What did I expect on going into this session? Some of my concerns were the amount of instructions needed for Explorers to be able to benefit from the tasks. As a group, they aren't the most attentive. I realise that M28, P79and R2D are far more likely to stop and listen attentively. Cat and joy pick things up excellently, as they did today if they're in the mood for it. 007 is on and off. If c61 is there, she's always involved. The littler ones need a more instruction drill, drill type of approach which may mean either that they should be doing less involved tasks or that they are not ready to explore. Our founding principal is that everyone is ready to explore from birth but not all ready to be influenced in this direction.
The games session started with draughts and different forms of chess. There was limited choice but everyone was engaged to a degree. The little ones used the pieces as play things and fought each other. I wanted to influence their actions but I was unable able to. For me it would have been good to get them using the moves if not strategies. Maybe a knight's move challenge or chess solitaire would have been good. Suicide chess may have worked also. It was great that the older ones tried all the games even though the rules changed a bit. Should have brought and set up "Go".
The games session started with draughts and different forms of chess. There was limited choice but everyone was engaged to a degree. The little ones used the pieces as play things and fought each other. I wanted to influence their actions but I was unable able to. For me it would have been good to get them using the moves if not strategies. Maybe a knight's move challenge or chess solitaire would have been good. Suicide chess may have worked also. It was great that the older ones tried all the games even though the rules changed a bit. Should have brought and set up "Go".
The place value session had a healthy dose of chaos added to the mix. We started with finger signed numbers which would be good as a regular feature.
We looked at the sequence of powers of 2 which were well known to those who played 2048.
Moved on to Exploding dots. The task was to find out how many would end up in the 4th 5th and sixth positions. Most had big problems sticking to the method. Gq8 and m28 did it really well. And discovered everything that had been set up to discover. But what next for them?
It was a useful way for the others to try the drill to learn the system. I can make it optional next time with others using the binary converters. I'll set it as homework.
My aim is a comparable place value system. Ideally we would be able to compare them using our abacuses or something. It would ready them for Base 12.
Next week, converting to and from Binary and Base 5 to Base 10. Set up a spy system using ascii so that they can decode a message.
We looked at the sequence of powers of 2 which were well known to those who played 2048.
Moved on to Exploding dots. The task was to find out how many would end up in the 4th 5th and sixth positions. Most had big problems sticking to the method. Gq8 and m28 did it really well. And discovered everything that had been set up to discover. But what next for them?
It was a useful way for the others to try the drill to learn the system. I can make it optional next time with others using the binary converters. I'll set it as homework.
My aim is a comparable place value system. Ideally we would be able to compare them using our abacuses or something. It would ready them for Base 12.
Next week, converting to and from Binary and Base 5 to Base 10. Set up a spy system using ascii so that they can decode a message.
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