About Maria Batkovic Expertise I can answer any question concerning primary grade (K-3rd) education from the perspective of the student, parent or teacher. My speciality was designing highly creative ways to teach all levels of reading, writing, spelling and math (addition, subtraction, multiplication and fractions). In the last few years, I also became very adept at dealing with students with learning disabilities integrated into mainstream classrooms.
Experience I taught 2nd grade for more than 25 years in Catholic schools in New York City and Northern California.
Expert: Maria Batkovic Date: 1/15/2008 Subject: 4 year old son
Question Hi, my 4 year old son (birthday was Nov. 11) loves his new V-Smile computer that hooks up to our t.v. I noticed last night that he is a whiz at doing math on the computer -- e.g. 7 - __ = 3 -- he would get these kind of problems and answered them in seconds. He must have answered more than 20 -- and didn't get one wrong. I know he doesn't know math because when I asked him the problem - he stated the wrong answer. Can you explain this type of visual capability to me. Thank you so much.
Answer Hello Mary-Anne,
I'm sorry but I am unfamiliar with that program. Usually,on preschool math programs there are picture sets. This enables the child to visually see the number ....for example a set of 7 fish of which 4 swim away leaving how many? The next time your son is working on this math program follow along with him to see how the problem is presented. Have fun together.
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