Becoming Numerate

I specialized in math learning and teaching for over 40 years. I worked in a charter school, a private school and public schools on three continents as well as directing a learning center for home learners. I have taught thousands of children math and am in awe of how children develop quantitative thinking and become numerate. Mathematical thinking like linguistic thinking is a process that has its own individual rate and style of development which, with the right nurturing and stimulation flourishes by itself. If however methods rather than concepts are insisted on, a child’s ability to think mathematically is compromised and the…