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How to Teach Your Baby Math (More Gentle Revolution)

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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.

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.

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.

My name is Ewa Walczak(Poland).I am under impression of your book and the way of giving education to the tiny kids. There is a traditional model in my country(I was received as a fool.) I did not have enough time to do all the exercises with my daughter Alexandra. We did some steps only. But the results became very good. Alexandra(9 years old now) is very good in mathematics and she understands it as the rules of nature.More to say I have been given to my daughter all the knowledge she wants and I do not avoid any questions or matters. The teachers at school are under impression of her wide knowledge and activity.

The Doman's have an excellent tried-and-tested technique to teach beginner level mathematics to young minds. It rides on the insight that most educational institution today teach mathematics in an encoded form, i.e. using symbols such as 4,21,107 instead of an actual representation of the number itself, e.g. 2 dots, 13 dots ... Good reference for parents who are eager to give their kids a proper headstart in the lifelong learning journey. Some repetition throughout the book which tends to get a bit long-winded at times. To give you an idea ... while the book is some 200 pages long, I finished the book within an hour. I will still recommend parents to buy it for the technique taught.

When it comes to improving our children's life there are not enough stars in heaven to rate this book and the contribution Glenn Doman has made to mankind. On the surface the whole program looks like nothing but memorization. However if you understand the philosophy you understand that it is all about Quality repetitive stimulation, not memorization. The philosophy is simple and we have heard it a million times, The brain is like a muscle the more you exercise (stimulate) it the more it develops. There is one important difference however, the development of the brain is some what inversely proportional to ones age. The youngest mind (Infant mind) responds (develops) the best to stimulation. There is one other major point we need to understand. There is a difference between learning and developing the brain. Developing the brain is the establishment of the neuron connection in the brain in to the different areas of the brain, this is how your increase your IQ. Learning is the activity of studying a subject, and internalizing it, this is how you increase your wisdom/knowledge.

We all understand to become a professional athlete, we need to develop the capability of the muscles to perform the work and we need to learn the skill to perform the work. We also understand there is no way to separate the two different development areas. That is as a beginner to any sport you have to and do develop both the skill and the ability at the same time as you participate. The whole point Glenn and Janet Doman are making is one that any good coach understands, the most effective way to increase the rate of development and potential of ability is to engage in quality repetitive stimulation.

My degree is in Education, and I am a student of life and how we, and why we learn, Glenn and Janet have written several books that clearly explain why and how to increase your child's potential. The philosophy is sound and the methods are well proven. There is but one thing to consider, are you willing to develop children that are smarter then your self and give them a real chance to excel. If so read the books, understand the philosophy and consistently employee the methods. Your children will be greatly rewarded!!

Terrific and instructive book in the doman series of "How to teach..." books. The writing is clear but not concise and tends to be very repetitive. The methods are interesting and nearly irresistable to parents who value intelligence and are willing to expend the (minimal) efford required to teach. I truely enjoyed the books and am enthusiastic about the program

Doman's discovery that math can be taught to babies, so that it becomes "second nature" to them, deserves the equivalent of a Nobel Prize. I noticed that it's no accident that one of the key ingredients to helping kids to succeed with this is to MAKE IT FUN (I hope the school teachers are listening).

I believe there is no limit to the capacity of children to learn, as long as they are approached in the right way.

I'm glad Glenn and Janet made the effort to do the research and write this book. It's worth its weight in gold.

--George Stancliffe...

I studied Glenn Doman's Education Philosophy when I was dealing with Brain Injured Children. His methods worked amazingly well with them. I just had my first child and I am excited to get started with Reading, Math and Encyclopedic Knowledge. Both my Husband and I are teachers and see the value of our child knowing as much as she can when entering the school system.

Here is a Hint for making your own Math Cards - Use a Red Bingo Dabber! It is about $2 and will do as many red dots in 3/4" as you need. Get the highest quality you can as it will be the most solid. I tried them all out in the store before buying one. Boy, it was so easy and CHEAP to create the cards.

Mr. Doman talks about the amazing ability babies and small children have in learning both reading and Math. "You can teach a child anything, as long as it is presented to him in an honest and factual manner" --Glenn Doman. I have a six month old son and we have just started the "program" today. Some of his ideas are a little far-fetched and after trying to get all of our cards in today, it is recomended you be a full-time parent.

Mr. Doman motivates you to take advantage of tiny children's strong desire to learn, while you can. This book has the ability to multiply your babies intelligence!!! I can't wait until we go to the Institute for their seminar. Read this book!!!