Math Discoveries – Page 4

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Farkle Math

A game of Farkle is perfect for simple and more complex arithmetic. Addition is necessary to keep score, subtraction is necessary to gain points, along with division and percentage related to determining odds. Estimation, assumption, ordering, quantity value, and value set recognition are also an integral aspect of the game.

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Apparently When It's Relevant, We Learn

Today, Lily again informed me of the date. It’s December 19. She reminded me that yesterday was the 18th. She then reminded me that there are 6 days until Christmas. She then stated that she’s close to 107, which is after 106, which happens to be an episode number in the MLP (Friendship is Magic) […]

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Minecraft, It Is

This past weekend, we launched our first ever, private Minecraft world that we’re hosting. It’s been offered to a group of young kids from the WLU community and we’ve set it as Creative only. The kids (about 30 of them, ranging from 4 to 15, with all but two of them are under 11) are […]

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Intuitive Guide to Angles, Degrees and Radians

Intuitive Guide to Angles, Degrees and Radians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grad_(angle) It’s an obvious fact that circles should have 360 degrees. Right? Wrong. Most of us have no idea why there’s 360 degrees in a circle. We memorize a magic number as the “size of a circle” and set ourselves up for confusion when studying advanced math or physics, with […]

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Lily Sees $$

A few days ago Lily and I explored US currency. We also explored the amazing power of ZERO! Yesterday, as we were discussing her age, and how many months vs a fraction of year she has accomplished (using hair bands no less), she demonstrated her understanding and complete comprehension of adding with single digits and then […]

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Our First Attempt at Marshmallow Construction and the Great Cheese Incident

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Houses, Castles, & Questions

I’ve decided that to best keep track of my own mind, as well as attempt to record the finer points of Lily’s development and her day, that I really have to just leave a post window open all day long. I see it, I write, I add pics, whatever… Today began with Lily showing us […]

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Houses, Castles, & Questions

I’ve decided that to best keep track of my own mind, as well as attempt to record the finer points of Lily’s development and her day, that I really have to just leave a post window open all day long. I see it, I write, I add pics, whatever… Today began with Lily showing us […]

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STEM, Optics First, Robots Next

After learning about the STEM program at our local university a few weeks ago, I spoke with Lily about her interest and upon her request began the process of trying to get her accepted, given that the requirement was a minimum of 4th grade. As we are not utilizing “grades” and she already meets about […]

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M82, Lightyear Distances, and Warp Speed

Copied in from FB because I don’t have enough time to retype tonight, as Lily has declared the “period of a human’s life” is too short to spend typing. She asked me this morning what a ‘period of time’ was. Lily and I want to know, were we to convert light years into distance (yes, […]