中的非盈利网站,建于去年2月份。
The site posts a playful math question each day related to daily life and current events, such as the Olympics, and pushes 'kids to wrestle with it in their heads, while talking with their parents about how to do it,' says founder Laura Bilodeau Overdeck of Summit, NJ, a former high-tech strategy consultant.
这家网站的创始人劳拉?毕洛多?欧文德克(Laura Bilodeau Overdeck)曾是新泽西州萨米特市(Summit)的一名高科技策略顾问,她说,睡前数学网站每天都会发布一个好玩儿的、与日常生活和时事相关的数学问题,像奥运会之类的,然后促使孩子们一边动脑筋想办法解答,一边和父母谈论解决方式。
Baking in the kitchen, Ms. Cameron explains fractions while having each of her children crack half the eggs. Filling muffin cups becomes a subtraction problem: 'If we fill eight muffin cups and there are 12 in all, how many more do we have to fill?' Thanks to this 'stealth math' approach, her kids are having fun solving problems, she says.
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