Why is it Mental Computation is important for children daily life application of money?

You give your children money before they go to school so that they can buy food in the school canteen or buy stationery on the way back home. You give them RM2 and they bring back home nothing. They spent it all!!

So, in order to help your children manage their money wisely, mental computation is absolutely an effective way to help them. Estimation and mental computation on money really can help children to save time doing long calculations. They used to do calculation using paper-and pencil method so its' going to take a very long time to do calculation when they want to buy something from the groceries as they need to take out their paper and pencil to do the calculation. So mental calculation is the best way to do calculation involving money whenever they want to buy something in the shop.

When they can do mental computation involving money, they can do such a good judgment as they can see the reasonableness of prices of items on sale. They can count in a fast way either a-RM5-items with 50% discount is much more cheaper than a-RM10-item with 60% discount. See. . . mental computation is such a problem solver for problem solving involving money and its really a help for your children. 

Mental computation on money is really useful because its help your children to solve problem when exact answers are not required. We know that 50% from RM5 is RM2.50 and 60% from RM10 is RM6. But how about, 50% from RM9.50? Just forget about the decimal, this is all about make a good assuming by judging for the best price and best valued item to be buy. Help your children learn this skills (mental computation), its really useful for their daily life activities. 

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Why is it Mental Computation is important for children daily life application of Money?

You give your children money before they go to school so that they can buy food in the school canteen or buy their stationery on the way back home. You give them RM2 and they bring back home nothing. They spent it all!!

So, in order to help your children manage their money wisely, mental computation is absolutely an effective way to help them. Estimation and mental computation on money really can help children to save time doing long calculations. They used to do calculation using paper-and-pencil method so it's going to take a very long time to do calculation when they want to buy something in the groceries as they need to take out their paper and pencil to do the calculation. So mental computation is the best way to do calculation involving money whenever they want to buy something in the shop.

When they can do mental computation involving money, they can do such a good judgment as they can see the reasonableness of prices of items on sale. They can count in a fast way either a-RM5-items with the less of 50% is much more cheaper than a-RM10-item with the less of 60%. See . . Mental computation is such a problem solver for problem involving money and its really a help for your children.

Mental computation on money is really useful because its help your children to solve problem when exact answers are not required. We know that 50% from RM5 is Rm2.50 and 60% from RM10 is RM6. But how about, 50% from RM9.50? Just forget about the decimal, this is all about make a good assuming by judging for the best price and best valued item to be buy. Help your children learn this skills (mental computation), its really useful for their daily life activities.

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Children difficulties in learning time.

Time is such a difficult topic to be learn by children. Its typically because it is an abstract concept. You can not touch time, you can feel time, you can not eat time so it is hard for children to learn time. In order to teach children about time, teacher need a very interactive and comprehensive approach to make sure that children are able to master this topic.


There are many reason why children find it hard to learn about this topic. One is normally many adults fault; especially clock manufacture. They usually use the sense of art to design their clock and the most important is the commercial value. They (the manufacturing company) don't care about our children in learning time. So that why we can find that there are many types of clock and watch in the market. Some with all 12 numbers, some Roman numerals, others with only 12, 3, 6 and 9 numerals, and still others with no numerals at all!


Other than that, the reason why children find it difficult yo learn about this topic is that time is measured using a mixture of base 12 and base 60 system, and when it extended to days, weeks, months and years, it uses base 7, 4, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 365 systems. It is so difficult for children to remember all of this because normally they are doing basic operation with the base of 10 not 4 not 7 not 12 and not even 356!


Time is absolutely influenced by the surrounding such as seasons changing, the movement of the sun, hands on a clock face and digit changing displays. All of this are absolutely new for certain people. For example, Malaysian and Brunei children are not facing any season changing such as autumn, winter and summer. So it is quiet hard for them to learn and understand about this without any previous knowledge.

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