making math meaningful Author:david quine Your children will learn to reason. — Your children will learn the math facts. — Your children will learn to solve word problems. — Your children will really understand math ideas. — Your children will finally have fun doing math! — The math instruction of children should proceed on two lines. The young child should begin to learn the basic facts and... more » to understand math concepts, and his understanding should be well in advance of his skill to compute. the scale should be tipped in favor of a concrete understanding of math concepts so that he can think mathematically.« less