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learn1ng2learnon Pas a Pas: Using animation to teach abstract concepts to children

Well, could you reference something more scientific and recent? You just dissed Montessori's saying it's quite poor, and some backing to that would be great.

I would agree of course, 100 years over it's bound to be primitive to what we know now. Since you say in a previous comment you are a member of the German Education and Science Union I was hoping you could point us the right way

learn1ng2learnon Pas a Pas: Using animation to teach abstract concepts to children

> This is not surprising as Maria Montessoris understanding of geometry and pre-numeric Math is nowadays considered to be quite poor.

Could you elaborate on this? Or point to any references? Thanks