Children develop an understanding of mathematics through answering questions about why it is taught, why people enjoy it, and how it can be appreciated aesthetically like art. Mathematics is considered abstract because symbols like numbers represent concepts rather than physical objects, and the brain develops the ability to think abstractly and represent quantities without visualizing individual items. A child gains abstract thought through learning hierarchies of mathematical concepts that build upon each other over time.

1. Why and How kids Learn
Mathematics
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2. How Children Learn Mathematics?
Answer the six questions

3. Q.1 : Why teach mathematics

4. Q 2. Why do people enjoy
Mathematics?

5. Q 3. How can mathematics appeal to
one aesthetically, in a way similar to
music or art?

6. Q 4. Mathematics is often called an
‘abstract’ subject.
What is meant by this?

7. Q 5. How does my brain cope with
this hierarchy? When I see the
symbol ‘143’ I do not
imagine one hundred and forty-
three objects set out before me.
Have I then lost contact with
the real world?

8. Q 6. How does a child develop abstract
thought?