Comments on: Why It’s Important to Talk Math With Kids https://www.isegoria.net/2012/04/why-its-important-to-talk-math-with-kids/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:42:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Anon https://www.isegoria.net/2012/04/why-its-important-to-talk-math-with-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-484734 Anon Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:01:17 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=28603#comment-484734 This would be an interesting experiment to try. Take one thousand kids from different classes, backgrounds, etc. and then instruct their parents in the art of ‘math talk’. Ten years later, those kids will be better at math, right?

Well, I did ‘math talk’ all the time with my son; he just scored a 36 on the ACT math portion (really! Yes, we’re all proud of our kids…). Hey, it worked for my kid!

On the other hand…

Maybe the parents who created the practice of ‘math talk’ are parents who have the right genes for math. I had a 99th percentile math SAT score back in the day, and not only is my wife very bright, her mother taught statistics at a well-known college and her father was a professor of economics.

I really wonder if this isn’t one of those fallacies of the form “kids who are good at X spend a lot of time doing Y… If we could get all kids to do Y, they’d all be good at X!”

]]> By: Anomaly UK https://www.isegoria.net/2012/04/why-its-important-to-talk-math-with-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-482309 Anomaly UK Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:38:47 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=28603#comment-482309 Also, carving control towers and headphones out of wood will cause the cargo to arrive again.

]]> By: Wobbly https://www.isegoria.net/2012/04/why-its-important-to-talk-math-with-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-482283 Wobbly Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:59:17 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=28603#comment-482283 Just don’t let them play with yellow paint. Getting yellow fingers is a key predictor of lung cancer.

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