Handing a young child a pencil and a paper covered with arithmetic problems is the surest way to put him into a “hatred of math” phase. But what else is there? “The world is number,” said Pythagoras. Math is all around us, and the beauty and mystery of the patterns can be grasped by even young children. This class explores the hands-on/real-world/open-ended approach, which we call doing “fun math” at our house. Why teach algebra to four year-olds, and calculus to seven year-olds? Not to make them prodigies, but to open the world to them and stimulate their minds in new and exciting ways.
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