Math Terms
What is Sorting?
It is the process separating objects into categories based on their unique characteristics.
What is direct guidance?
Focusing/disciplining an individual child with direct instructions.
This involves a child's ability with their 5 sense(sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing), gross motor skills(large body muscles), and fine motor skills(fingers and hands/ smaller muscles) with knowledge of bodily awareness in their environment.
Body, Life, Music, Nature, Number, People, Picture, Self, and Word smart.
Autonomy?
The sense of control and independence.
What is Classification?
The process of grouping objects into categories or classes.
What is Redirection?
Moving a child’s attention from one thing to another.
Cognitive Domain
This involves children's development of knowledge. It includes their memorization skills, ability to learn new information and analyze/figure situations out.
Self Acutalization?
This is the final stage in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs that has the person reaching a state of fulfillment with growth as an individual as you master all the previous needs. (It is theorized that only 1% of people reach this stage)
I-Messaging?
A tool for teaching children how to express feelings effectively and accurately.
What is Sequencing?
The process of ordering real-life objects from shortest to tallest or tallest to shortest.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
Punishing bad behavior/ removing something bad to strengthen behavior.
Social Domain
This involves a child's intrapersonal and interpersonal skills with management of emotions and ability to maintain positive relationships with others. Processes such as social interaction, self-confidence, and cooperation.
What is Id?
This is the primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives with hidden memories.
Situational Stress?
Short-term stress that occurs during a brief period of time as a result of a temporary situation.
What is Transitions?
Periods of time between scheduled activities; good opportunities for teaching new math concepts.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
Rewarding good behavior to make sure it happens again.
Moral Domain
Knowledge developments about moral concepts such as fairness, and others welfare/rights.
What is Super-Ego?
This operates as the moral conscience and source of self-criticism that will reflect morals/values taught by adults or society.
Assimilation?
A cognitive process in which we take new information and experiences and incorporate them into our pre-existing ideas or worldview.
2+2+2+10+45+50+2+20+2+2+20+2+20+20+2+2+2+20+2+20+2+20+20+2+20+20+2+2+20+50 x (10)=?
4050
What is Natural Consequences?
Consequences that happen in response to your child’s behavior without parental involvement.
What is the Montessori Method?
This is a method of education that is based on majority self-directed learning with hands-on collaborative learning.
What is Ego?
This involves the reality principle that follows your Id with socially appropriate ways. It weighs the pros and cons of an action before acting on it or abandoning that impulse. Mediator of Id desires and superego and what you present to others.
Pictorial Drawings?
Art that attempts to capture the true structure of a scene.