Valentina Rozputnyaya
Master class for teachers “Dyenesha Blocks”
Master Class
SUBJECT: “Work system for using Dienesha blocks for the development of logical and mathematical concepts in children preschool age»
Master teacher: Rozputnyaya Valentina Alexandrovna
Location:G. Kondopoga MDOU No. 20 "Spikelet" building 9
Target: increase the level of competence teachers by mastering the technology of using games with Dienesh blocks in the formation of thinking skills of preschool children.
Tasks:
1. Promote among teachers knowledge of use Dienesha blocks. Introduce basic application techniques Dienesha blocks.
2. Promote learning teachers technology for using games with Dienesh blocks in different age groups.
3. Develop constructive pedagogical abilities.
Equipment and materials: presentation, sets Dienesha blocks, story toys, methodological literature, hoops, exhibition of albums and games with Dienesh blocks.
Dear Colleagues! Today I invite you to get acquainted with the technology of using games with Dienesh blocks.
Using logic games blocks we can collectively form all the important mental development thinking skills and prepare children’s thinking for mastering mathematics.
Because they contribute to the development of such mental operations as classification, grouping objects by properties, eliminating unnecessary things, analysis and synthesis, children learn to guess, prove their answers, remember material faster, are more confident in their abilities, adapt more easily to a new environment, and are better prepared for school.
The creator of logical blocks is Zoltan Dienes, world-famous Hungarian professor, mathematician, psychology specialist, creator of a progressive proprietary method of teaching children - "new mathematics".
Didactic set "Brain teaser blocks» consists of 48 volumetric figures. Each figure is characterized by four properties. Let's remember what (name these properties)- color, shape, size and thickness.
Right.
a) four forms (circle, triangle, square, rectangle); why is there no green?
b) three colors (red, blue, yellow);
c) two sizes (big small);
d) two types of thickness (thick, thin).
There is not a single identical figure in the set.
Also in logic games blocks cards with property symbols are used. Properties are conventionally indicated on the cards blocks(color, shape, size, thickness) (Show block of this color, this form is a presentation)
And cards with denial of properties, pay attention to the crossed out cards, For example: not red. The use of such cards allows children to develop the ability to model properties, the ability to encode and decode information about them.
In addition to volumetric blocks, in my work I use a set of flat figures.
Detailed application technology blocks you can meet, having studied such literature as.
Logic and mathematics for preschoolers. E. A. Nosova, R. L. Nepomnyashchaya. The book describes the possibilities of using Dienesha blocks and Cuisenaire sticks for children 2-6 years old. A description of a variety of games is provided.
let's play: math games for children 5-6 years old. Edited by A. A. Stolyar The book will help to form the first elementary skills in children 5-6 years old. mathematical representations and a certain logical structure of thinking. It includes 59 logical and mathematical games with numerous variants of conditions and descriptions of their implementation.
Games and exercises with logic blocks you can offer it to children in classes and during free hours, both in kindergarten and at home. If you supplement them with other educational games and game tasks, "satiate" new game tasks, actions, plots, roles, etc., then this will only help children overcome intellectual difficulties.
There are several groups of games with Dienesh blocks.
1 group of games. These are games for identifying and abstracting properties.
They develop the ability to identify from one to four properties in objects, abstract one from the other, and name them. With their help, children will get their first ideas about replacing properties signs-symbols, will master the ability to strictly follow the rules when performing actions, and will come closer to understanding that breaking the rules does not allow you to get the right result.
("Find the treasure", "Highway", "Unusual Figures" and etc)
2nd group of games. Classification, generalization, comparison.
They help develop children's skills to classify, generalize and compare objects according to one, two, three or four properties. First, kids master the ability to classify and generalize according to given properties, and then - according to independently identified ones ( “Where is whose garage?”, "The houses settled"). ("Track", "Find a Pair", "Catch a Three", "Domino").
3 group of games. Logical actions and operations.
These games and exercises are intended mainly for children of older preschool age. They will help children develop the ability to divide sets into classes according to compatible properties, and develop the ability to perform logical operations "Not", "And", "or", the ability to use these operations to construct correct statements, encode and decode information about the properties of objects. As a result, the child will be able to reason freely, justify the legality or error of his actions ( "Help the figures get out of the forest", "Build a house", "Divide blocks» ).
The presented games and exercises, with some exceptions, are given in three versions. Let's look at these options using the example of a game "Highway", another name for this game is "Build a path". In this game, children build a path, the rules of construction are written in the table. The arrow shows which figure goes after which, you can start with any figure. Games and exercises of the first option (I) develop in children the ability to operate with one property. Game highway 1
Using games and exercises of the second option (II) the ability to operate with two properties at once develops. Game highway 2
Games and exercises of the third option (III) form the ability to operate with three properties at once. Game highway 3
Showing game options using an example game "Highway".
Before you start working with children, you should establish what rung of the intellectual ladder each child is on. If a child easily and accurately copes with tasks at a certain level, this is a signal that he should be offered games and exercises of the next difficulty level. However, transferring the child to subsequent game exercises is possible only if he has grown from the previous ones, i.e. when they are not difficult for him. If you keep children at a certain level or give them more complex games and exercises prematurely, then interest in the activities will disappear. Children are drawn to mental tasks when they are difficult for them, but doable.
In our kindergarten we work with blocks has been conducted for 20 years in all age groups, a system of classes using Logical blocks.
Junior preschool age
Since logical blocks represent standards of shapes - geometric figures (circle, square, equilateral triangle, rectangle, they can be widely used starting from early age. Children get acquainted with blocks V various types activities. In the process of manipulating children install blocks what they have different shape, color and size.
In order to more effectively familiarize children with the properties of logical blocks you can offer them the following tasks:
find the same shapes as this one by color (by shape, by size);
find shapes different from this one by shape (by size, by color);
find the blue shapes (triangular, red, square, large)
tell me what color this figure is (by shape, by size). (play)
After such an independent acquaintance with blocks You can move on to games and exercises.
In the first younger group children operate with one property, at the beginning of the year it is color or size, and at the end of the year we add shape. We use games to group objects, identify and abstract properties.
In the second younger group, children begin to operate with two properties at the same time and divide sets into classes based on one property, using a logical operation "Not" (all round, all not round).
Middle and senior preschool age.
IN middle group children operate with two, and at the end of the year three, properties simultaneously. The set is divided according to two compatible properties.
In older preschool age, games become more emotional and intense, children show elements of creativity and operate with three or four properties using logical operations "Not", "And", "or".
And now I want to introduce you to one of the games called "Divide blocks» . And although this game is intended mainly for children of senior preschool age, with regular lessons with blocks, we can play it with the children of the second youngest group.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that
I want to attract your attention,
Mathematics is an exact science, therefore, following the methodology for conducting logical-mathematical games, I am based on the stages of activity
Stages: 1-plot (commencement,
the second stage is the development of the plot, during which children become active participants:
Master, transform, change information about the properties, relationships, dependencies of objects, shapes, quantities, numbers;
Master the system of cognitive actions (ways of knowledge): examine objects, abstract, compare, group and classify;
They generalize, draw conclusions, predict the development of the situation, schematize, use signs and symbolic substitutions.
3- summing up
Analysis life situation, similar to that which took place during the logical-mathematical game;
Focusing children's attention on the most striking event of the logical-mathematical game (plot, actions);
Creating an imaginary situation based on a logical-mathematical game.
14 SLIDE Game "Divide blocks-1»
Target: develop the ability to split a set of one property into two subsets, perform a logical operation "Not".
For this game we need blocks and two toys(bunny and bear).
Let's imagine that you are children. I ask five people to come out.
Guys, the Bunny and the little bear had a fight; they just couldn’t divide the candy. Let's help them and divide the candies so that the bunny gets all the red ones.
What kind of candy does the bunny have? (all red) What about the bear? NOT…
Next time we can share blocks according to shape.
When will children learn to divide? blocks between toys, let's play this game with a hoop.
For example, blocks are flowers, and the hoop is a vase, we put some flowers in the vase, and lay others around.
Please note that we have two places: inside the hoop and behind the hoop.
Target: develop the ability to split a set into two compatible ones, perform a logical operation "Not", "And", "or".
And again we offer to help toys. Let's treat the bunny and the bear with pies. Little bear loves "round" pies, and the bunny - "yellow".
At this stage, it is convenient to use cards indicating the specified properties.
During the game, children find out that there are candies that suit both the bear and the bunny (we put them in a box between the toys, and there are also candies that do not suit anyone (put them in a bucket to the side).
During the game, the candies are constantly moved from one place to another until the children find the correct solution.
I suggest you play and share the candies. Again I invite five people.
After all the candies have been divided,
What kind of candy does the bear cub have? (round not yellow) At the bunny's? (yellow ones are not round) What are the common ones? (round and yellow) Which ones didn’t hit anyone? (not round and not yellow).
If children cannot answer these questions in the first games, do not try to answer them for them. They will do it themselves in the next games.
You can enter a rule: if someone notices a mistake, says "stop" and corrects it. This increases attention and develops mutual control.
First you need to find out how many places you got (four); you can invite the child to jump to any place and name it or place a toy (1st place - inside all hoops; 2nd place - inside red, but outside blue; 3rd place - inside blue, but outside red; 4th place is outside the hoops).
Then we put on the hoops and blocks images and offer game tasks (flowers - flower beds, fish - aquariums, feeder birds and etc.).
A game "Divide Blocks – 3»
Target: develop the ability to split a set into three compatible properties, perform a logical operation "Not", "And", "or", evidence of thinking.
Now we take three toys (wolf, hare, fox) and we will divide between them blocks for building houses.
To begin with, let's designate places for blocks: 1- suitable for all toys, 2- wolf and hare, 3- hare and fox, 4- fox and wolf, 5- not suitable for anyone.
Now let's divide blocks like this so that the wolf's are all round, the hare's are all big, and the fox's are all blue. To make it easier to remember the rule, we will place property cards next to the toys.
What figures were common to all toys? (round big blue ones) Which figures did only the wolf have? (round, not big, not blue) Only the hare? (large, not round, not blue) Only the fox (blue not big not round) What shapes are common to a wolf and a hare? (large round ones not blue) For the wolf and the fox? (round blue ones are not big) For the hare and fox? (big blue ones are not round) Which figures didn’t suit anyone? (small (not big) not round, not blue).
If a child, characterizing a group, names only two of the three properties, we draw his attention to other groups blocks, which have the specified properties; then we ask him to name the group again, but so that it cannot be confused with any other.
When repeating the exercise, the division rule children call blocks. Each time a different combination of properties is indicated - partition bases blocks.
For example, divide the figures so that the wolf has all thin ones, the hare - all triangular, the fox - all small, or the wolf - all large, the hare - all blue, the fox - all thick; the wolf's are all yellow, the fox's are all red, the hare's are all square, etc.
If as a result of unfolding blocks some places(boxes) turn out to be empty, we encourage children to find out and tell why this happened, while doing everything we can to stimulate demonstrative thinking. (Why did these or those figures end up here? Why is this or another place without figures? Why can’t these or those figures be put together with others)
Further exercises can be carried out as "games with three hoops".
First, we invite the children to put a toy or jump on any of the places in the hoops and name where it is located: 1st - inside all three hoops, 2nd - inside the yellow and red, but outside the blue hoop, 3rd - inside the red and blue, but outside the yellow hoop, 4th - inside the yellow and blue, but outside the red hoop, 5th - inside the yellow hoop, but outside the red and blue hoop, 6th - inside the red, but outside the yellow and blue hoop, 7th - inside the blue, but outside the yellow and red hoop, 8th - outside all hoops .
Then the children solve various game problems proposed adults: plant the front garden with flowers, lay out cakes on festive table, make a mosaic, etc. Partition rules they offer blocks themselves. For example, put the cakes on dishes so that all the red cakes are on the red dish, all the triangular ones are on the blue one, all the thick cakes are on the yellow one, or make a mosaic so that all the round pieces of glass are in the red window, all the big ones are in the blue window, in yellow - all yellow, etc.
As a result of using Games with Dienesh blocks preschoolers develop logical thinking: ability to analyze, draw conclusions, generalize, compare, classify and at the completion stage preschool education Children not only have basic understanding of mathematics, but also model computer science concepts.
Applying this remedy for several years, I would like to note that during games with Dienesh blocks Children develop a strong interest in mathematical games and mental activity in general. Children become more active, proactive and independent in the learning process.
Many years of work experience allows us to talk about high achievements in the training of graduates of our kindergarten for school (diagram)
Reflection
Our meeting has come to an end. So that I can evaluate my work, I propose to provide feedback. Try to answer these questions.
How has your initial knowledge changed?
What was useful? What new have you learned? Will it be useful to you at work? Was this familiar to you? Does the initial knowledge correspond to the new ones? What impression did you get on master class? Will you use it at work? What remains unclear? What can really be applied?
Zoltan Gyenes- this is famous Hungarian mathematician, psychologist and teacher, which changed the standard notion that mathematics is an uninteresting science and far from creative. Dienesh's technique helps children preschool and older age game form master various mathematical concepts, as well as develop psychological processes important for children.
Zoltan Gyenes, based on personal rich teaching experience and research results in the field of psychology, developed a theory of six stages of learning mathematics and created effective visual materials in the form of logic blocks and game aids. The Dienesh system helps parents and teachers actively develop the intellectual and creative inclinations of children.
Author's theory of six stages of learning mathematical concepts
Life Zoltan Dienes has always been closely connected with teaching activities and in-depth study of mathematics. The teacher sought develop a methodology which would help children of all ages learning mathematics is easy and interesting. Based on practical experience and knowledge of developmental psychology, Dienesh created his own program for studying mathematics by children of various age categories, which became the foundation of his system. Teacher recommends in the author's work, parents and teachers can use various logic games
, developing teaching aids and exciting math problems. These pedagogical tools are necessary to stimulate children’s interest in mathematics classes.
Zoltan Gyenes developed and tested it in practice theory about the six stages of learning mathematics. The author of the system called the first stage of mathematical knowledge a free game. Its essence lies in the fact that a child, receiving any task from a teacher, strives to instantly solve it through trial and error, resorting to a chaotic search of options. This stage introduces the baby to the task that he needs to successfully complete. From this moment the child’s learning stage begins.
After numerous attempts to solve the problem, it is carried out smooth transition child on second stage called the rules of the game. Learning the rules for Zoltan Dienes is an important teaching moment, since the baby will not be able to knowledge of the rules of the game to solve supplied tasks from the beginning to the end. The rules contain the most important information for the child, which the teacher strives to convey to him.
At the third stage is happening comparison process. After the adults and the child have used several mathematical games for work, the stage of comparing the content of these games begins. The author of the methodology calls on parents and teachers to teach children to play games that are characterized by similar rules, but use different didactic material. For example, you can play one problem on blocks, then on geometric shapes, buttons, or carving out hares. As a result, the child must come to the correct algorithm for his own actions, regardless of what he is currently playing with. This stage develops abstract thinking in kids.
Fourth stage helps the child perceive during games abstract meaning of numbers. Zoltan Dienes recommends using a variety of diagrams, game cards and tables to develop visual visualization.
At the fifth stage baby comes to understanding that a series of two and more steps leads to one result.
The author of the system called this stage symbolic. To describe game cards you must use special language in the form of various symbols. The child creates his own symbolic systems during play.
The final stage is longer than all the above stages. At the sixth stage are offered various options descriptions of game cards, specific rules are defined that allow come to necessary logical conclusions. The child and the teacher explore the content of the concepts of axiom and theorem, and also learn the rules for the transition from axioms to theorems.
Many adults believe that the theory of learning mathematical concepts is incomprehensible and difficult for a child to understand. Zoltan Dienes created this theory for children from three to eight years old, taking into account their physiological and age characteristics. In this regard, it is perceived by children in practical classes with great interest and ease.
The main task of adults is to be patient, understand the features of the technique, and also learn to use visual aids.
As a result, children will be able to solve math problems and exercises of an increased level of complexity easily and quickly.
Games with logic blocks
Dienesha Zoltan Dienes developed logic blocks, allowing you to teach kids the basics of mathematics in an easy playful way. This textbook is recommended for use from the age of three. Logic blocks introduce children to different colors, the concept of shape and size. By playing with Dienesh blocks, the baby actively develops logic, attention, imagination, and memory and other important psychological processes. In the course of working with the author's didactic material, children develop skills in performing various objective actions, develop speech, the ability to analyze, classify, compare, generalize the information received, and also reveal their creative abilities.
Included in the set The game includes 48 logic blocks, which differ in shape, color, thickness and size. Dienesh blocks are presented in the form of basic geometric shapes: circle, rectangle, square, triangle, decorated in yellow, red and blue colors. Geometric shapes are made in large and small size, as well as in the form of thin and thick figures. It is important that there are no geometric shapes with the same parameters in the set.
Before you start playing with blocks Zoltan Gyenes advises parents to introduce the baby in advance with this teaching aid. Lay out the set in front of your baby and give him complete freedom of action. He can sort them out, touch them, hold them in his hands, or even play with them. After the adaptation period, invite your child to complete small tasks. For example, ask your child to sort only blue shapes from the material presented or to distribute the shapes by size and thickness.
Such tasks introduce the child to basic mathematical concepts.
Zoltan Gyenes has developed many block-based math games. So attached to the didactic set detailed instructions, on the pages of which the essence of the author’s work and options for exercises and games are described. Let's take a closer look at some of them:
Games with hoops in the Dienesh system
Zoltan Gyenes developed logic games with hoops that are excellent develop children's ability to think logically and navigate in space. Before the game, explain to your child the basic terminology - “inside” and “outside” the hoop.
For this purpose, parents use two standard hoops that differ in color, for example, purple and green, and place them on any hard surface. Next, the following aspects are explained to the baby:
- what part of the surface is located inside the two hoops;
- inside the purple hoop but outside the green one;
- inside a green but outside a purple hoop;
- outside of both hoops.
Let's take a closer look at the contents of some games..
To play with one hoop, you need to prepare logic blocks and a hoop. Next, invite your baby to place only blocks inside the hoop. yellow color, and place the remaining blocks outside the hoop. To consolidate information, you can ask the following questions:
- What material is inside the hoop? (Yellow).
- What blocks are located outside the hoop? (Not yellow).
During the game, give your child the opportunity to independently choose the main color of the logic blocks.
To play with two hoops, prepare logic blocks and hoops that are colored purple and blue. Place the hoops on a hard surface so that they have a common part after crossing. Next, invite the child to stand in different zones hoop, while saying the words: inside and outside the hoop. For example, stand inside the purple hoop but outside the blue hoop, or stand inside both hoops.
Then the child places logic blocks inside two hoops. For example, inside the purple hoop you need to place all the blue blocks, and inside the yellow hoop you need to place all the blocks round shape. It should be noted that in this game blocks are determined by two main characteristics: color and shape.
The game with three hoops is more difficult. In this game, kids sort blocks according to three criteria. To play, you need to arrange the hoops so that you get eight areas. Next, parents and the baby name these areas in relation to the hoops, which differ in color. For example, inside a green and red hoop, but outside a purple hoop, or inside three hoops. After familiarizing yourself with the areas, adults invite the child to place objects in the hoops: place blocks inside the red hoop square shape, inside the hoop purple- blocks big size, and inside the green one there are yellow blocks. To reinforce and repeat the material, ask your child additional questions about the placement of the material inside the hoops.
Games with hoops help kids develop attention, memory, creative thinking, and also teach synthesis and analysis operations.
Games with logical figures by Dienesh
Based on the Dienesh system, many manuals have been developed for various age categories. Dienesh's logic games can be played by both three-year-old toddlers and first-graders. The “Let's Play Together” set includes flat logical figures that replicate Dienesh blocks, and special cards with property symbols. Dienesh's logical figures introduce kids to basic geometric shapes and sizes. In a light playful form, children learn to encode and decode received information, carry out analysis and synthesis, and children also develop important psychological processes and creative thinking. With the help of symbol cards, children master the skills of using mathematical symbols and learn the symbol system.
Presented today for parents and educators a large number of variants of games with Dienesh figures and symbols. You can also think of your own game options that will take into account everyone individual characteristics your child. Let's look at several games with cards with symbols and logical figures.
Game “Let's decorate the Christmas tree with beads” teaches ordinal counting, instills the ability to understand patterns, and also develops the child’s abstract thinking.
To work, you need to prepare an image of a Christmas tree, logical figures and cards with symbols. The goal of the game is to decorate the Christmas tree with five rows of beads.
Each row has three beads. The number on the card indicates serial number threads You need to decorate the Christmas tree from top to bottom. According to the scheme, you need to decorate the first row with beads. For example, a large blue circle, a small blue triangle and a large blue square. By analogy we place the remaining beads. In this case, the shaded circle indicates the location of the bead on the thread.
Game "Shop" develops in children the ability to reason, argue and prove their own choices.
During the game you will need logical figures and cards with pictures. various items. The child imagines that he is coming to a children's toy store. To purchase goods, special money is used - logical figures. You are allowed to purchase only one product per bill. The purchasing rules are that you can buy a toy that contains only one property of a logical figure. Parents can make it more difficult for their child to choose a toy. For example, when buying a toy, consider two properties of a logical figure.
Game "Artists" teaches kids to compare the properties of objects and develops their aesthetic abilities. For the game, prepare logical figures, special sketches of paintings and additional details to decorate the painting. The child must draw a picture from the sketch. Parents and their baby choose a sketch, background paper, necessary details and logical figures to the picture. During the work process, the child must take into account many features in order to draw the picture correctly. For example, if the part is painted, then you need to use a three-dimensional figure. The outline of the part indicates the use of a flat figure. When the picture is completely composed, you need to come up with its name and tell what is depicted on it.
Advantages of the Dienes system
The Dienesh system is not as well known among parents as, for example, the Nikitin methods or games. This system and its multifunctional didactic material will immediately appeal to the child, regardless of his level of training and age. Logic blocks will help develop Various types thinking in the baby will reveal his potential for solving exercises and tasks. If you use Dienesh figures or blocks for activities with your baby every day, your baby will develop RAM and the ability to characterize the properties of any object.
In an easy game format, the child studies the parameters of objects and geometric shapes. Kids learn to compare, analyze information, accept necessary solutions, create mathematical models, logical series and chains.
At the same time, games with Dienesh blocks have an exciting plot, interesting solutions assigned tasks. The Dienesh system is recognized as effective and humane, promoting the development of the intellectual, aesthetic, and creative abilities of children.
Dienes Blocks – Benefits of Game-Based Learning
Dienesh's system clearly demonstrates that even babies, with the right approach, quickly learn to analyze and summarize information and perform logical operations. Of course, learning should take place in the form of a game that combines both entertainment and learning.
Games that use Dienesh blocks help to use all the practically inexhaustible creative potential of the child, develop his speech, stimulating him to build complex sentences using conjunctions and semantic and formative particles.
Dienesh's logic blocks teach you little man designate various properties of an object, see the difference and classify a number of objects according to external signs, highlight the main properties, etc. As the game becomes more complex, a transition occurs to the basics of computer science; concepts such as coding, algorithms, logical operations and inferences are taught in a simple form.
Dienesh blocks - cubes and figures help parents improve their child's creative and intellectual abilities in the form of an exciting game. Pedagogical diagnostics confirmed that the Dienesh system makes it possible to master mathematical concepts from simple to more complex in a playful way, and to develop psychological processes that are important for children.
Dienesh Method – learning mathematics in six stages
Depending on the age of the child, Dienesh's method offers six successive stages of learning mathematics - games begin with the simplest concepts and gradually become more complex.
Many adults are scared and think that this is difficult for a child, but any experienced teacher will confirm that children think very well in abstractions and what sometimes seems difficult for adults to perceive, the child easily and quickly learns.
It is only necessary not to overload it, but to move and work gradually in steps - from simple to complex. As a result of the game, the child learns to solve quite complex mathematical problems.
Dienesh's logic blocks - how to work with them to make games interesting
Dienesh's logic blocks consist of 48 geometric shapes, none of which are identical in shape, color, size and thickness. The kit comes with a methodological manual, which you should definitely read before you start playing. The most important thing is that in addition to the advice, do not forget to use your own imagination, do everything to make the games captivate the children and please them, only then will you and your child achieve success.
Start playing Dienesh block games for the little ones with the simplest ones, using the concept of “how it is.” For example, offer to find all the figures that are the same in color (all blue triangles), or in shape - collect triangles different colors or sizes, etc.
Then complicate the games - take any figure and offer to choose different ones for it, “not like this” - find a circle, square, rectangle for a triangle.
Complicate the games by setting more difficult tasks - building variants of chains of blocks, alternating different and identical conditions. Teach your child to build analogies - lay out one row of 5-6 figures and offer to create a second one, but with different characteristics, for example, the shapes are the same, but the color or size is different.
Games to develop the ability to conduct analysis are analogous to dominoes, when several people play and lay out a chain, picking up the corresponding figures at the ends, but of a different color or size. Offer to divide the figures according to their properties between the participants in the game, and these could be dolls, bears, hares, etc.
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As you can see, there are a lot of options, gradually you will start to come up with something else to diversify the tasks and make them interesting.
Most importantly, monitor your baby’s mood, and under no circumstances force him to work if he is tired and can no longer concentrate. Games should be interesting to him, and to interest him, use them as a reward for something, for example: “Here, eat the porridge, only then let’s go play and take the hare with us.”
By the way, according to many reviews, games with Dienesh blocks are also interesting for adults, they teach them how to improve - after all, it’s not too late to do this at any age.
Most early development methods give children only general ideas about mathematics that are limited to skill oral counting and solving simple problems and examples. As a result, the child gets the impression that mathematics is a boring activity, far from creativity and the opportunity to show imagination. However, your child will probably look at mathematics “with different eyes” if you turn to Zoltan Dienes’ method for help.
Majority early development techniques gives children only a general understanding of mathematics, which is limited to the skill of mental calculation and solving simple problems and examples. As a result, the child gets the impression that mathematics is a boring activity, far from creativity and the opportunity to show imagination. However, your child will probably look at mathematics with “different eyes” if you turn to the Zoltan Dienes method for help, which, unfortunately, is not as popular in our country as the Montessori method or the Waldorf system.
Let us immediately note that Dienesh’s method helps children not only master various mathematical concepts in an easy and interesting playful way, but also develop important psychological processes necessary for full and comprehensive development. Therefore, this technique can also be used as independent program learning and how additional element classes.
A few words about Zoltan Gyenes
Zoltan Pál Dienes has been interested in mathematics since childhood, so there is nothing strange in the fact that he decided to devote his entire life to the “queen of the exact sciences,” as well as its popularization not only in his native Hungary, but throughout the world. Already at the age of 23, Zoltan received a doctorate in mathematics, but did not rest on this and continued his education. In order to understand the mental processes involved in solving mathematical problems, he received an additional degree in psychology.
For most of his professional career, Dienes studied psycho-mathematics (for more than 10 years he headed the Center for the Study of Psycho-Mathematics at the University of Sherbrooke). Based on his own practical experience and the results of numerous studies, he developed a unique author’s mathematics program, accessible to children of all age groups.
Zoltán Dieneš's methodology is based on various logic games, exciting mathematical tasks and educational teaching aids aimed at stimulating children's interest in mathematics, as well as the development of combinatorics, logical thinking, analytical abilities, speech, memory and attention.
Features of the Dienesh system
Zoltan Dienes's method includes six interconnected stages of studying mathematics, which take into account psychological aspects solving mathematical problems.
First stage is a free game in which children try to solve an unfamiliar problem by trial and error, trying out different solutions.
Second stage– studying the rules of the game, with the help of which the necessary mathematical information is “conveyed” to children.
Third stage– a comparison that allows you to diversify games with a similar rule structure various materials, and thereby come to the understanding that changing the material does not change the essence of the game.
Fourth stage– familiarization with the content of numbers, thanks to which the child begins to understand the essence of the game and the common component of all mathematical games.
Fifth stage– symbolic, which includes the description of game cards using symbols, for which the child can come up with his own symbolic systems.
Sixth stage– formalization, consists of considering several options for describing game cards, as a result of which the child understands that the initial description can be an axiom, and his own conclusions can be a theorem.
We emphasize that Dienesh’s method completely excludes solving mathematical problems in notebooks or studying mathematical rules in boring textbooks. All activities are funny Games, songs and dances, during which children easily and quickly acquire mathematical knowledge and skills, and also get their first ideas about such complex mathematical concepts as algorithms, logical operation and information coding. At the same time, children, most often, do not even realize how complex concepts they are mastering in the course of exciting activities on program of "new mathematics" by Zoltan Dienes.
How are classes conducted according to the Dienesh system?
Classes using the Dienesh method include:
- games with the so-called Dienesh blocks, among which there are tasks for children of various age categories. For example, for children younger age(about 3 years old) the game “this way - not that way” is ideal (figures are laid out in front of the child different forms, colors and sizes, among which he needs to find “like or not like” figures, in accordance with the adult example shown). For older children, you can choose a game of translator, during which you need not only to find this or not such a figure, but also to explain how one figure differs from another.
- games with hoops - allow you to master and consolidate spatial orientation skills. To do this, parents place two (or more) hoops on the floor different color so that they intersect (like the Olympic rings). The child needs to place a figurine of a given format inside the blue... outside the red... outside the blue and red hoop. The more hoops, the more task options there can be.
- the fabulous country of Ruritania - the mischievous twins Alice and Bruce live there, with whom children have the opportunity to take part in fascinating stories and plunge into the world of geometry and algebra.
During the lessons, kids study geometric shapes and parameters of objects in a light playful way, acquire the skills of comparing and analyzing diverse information, create mathematical models, logical chains and series, and also learn to make the necessary decisions.
Disadvantages of the Dienes system
Strange as it may seem, specialists have no shortcomings in Dienes system not found. However, studying the reviews of parents who are already engaged in this system made it possible to identify such shortcomings as:
- Limited color variety in Dienes blocks;
- For older guys who decide more complex tasks, one set of Dienesh blocks is sometimes not enough;
- The concept of “thickness” is incorrect, as a result of which it is sometimes difficult to explain to a child, for example, why a square is always flat;
- In Russia it is quite difficult to find albums for classes using the Dienesh system.
Most recently, our family became acquainted with a wonderful educational and gaming aid - Dienesh logical blocks. The game exceeded all our wildest expectations. For me and my four-year-old daughter Anya, the game became a real guide to the world of logic and mathematics.
Usually in the evening I often tell Anya:
- Let's play wizard. I guess a figure, show miracle cards with its properties, and you guess.
- Let's. Only then will I make a wish. - Anya answers.
So why did Dienesh's logic blocks become one of our favorite games? Let's figure it out.
The game is a set of 48 logical blocks that differ in four properties:
- Shape - round, square, triangular, rectangular.
- Colors: red, yellow, blue.
- Sizes - large and small.
- Thickness - thick and thin.
The main goal of the game is to teach the preschooler solve logic problems to be divided by properties.
Along with the game we purchased a wonderful set of manuals for playing with Dienesh blocks. Benefits are designed for ages 2 to 8 years. They provide invaluable assistance when playing with a child, making the game interesting, story-driven and vibrant.
So, let's start the game.
Games with Dienesha blocks
Dienesha blocks for the little ones (junior group)
Game 1. We consider and remember the main geometric figures. We build fairy-tale characters from figures.
Of course, you can simply show the figure and say: “Look, Anya, this is a circle, and this is a square...”. But remembering such information will be difficult and uninteresting for the child. How to make this process more productive and fun, how to turn learning into a game? They come to the rescue aids for games with Dienesh blocks for the little ones.
In them, the child is asked to create a fairy-tale character from geometric shapes. In essence, to play a real game.
- Anya, just look who is coming to us. The hedgehog was returning home along a winding path. He carried the luggage on his back, happy and funny. Oh, look at the thorns on his back. What figure do they resemble?
“They look like triangles,” Anya answers.
- Well done! The spines are like real triangles. Let's give the hedgehog real spines, sharp, sharp ones. Let's take our triangles and put them instead of thorns. Let's just be careful. The hedgehog has large and small spines, you and I will take large and small triangles.
- It turned out great!
Or this is the story...
- Anya, look what a cute crow and little raven flew to us today. Karrr! - the crow screams, - karrr! I'm leaving for the market! Little crows, don't fight! And wait for me in the nest!
- Anya, let’s guess some fun riddles today? Listen carefully. My first question is simple: what will break through the thick fog? Whose magical rays illuminate the path in the night? There are two pairs of them on the car. Did you guess it? This is... (headlights).
These are the simplest games with logic blocks of Dienesh. You can play them from the age of two.
For games of this type, I found the following manuals useful:
- Dienesh blocks for kids “Little Logics”
- Dienesh blocks for kids “Little Logics 2”
- Dienesha blocks for the little ones (2-3 years old)
- Dienesha blocks for the little ones 2 (2-4 years)
At first we played games of this type with Anya for a very long time. Dienesh's blocks, of course, were indispensable assistants in every game. With the help of these games, Anya perfectly learned all the figures, fell in love with them, and learned to recognize them.
Games with Dienesha blocks for the middle group
Game 2. We guess geometric shapes using signs and symbols. We “disenchant” fairy-tale characters.
Then we started playing more complex and serious games with Dienesh's logic blocks. I am absolutely delighted with these games! These are games that allow you to develop logical thinking child.
So, we began to gradually introduce signs-symbols into the game, with the help of which you can guess geometric shapes.
Anya became acquainted with all the signs and symbols quite quickly. But the process was gradual.
Signs and symbols can be cut out from the manual “ Demo material(for children 2-7 years old)” or do it yourself.
Now Anya had to not just put the figure on the album, but use signs and symbols to decipher the hidden figure.
- Anya, just look, the evil wizard bewitched the crocodile. We need to help the poor guy. The wizard left cunning clues for us.
Game 3. We are looking for hidden treasure.
For games of this type, I found the following manuals useful:
- “We make nonsense. Series Blocks of Dienesh from 4 years old"
When Anya guessed and built all the fairy-tale characters, we came up with new game- “Find the hidden treasure.” I put the figures in a row. I hide a sticker under one of the figures. Next I show Anya the signs and symbols. Using these signs, Anya guesses the figure, picks it up and finds the hidden sticker. There is no limit to delight!
Games with Dienesh Blocks for the older group
Game 4. Search for sunken treasure.
My eldest daughter Masha is 7 years old. She is in first grade. But even for her, Dienesh’s logic blocks are an excellent game that develops logical thinking and even the basics of mathematics.
To play with Maria, I purchased the manual “Searching for Sunken Treasure.” It suggests first solving mathematical examples, and then using the answers received to decipher the hidden figures using signs and symbols.
Also for older children you can use the following benefits:
- “Rescuers are coming to the rescue. Series of Dienesh Blocks for seniors (5-8 years old)"
- “Searching for sunken treasure. Series of Dienesh Blocks for seniors (5-8 years old)"
- “Holiday in the country of Blocks. Series of Dienesh Blocks for seniors (5-8 years old)"
Where to buy the game manual “Logic Blocks of Dienesh”
Now comes the fun part. The cost of the game manual “Logic Blocks of Dienesh” is not at all high - approximately from 300 to 600 rubles(depending on the store).
Here are some links to online stores where you can buy this game guide:
The game guide “Dienesh's Logic Blocks” is a wonderful game. If you have a child in your family who is from 2 to 8 years old, then feel free to purchase it. You can make cards (signs-symbols) yourself. In the instructions for the game you will find many useful and exciting games.
Many thanks to the company "Corvet" LLC (St. Petersburg, official website www.corvet-igra.ru) for a wonderful gaming guide!
Olga Rybolovleva