Many children have the ability to use their own explorations as a bridge to move from the concrete to the abstract, "but the problem is, how much time and space do we give children when they are first coming into contact with math?" asks Huang Min-huang, a professor at NTU.
透過自我的摸索，從具象到抽象，這的確是許多小孩學數學的本能，「問題在小孩開始接觸時，我們的數學教育給孩子多少空間、時間」，台大黃敏晃教授說。