How to cultivate children's ability to calculate and read quickly?

In my usual study, I attach great importance to cultivating children's ability to calculate and read quickly. While other parents are teaching their children to learn Olympic Mathematics and read famous books in order to improve their children's intelligence, I have spent more energy on improving their speed calculation and speed reading. Because in my opinion, the learning process should be happy. There are two effective ways to make children learn happily and reduce the pressure of learning: one is to play while learning, and try to develop the happy elements in learning through various forms of games, so as to stimulate and care for children's interest in learning and let them experience the fun brought by learning. If this can be done, even if learning is "bitter", children will feel that learning is "sweet". The second is to improve the speed and accuracy of children's reading, writing and calculation. If children can improve the speed of quick calculation and reading through proper and interesting training. Doing homework faster, reading faster and learning more efficiently will win you more entertainment time and more time to do things you are interested in outside of study, which will reduce the harm that boring learning brings to children.

Speed calculation and speed reading are very important for children's learning, but unfortunately, many parents still don't realize the benefits of speed calculation and speed reading to their children. Many children did very well in primary school and did well in every exam. However, when I got to middle school, my grades went down inexplicably. Many parents can't find the reason why their children's grades have dropped. They always think that it is a problem of children's learning attitude, or because the middle school curriculum is difficult and children's intelligence can't keep up. Little known is that the real reason for the decline in children's grades is probably the speed problem, because poor learning efficiency leads to the decline in children's grades. Because primary schools only have two main courses, Chinese and mathematics, and in some places there are three courses, plus a foreign language. Therefore, children are slow in primary school and have low learning efficiency. I don't think so. In middle school, the number of courses suddenly increased to seven or eight, and all subjects had to be tested. At this time, many children who are slow to study and do problems in primary schools began to be at a loss.

Therefore, in primary school, it is very wise to cultivate children's good habits of fast calculation, fast reading and shorthand, develop high accuracy of fast calculation and fast reading as soon as possible, and improve children's learning efficiency.

Below I will sort out my own experience in cultivating children's speed calculation and speed reading, hoping to bring you some enlightenment.

I have attached great importance to children's quick calculation ability since the first grade children first came into contact with mathematics. In this respect, I spend more time on training children, and the training methods are generally carried out through competitions or games. I remember that when children learn addition and subtraction within 20 once a year, I realize that the proficiency of addition and subtraction within 20 will bring lifelong benefits to children. Because the calculation within 20 is the foundation of the foundation. Especially 2+9, 3+9, 4+9, 5+9, 6+9, 7+9, 8+9, 9+9, 3+8, 4+8, 5+8, 6+8, 7+8, 8+8, 4+7, 5+. Because many children are not proficient in addition and subtraction in 20 years, they often spend a lot of time calculating and doing homework in class, often making mistakes, and even affecting their understanding of application problems because of their inexperience in calculation. Many children often make mistakes in this simplest calculation when they are in senior grades, which affects the accuracy of doing problems.

Based on this, when my child is exposed to addition and subtraction within 20 minutes, I often have oral arithmetic training with my child on the way to and from school or when I take my child out for a walk. I applied for a problem, and asked the children to work it out quickly. Of course, this kind of training is random and requires children's willingness to cooperate. Usually at home, after my children finish their homework, I often have various quick calculation competitions with my children. Every day is not long, 5- 10 minutes. In order to improve the speed of children's calculation, I also bought a stopwatch to time children, count the time of each calculation, and encourage them to break through their best results. Because of the fierce competition in the game, the children are very willing. I also made a quick calculation competition table for children, and gave this calculation table a nice name-challenge the world record and strive to be the world champion. In order to let children have a goal of quick calculation, I divide the results of quick calculation into four levels: city record, provincial record, national record and world record. The city record time is 4 minutes and 30 seconds /50 questions, the provincial record is 4 minutes 10 seconds /50 questions, the national record is 3 minutes and 50 seconds /50 questions, and the world record is 3 minutes and 30 seconds /50 questions. The error rate of 50 questions is controlled within 2 questions (including 2 questions). Through their own efforts, every time the children break a record, I applaud them, satisfy their little wishes and encourage them to break a higher record. Of course, this kind of competition should also take into account children's interests, and the number of times a week should not be too much.

Oral arithmetic training with playing cards is also a game we often play. When playing cards, if the child's oral expression ability is not strong, the flower card can be removed. With the improvement of children's speech ability, cards can be added. J can be 1 1, Q can be 12, and K can be 13, which increases the difficulty of calculation. If two people play cards, they can play the game of adding and subtracting two numbers with their children. If you play cards with three people, you can add and subtract three numbers, and so on. All this is best based on the child's actual computing ability at that time, and try to make the child "jump up".

I remember that when I first played computer games with my children with playing cards, the children's computing ability was obviously slow. In order to make children interested in playing, sometimes I will deliberately lose to him. But I'm worried that my son will see through the "trick" I lost to him, in order to make my performance realistic. At first, I used the method of counting after three seconds, that is, after I played cards with my son, I counted it three times in my mind, and then counted it three times before counting. Because I gave my son three seconds, the performance was very realistic. My son and I are basically synchronized in calculation speed, and we win and lose each other. The game is very fierce. Most of the time, we both reported the answers almost at the same time. Later, as my son's computing ability improved a lot, three seconds was not enough. I started the tactic for two seconds, and then one second. In this way, my son's calculation speed has been greatly improved. After a period of training, my son's language ability has improved rapidly, and many times I feel that I can't cope with him.

By chance, my son's interest in oral arithmetic was greatly improved, and his confidence in his quick calculation ability was also greatly increased.

Last year, my son's grandfather celebrated his 70th birthday. Our family rushed to the countryside to celebrate grandpa's birthday and stayed at his house that night. Because there was nothing to do in the evening, we began to play the game of counting with playing cards again. We also live with two children, both one year older than our son and one year older. Two children joined in, so there was a quick calculation competition between the three children. As a result, my son won a great victory, and all three games ended with his son winning all the playing cards in the hands of two older children. Since this competition, my son has become more and more interested in fast computing games. I often challenge my classmates and diving team with playing cards.

Second, read quickly.

With the deepening of the concept of new curriculum reform, many teachers and parents now realize the importance of letting children read a lot of extracurricular books in their spare time. But quite a few parents don't know how to guide their children to read. Many parents believe that as long as they buy extra-curricular books and urge their children to read them, they have completed their mission. In fact, parents still have a more important thing to do, that is, pay attention to their children's reading ability. Nowadays, parents have a misunderstanding about reading itself. Parents are afraid of their children reading fast, because once they read fast, they are worried that their children will not understand and that they will read less. In a sense, it actually limits the development of children's reading ability. It should be noted that if you want to understand what you read, you must concentrate; To concentrate, we should speed up reading appropriately. Reading slowly, the brain can't get excited, and it's easy to get distracted and can't understand. Many children learn from childhood and like to read word by word, reading only one or two words at a time. It should be noted that normal eyes can see seven words or more in an instant. If you only look at one word at a time, it will greatly waste your extra vision. If you only look at a word for a while, it is easy to miss words and drop words. My son can read early. When he was in grade one, he had known more than 2500 words. While other children are still reading word by word with the teacher, the son has already started reading early. But I know that it is not enough to let my son start reading extracurricular books, but also to tell him some reading skills. Tell my son to learn some "speed reading" methods. Because today's society has entered the era of information explosion, the "sea of books" is constantly expanding, and there are too many things to browse and read every day. If you want to read more books and master more information in a limited time, you must improve your reading speed and have the ability to read quickly. Relevant data show that the reading speed of China people is too low. This is not to say that China people are not smart, nor that there is something wrong with our Chinese characters, but that there is something wrong with the way we read and the way we educate our children to read. In the era of information explosion, it is an important ability to obtain information quickly and effectively. People with strong reading ability are more capable of collecting, understanding and judging information, so as to improve their knowledge, develop their potential and use information to effectively participate in complex actions in modern society. Therefore, in the process of teaching children how to read, the cultivation of children's speed reading ability can not be ignored. Therefore, guiding children to read scientifically can not only prevent children from dropping or missing words in reading, but also make it easier for children to concentrate and improve their reading speed by several times or dozens of times. So, how to make children read quickly? There are a few tips that I often use for children.

First, when children are required to study, books should be kept away from their eyes, and children should form habits. There are two advantages: first, it can protect the eyes and the vision will not be damaged. Second, the farther the eyes are from the page, the wider the field of vision they see, and the more words they image on the retina. In this way, a word is no longer a word, a word or several phrases, but a chunk, a whole paragraph or even several paragraphs. As long as you get into the habit, you will be ready for future reading.

Second, children should not be asked to read aloud when studying, but should read aloud and silently. Reading aloud is another killer of slow reading. We can judge by watching TV and reading newspapers. Listening to TV for a minute is much less than watching the news broadcast in the newspaper for a minute. If you make noise while reading, your comprehension will be greatly reduced. Because the brain receives information through the unnecessary link of sound. Of course, reading aloud is good for memory, because there is an extra stimulus. But it is harmful to develop reading speed at ordinary times. If you want to improve your reading speed, don't read aloud.

Third, I often take my children to the bookstore to read books. I generally don't advise children to buy books that children especially like to read, such as jokes, cartoons and brain teasers. I suggest that children read on the spot in the bookstore. Because this kind of book has few words, but the price is not cheap. Children want to read more books in order to read their favorite books, which forces them to read faster and concentrate. This not only promotes the improvement of children's attention, but also invisibly improves their reading speed. What impressed my son most when reading this kind of books was Biography of the Seven Chivalrous Men in Lan Tu, with dozens of copies. If you buy this set home for your children, it will cost hundreds of dollars. My children just sit in the bookstore every Saturday and Sunday and read two or three books at a time, so they almost read the whole set of books. When other children bought a biography of Rainbow Cat Lan Tu and read it slowly at school, my children proudly announced at school that I had finished reading this set of books.

Fourth, take some simple and necessary training to let children develop the habit of speed reading. In order not to let their children form the habit of spelling one word or one word. I combine speed reading training with learning famous sayings, idioms and proverbs. When children read extra-curricular books again, encourage them to extract wonderful sentences from the books, such as famous sayings, idioms and proverbs. After that, I will print these beautiful sentences into small pieces of paper with the computer. Then, play games with children at home. Here's how to play it. For example, I hid the note with the words "There is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below" behind me (the font is slightly larger), and then quickly took it out from behind and shook it outside to hide it. Control the shaking time within one second, let the children have a look and tell the contents of this note immediately. I made thousands of such notes. At first, it was a four-word idiom, such as: a blessing in disguise, how to know that it is not a blessing, better late than never and so on. Later, it became five words, such as: cut the gordian knot, bite off more than one can chew and so on. , and then it becomes six words, seven words, more than seven words. Because it is a game, my son likes to do it very much. Also, because it is necessary to recognize the contents of the note immediately within one second, it is impossible for the son to read it word by word. My son must learn to see a line of words in an instant, and when he sees a lot of words, his vision will gradually broaden and he will never read one word at a time. Because he often plays this game, his son's attention is highly concentrated, and invisibly his son has learned many famous sayings and epigrams. For a while, I was busy with my work. At noon, my son lives in the Chinese teacher's house, and there are 10 students living in the Chinese teacher's house. In addition to the second-year students, there are several fourth-year students. After lunch, the Chinese teacher arranged a reading time in order not to let the children chase each other outside. One day, I went to pick up my son, and the teacher told me with surprise: "Your son's reading ability is really strong, faster than several older children in the fourth grade." Others read the same book, and your son said he had finished it. I don't believe it. I asked him to tell the contents of the book, but I didn't expect him to tell it all.