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First off, thanks to my well-wishers. It has been a long and exhausting week, but yesterday I finally started feeling like myself again. Phew! Now, anyone have great ideas or resources on teaching binary to kids? We are at the end of our current Singapore book, and I am still feeling a bit frustrated with math. Because Violet does not have strong "operations" skills (in relation to her other math abilities), I continue to plod through stuff that is conceptually quite easy for her, occasionally throwing her a bone like our algebra studies. I know the kid needs to improve her basic math facts facility, but who wants to plod? Isn't that why we started homeschooling, to stop plodding? So -- today I overheard DH teaching Violet about binary. She knows a little bit -- enough to get the joke from these UberGeek t-shirts. But she seemed really jazzed, especially when I reminded her that binary is the language that computers speak. (I'm also looking for her to learn some programming, as she is very interested.) So during the weeks that she has church day camp and science day camp, we agreed that DH would teach binary numbers a few nights a week rather than start our next Singapore book. DH is probably competent on his own -- he's a great teacher for children -- but I would really like to find some materials to use. Here are a few things that look interesting so far: Any and all suggestions welcomed! |
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