How to Teach Your Baby Math

by Glenn Doman

Outlines a program for teaching very young children number perception and other mathematical skills, and explains why youngsters learn best at certain times or in certain situations

Hardcover

About the author

GLENN DOMAN is the founder of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential to which parents from every continent have been finding their way for more than a half of a century. He and The Institutes are famous for their pioneering work with brain-injured children and for their work in early development for well children.

In addition to dealing intimately with more than twenty thousand families over the last fifty years, he has strongly influenced millions of families through the book What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child and the creation of the groundbreaking Gentle Revolution Series of books and materials that teach parents how to teach their babies at home.

Glenn Doman has lived with, studied, or worked with children in more than one hundred nations, ranging from the most civilized to the most primitive.

He was distinguished for outstanding heroism in action during World War II and was knighted by the Brazilian government in 1966 for his services to the children of the world.

Glenn Doman is the principle lecturer for the many courses given by The Institutes for the parents of well children and brain-injured children. When he is not lecturing in Philadelphia or around the world, he is nose-to-nose with parents and children, discovering better ways to make hurt kids well and well kids more capable.



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Reviews

[Diana Sandberg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mostly filler, but the nub is great stuff. Very useful.

Review written 1982; transferred here from printed version 2020

[Missmath144 · Rating 3 out of 5]

My granddaughter lost interest after only six days. I think it's because the program relies heavily on positive, affectionate reinforcement, but the child is supposed to sit far enough away so as not to be able to touch the cards and you're supposed to flash the cards for only one second each. This went okay for the first four days, not too well on the fifth, and no interest at all on the sixth. I think that's because most of the three 10-hour days that she spends with me she is in my arms, with constant attention and affection, hence the distancing for the math became a negative reinforcement. I smiled and hugged her after each 5-second session, and told her what a good girl she was, and I was very enthusiastic about it, but as I said, it wasn't anything special compared to the constant affection she receives from me.
I used a highly modified version of How to Teach Your Baby to Read with my own kids thirty years ago, and will modify the program significantly now with my granddaughter, teaching her to read in Spanish (which is the only language I use with her), but unfortunately the math method didn't work for me.