What are Cuisenaire Strips and how to learn math with them
The Cuisenaire strips are the educational resource most used by teachers and families who are aware of the great value of manipulative material for children and adolescents to learn mathematics. In the following article, you will discover what rulers are and how, thanks to them, your children or your students…
Explanation of Roman numerals for children
Many children find it difficult to master Roman numerals at school as it is a very specific content that they are not familiar with in their daily lives. Also, having to memorize them makes it a monotonous and boring task. However, actually learning Roman numerals can be very simple if…
Think Twice About Sending Your Child to School Too Early
Sending children to school at an early age is convenient for working parents. If you are thinking of doing this for your child, here are some reasons you should reconsider: Disrupted attachment Attachment is crucial during a child’s first three years. They learn to form a primary attachment and secondary…
Ladder method: A strategy to motivate children
To bet for an education development, which motivates the child to consider and overcome their own challenges, can become a great challenge for parents. Sometimes it is difficult to find the best way to encourage them and then there is a risk of falling into extremes, in which case the…
Strategy to teach children to subtract
Subtraction is one of the mathematical operations that children first learn, after addition. It is a very useful operation since it allows them to determine how many elements remains in a set after subtracting a part, without having to recount the whole set. So you can quickly know, for example,…
The importance of early childhood education
The socialization of the child in their initial stage is one of the most important processes that without a doubt will give positive results in the future in terms of their development, interaction and behavior in society. Giving it on time and at the right time will guarantee a better…
Why Montessori pedagogy is not for everyone
More and more schools and parents have realized that some aspects of conventional education have become obsolete. Therefore, it is time to discover new pedagogical methods in order to give our children the best possible education. However, the different pedagogies that exist today diverge a lot from each other, so…
When is the best time to take babies to kindergarten?
There are many parents who wonder when is the best time to take their children to nursery school (also known as daycare). Daily responsibilities or work, make parents need a place of trust where they can leave their babies while they go out to earn a salary. But in reality…
The importance of the parent involvement in school
It can happen that there are parents who think that the schools are exclusively responsible for being able to educate the children and that they learn the necessary knowledge to be able to develop and become an effective and successful adult. But this is not the case and many parents…
10 keys for your child to enjoy math
One of the most recurrent questions everybody asks himself is: how to do to enjoy the mathematics of my son? I admit, it does not have an easy answer because as we all know “every child and every family is a world”. Even so, today I want to share with…