How to Teach Your Baby Math (More Gentle Revolution) [Paperback]

Glenn Doman (Author), Janet Doman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1995

This exciting book provides parents with a clear, simple daily program for teaching small children mathematics in a way that enriches mutual love and respect.

Product Details

• Paperback: 233 pages
• Publisher: Avery; 4 edition (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895295954
• ISBN-13: 978-0895295958
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,112,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The babies are eager to learn!, February 14, 2003

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Maxim Masiutin (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Teach Your Baby Math (More Gentle Revolution) (Paperback)

Initially I was skeptical about teaching my 18-month daughter math. But after reading the book, I found out that that Glenn Doman and Janet Doman have discovered the completely different method of teaching a baby math, not the same that is using in junior schools. Their method suits for a baby from zero moths old, i.e. from birth. The are three lessons a day, each lesson last fifteen seconds and give such a joy to the baby that she woke me up in the mornings asking me to teach her math. When she hears my steps when I return from my job, she runs to me to teach her math. The babies CAN and WANT to learn!

The babies are eager to learn, they want desperately to learn everything they can, as quickly as possible, but the adults are often fail to provide for the babies the adequate opportunity of learning.

Glenn Doman and Janet Doman offer funny and inexpensive way of teaching the baby math, by means of special inventory: cards with red points indicating a real quantity.

A few words from my own experience on producing the inventory: don't even imagine of cutting the cards or the points by yourself. Order the empty cards of the specified size in a nearby company, which prints business cards. Order five thousand 0.75-inch sticky red circles on a roll of ORACAL in a nearby company, which decorates the shop windows. The authors do not emphasize on ORACAL, but the process of putting the circles to the cards should be as easy as possible.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terribly Disappointed!, January 16, 2005

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J. Brady "oneblackhorse" (Falls Church, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Teach Your Baby Math (More Gentle Revolution) (Paperback)

After I read all of the great reviews on this book I thought this would be the perfect thing to help me teach my 2-year old daughter some early math skills so I rushed to buy it. I read the book completely before trying it out and a lot of what is written in the book made sense to me. I agree with the authors on all the points that they make about how babies have the capacity to learn math skills at such a young age. I went out and bought all the supplies I needed and spent the better part of a week making cutting the cards and sticking on the dots. I was eager to try and teach my 2-year old. I followed the instructions, showing my toddler the cards and announcing the number on each with an enthusiastic voice and lots of praise. For a while she was eager for the "game". However, by the end of the second week she started saying "No" when I asked if she was ready to play. The games kept getting pushed farther and farther apart by her unwillingness. The book says not to push if the child doesn't want to play, so I never did. But, the book also says to be consistent and play the "game" 3 times a day (or at least once a day). But my toddler wanted nothing to do with the math teaching at all. No amount of enthusiasm and playfullness on my part helped. One time, after she said "No" I brought out the cards anyway and she started crying. In my estimation, she was just plain sick and tired of looking at red dots every day! She was bored with it.

The book says that if this happens you should increase the speed at which you add new cards, but this didn't work at all. Also, there is no way to know whether or not your child is actually learning anything (the author's say NEVER to test a child during the first phase where they learn the numbers 1-100).

The last thing that was really horrible is all the work I spent making the cards. The authors say in the book that they now offer a pre-made card kit for sale, but then they do not tell you where you can buy it!

I had really hoped this would be a great book for me and my daughter, but it's useless and I wasted a lot of time and money on the materials... very disappointing. Maybe if instead of red dots, I used different shaped stickers or even just mixed up the colors of the dots a bit it would have helped keep her from becoming bored.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Discovery, December 17, 2001

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This review is from: How to Teach Your Baby Math (More Gentle Revolution) (Paperback)

I do not think I exagerate when I rate this discovery as one of the greatest of the last century. Infants, up to age 2-1/2 years, have the amazing ability to instantly recognize quantities (or dots). An infant can recognize the difference between 78 and 79 dots (or whatever) and point it out to you. Not only that, this amazing ability can be used to teach math. The dot quantities can be shown to teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. These children grow up with this ability to instantly do math and the instant quantities. The ability to instantly see how many cows are in a field or birds are flying together in a flock once existed in all of us; we just never had this ability exercised when we were very young. It only takes a few seconds to do an exercise so you only spend about a minute a day showing your infant or toddler. This truly is amazing and a great lifetime gift for your child.