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> Presumably this person has no experience with 6 year olds?

In case anyone is curious, this person has experience teaching children mathematics. For example, on his blog, we have

http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-six-year-olds/ http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-seven-year-olds-graph-colori... http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-eight-year-olds/ http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-nine-year-olds-fold-punch-cu...

The most recent post in his category "Math for Kids" is in fact teaching how to count ordinals up to omega-squared: http://jdh.hamkins.org/counting-to-infinity-poster/



> this person has experience teaching children mathematics

Just as a FYI, there are plenty of countries in Europe where many 6 year-olds are still in kindergarten not at school, as a result they most likely have not have properly started learning numbers or reading and writing.

https://www.statista.com/chart/13378/when-do-children-start-...


unless the kindergarten is playfully toying with numbers already, usually with no obligation but as an enrichment for those kids who love such activities.


Do we have statistics on how many pupils end up hating/loving math after that ?




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