For sure with the fingers. It's also good instead of talking - table for five 🖐️ How about estimation games where you guess how many candies are in the jar? My daughter just won a Lego bonzai tree for coming closest to the number of peppermints in a goldfish bowl
I love trying to estimate things with limited info! It's kind of like finding out you have a superpower, only everyone with an imagination has it. Still, if you can get at least within an order of magnitude on some things, that's really valuable!
You are spot-on with communicating a number with your hands. They go both ways.
There was actually a tie in my daughter's case. Someone actually guessed exactly the same as her or - as she pointed out - was off by the same amount. Kids love this game. JFran does it all the time with candy and they are super motivated because if you win, well candy
Are you familiar with "the wisdom of the crowd" and how that idea came to prominence? There was a contest to guess the weight of an ox or something, and the crowd collectively came the closest.
That sounds cool; I'll ask JFran if she gets class discussion going on guesses. Yknow another trick for this is patterns and sizes and maybe weight too. Like poker chips. Dealer/players can count by tens by feel or size
I actually have a really clever hack when I need to count large numbers of something. I simply count some common characteristic between those things and then do a bit of quick math.
Say I'm trying to figure out how many cows there are. I just count their legs first, then divide that number but four. Easy!
Life is but a circle, and making things much more complex can only possibly result in making them more simple in the end. I'd say "bah, humbug", but I legitimately hope you and your family have a very nice, comfy couple of days!
For sure with the fingers. It's also good instead of talking - table for five 🖐️ How about estimation games where you guess how many candies are in the jar? My daughter just won a Lego bonzai tree for coming closest to the number of peppermints in a goldfish bowl
I love trying to estimate things with limited info! It's kind of like finding out you have a superpower, only everyone with an imagination has it. Still, if you can get at least within an order of magnitude on some things, that's really valuable!
You are spot-on with communicating a number with your hands. They go both ways.
There was actually a tie in my daughter's case. Someone actually guessed exactly the same as her or - as she pointed out - was off by the same amount. Kids love this game. JFran does it all the time with candy and they are super motivated because if you win, well candy
Are you familiar with "the wisdom of the crowd" and how that idea came to prominence? There was a contest to guess the weight of an ox or something, and the crowd collectively came the closest.
That sounds cool; I'll ask JFran if she gets class discussion going on guesses. Yknow another trick for this is patterns and sizes and maybe weight too. Like poker chips. Dealer/players can count by tens by feel or size
Excellent point, and maybe this circles back to the idea of using your hands to count (or convey info) in other ways. Hands are so great.
I actually have a really clever hack when I need to count large numbers of something. I simply count some common characteristic between those things and then do a bit of quick math.
Say I'm trying to figure out how many cows there are. I just count their legs first, then divide that number but four. Easy!
Feel free to use my system from now on.
Also, Merry Christmas!
Life is but a circle, and making things much more complex can only possibly result in making them more simple in the end. I'd say "bah, humbug", but I legitimately hope you and your family have a very nice, comfy couple of days!
The harder you make it, the simpler it is. It's pure logic.