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Leap Frog – Math Circus Streaming.
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Unlike the previous reviewers I conception this video was stout. Though it could be longer, it gives kids (mine are 4.5 and 2.5) a splendid introduction to basic math concepts: association, addition and subtraction.
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One of the problems puny children have is that they memorize numbers and can “count” but they don’t associate the numbers with an exact quantity. This video uses slight white mobile cubes called “quidgets” to instruct them that numbers `correspond’ to a sure number of objects.
My kids are elegant engrossed by this video and I am elated that I can now give my four-year-old simple hand problems and she can solve them.
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Video Outline:
–Numbers are produced: “0 to 10″.
–Numbers are associated with corresponding numbers of quidgets, coins, fingers, etc.
For example, no quidgets, then one quidget. The white box gets a number 1 which jumps onto it and stays.
Two quidgets stack vertically… the number one jumps off and the 2 jumps on and so forth.
–A song with 1 quidget, then 1 coin, then 1 finger and a 1 “digit” color worm… and so on until there are 10 quidgets, 10 coins, 10 fingers and a 10 segmented worm. The quidgets are piled vertically, and the worm grows horizontally until it is 10 units long: all numbers are shown in their worm segment.
–Then to the circus.
–Review of counting with quidgets stacking vertically.
–Using a high wire act with two swings, the quidget’s do addition and then subtraction.
Two quidgets, for example, swing across and are joined by another quidget from the other swing. The numbers 2 and 1 topple off and the number 3 sticks itself to the stack of three quidgets. The reverse is done for subtraction.
–At the raze, stacks of ten quidgets are flung into the ring until their are ten stacks of them demonstrating how we can go from 10 to 100 by ten’s.
Parents and children who loved the other Leap Frog DVDs about letters, words and reading will accept this one disappointing.
Advertised as beginning math, this one is mixed up in its focus, spending quite a bit of time on recognizing the numbers from 0 to 10 (especially zero) and relating them to “quidgets”, then rapidly jumping to addition and subtraction without sufficient explanation or introduction of the concepts. Starting with simple counting, by the raze of the 35 minutes, they’re showing us ten times tables up to one hundred.
Very young children will probably like the repetitive cowboy “numbers” song, and may even stick around for the “circus” acts and accompanying slapstick routines, but the concepts reach too fleet for this age group. Kids who already know their numbers won’t learn anything unique from the beginning of the presentation, but then again, they probably won’t learn anything from the rest of it either.
Clearly one should not query kids to learn math in 35 minutes, which makes you wonder what they were thinking when they made this one. A more sensible near would be to have different DVDs for each level, as they did in the reading series, so that they could consume more time going into the nitty-gritty, and making it fun.
This one is a speed job, and was not properly concept out for the intended audience. Definitely not a tool you should count on to introduce your kids to math.
Amanda Richards, May 4, 2006
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