The Flash Halloween Costumes Kids The Flash Costume costume includes: headpiece and jumpsuit with attached boot tops.Customer Review: Our 4 and 1/2 year-old loved it!
Our 4 and 1/2 year-old loved it! Was exactly what we were looking for - he wore it almost all Christmas Day :)
Customer Review: In a Flash!
Out of the ordinary costume that my 5 y/o son loved! He was very comfortable and still wears it around the house and to bed.
Making mistakes is part of growing up and learning, but in kids' maths they are too often overlooked as a source of development for the child. Children need to be encouraged to take risks with their learning. They need to push themselves out of their comfort zone and tackle problems that they are uncertain of how to proceed with. This will give them increased confidence to tackle new concepts and will advance their education not only in maths but in general.
One indication of a child's preparedness to venture into unknown territory with confidence in maths is the appearance of their workbook. Generally, the child who is prepared to leave a mistake on the page and tackle the same problem again will be a child who is more confident in their work. This child views the attempt at the question as valid work, worth keeping. If the child has a greater awareness, he or she will understand that the process of making the mistake and then correcting it with another attempt is the key to learning in this subject.
The child who feels the need to remove the mistake and only have the perfectly correct solution in their book will have a narrower, less flexible approach to the topic. This second child will be less willing to tackle strange or difficult problems, as they view success as the completed, correct answer. Many times a child with this mindset will erase all their attempts to answer a question on a test, preferring to leave the page blank than risk having an error on it.
Several years ago I taught a particular year 7 student whose work made an impression on me. When I first collected his book, it was filled with what looked like complete nonsense. This work was done by a child from an non-English speaking background who had had very little exposure to education. While the work itself made no sense, the child had taken the numbers and symbols we had been working with in class and had attempted to use these to complete the homework task. This child had toiled away for over two pages in his exercise book making what looked like sums.
To me, that was an excellent effort. That child took a risk. He was prepared to be wrong, but took a risk and did his very best to complete the task he was given and in fact did far more work than was asked of him. That student went on to make excellent progress in math that year. By the end of the academic year he was competent with the basic operations, could handle simple fractions and equations and had memorized his 1 - 15 times tables.
Risks need to be taken by children and they need to be rewarded, regardless of the outcome. Math students need to be told frequently that since they are doing unfamiliar work they must expect to make mistakes, and that these mistakes are an essential part of their learning. If a child hears this often enough and is regularly rewarded for attempting work they are unfamiliar with, they have the opportunity to develop a positive approach to risk taking in the classroom.
Roger Vanderlely
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