Math with Noah
Noah: Well first we take some buttons and then you don’t tell anybody
what number you’re thinking of. And then take a calculator and I type
down the words on the card and then I see what number it is you’re
thinking of! And that’s the end of the story.
Dawn: Noah and I were playing his board game Math Race and then I went and got some notecards and we decided to solve the mystery of 10. I got out our buttons and I lined up 10 white buttons. Then above that I lined up 1 blue button and 9 red buttons. And on and on. Noah got out his calculator and did the sums and then counted the buttons to make sure he was right. We used the notecards to write down the sums. 7 + 3 = 10 and then 3 + 7 = 10 all through all of the combinations.
He thought that was pretty fun so we also solved the mystery of a couple of other numbers. Then Noah had a new idea. He wanted me to think of a number and then put down a sum in buttons. So if the number was, say, 9 I might put down 7 yellow buttons and 2 green ones. Then he used his calculator to figure it out and I always pretended he was wrong and then he counted the buttons to prove it to me. Because Noah is all about pretending, we decided that this was for the championship of the world and he was a Pokemon (which one changed with each sum) and I was Jessie of Team Rocket (aka “the bad guy”). He thought this was so great that we played a little with Daddy that night.
You’re a durn good momma.
Just thought I’d mention it.
S
Monk and I played a game with poker chips where I put them all in a group and then flicked a chip at the group. We were allowed to take all of the chips that were not touching other chips. In the end, we practiced counting by “two”s. It was great fun. I think you could do the same thing with marbles. You could also count by three’s or fours or fives…or more.
Pretty cool, dawn!