Father and son and mathematics

 My son is turned out more and more. to be an inquisitive and explorative mind. He wants to learn mathematics in particular, but not just that. He seems to want to learn about almost everything. He taught himself to read and do simple arithmetics when he was 4 or 5. I found myself explaining simple things from linear algebra to him by that time. Not necessarily that he understood what it was for at that time, but what makes me glad is that he shows a self driven interest and curiosity and a persistence to learn.

He was doing simple math in his head and learned the way of thinking quite well, rather than just memorising things. I found it entertaining to find intuitive ways to convey understanding with emphasis on why and how and what things means, or can mean (ie the matter of interpretation/hence thinking as an artform and skill). This I explicitly tell remind him. That it is not so important to be able to do computations with large numbers, but rather to understand the problem you wish to solve, and then find a good way to solve it, and understand the process of finding this solution. So I emphasised the acquiring of this cognitive process, method of autonomy in thinking about thinking. Sort of strengthening the conductor of the brain as your orchestra. Where do you want to go. What way can you get there?

First step. Understanding the problem. What does it mean. Can the problem be understood in a different way? In a simpler way? Is the an analogy or simplification of the problem or a subset of the problem, or a transformation of the problem that can be understood much more clearly. And having done this, how does this inform our progression to a solution to the original problem?

Our walks and time spend together these day, as I am between work, is spend learning new things and exploring intellectual challenge. I as his mentor and father. He as a young boy learning about the world and about how to learn about the world  

He is reading and learning about animals.  Now he is writing a book about "Dangerous Animals".

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