<story><title>Calculus for Seven Year Olds [pdf]</title><url>http://mathman.biz/materials/Calculus%20By%20and%20For%20Young%20People%20Worksheets.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>Copyright 1991. This was probably making the rounds of homeschooling circles I hung out in.&lt;p&gt;We tend to do a sucky job of teaching math to kids. A lot of elementary school teachers are women who were encouraged to go into early education because they weren&amp;#x27;t doing so well in math and this is very much gender bias.&lt;p&gt;My ex husband wasn&amp;#x27;t good at math. No one told him he should spend his days teaching little kids because of it. He was a career soldier and he just got tutored in college (by me) for his math classes. He was just expected to work at it if it didn&amp;#x27;t come naturally and he did.&lt;p&gt;So we just culturally pass around this idea that math is scary and little kids can&amp;#x27;t learn it rather than going &amp;quot;Well, adults just need to up their game and, by god, explain it better.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;My oldest was math phobic by the time I pulled him out of school to homeschool. My one and only goal for math was to get him over his phobia.&lt;p&gt;He loves physics. I hate calculus. Calculus makes sense to him and he has read calculus books for fun.&lt;p&gt;I was good at explaining the math to him and he learned lots of solid math concepts even though he likely has dyscalculia and isn&amp;#x27;t good at crunching the numbers. But I got the concepts through to him and that&amp;#x27;s more important.&lt;p&gt;He&amp;#x27;s what gets called &amp;quot;calculator dependent&amp;quot; in some circles.</text></comment>
<story><title>Calculus for Seven Year Olds [pdf]</title><url>http://mathman.biz/materials/Calculus%20By%20and%20For%20Young%20People%20Worksheets.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>casion</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve taught 7-year olds, rich kids specifically in technology magnet program.&lt;p&gt;The pre-requisite information necessary for this would be way above their heads. Adding fractions, conceptualizing fractions to graphs, graphing functions... and that&amp;#x27;s just the first part!&lt;p&gt;Most 7-year olds can barely conceptualize fractions. First&amp;#x2F;second grade math curriculums are centered around basic multiplication, shape recognition and counting.&lt;p&gt;7-year olds aside, I don&amp;#x27;t even think most of the high-schooler freshmen I&amp;#x27;ve taught would be able to grasp this content.</text></comment>