well you lost me...Quote:
Originally Posted by I_Love_My_Vans
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well you lost me...Quote:
Originally Posted by I_Love_My_Vans
guess my hair length.
NO CHEATING AND GOING TO MYSPACE!!!!!!
that's it. You already lost.
Damnit.
I hate you all.
Ha! I am english and do not have worry about your american system of education :p
Btw: its maths not math ! :p :p :p
Here, There,Quote:
Originally Posted by singularis
no, it sucks is what it is .. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by singularis
Can you answer this? 1 + 2 +3?
She's a firestarter, twisted firestarter.Quote:
Originally Posted by mendhak
Smack her up.
1+2+3=123
Duh..
I am creating activities for 4th grade math students concerning math story problems. Solving one-step story problems involving whole numbers and money amounts. 2 and 3 digit numbers in addition and subtraction and 1 and 2 digit number multiplication problems.
I am trying to stay away from basic worksheets. Looking for hand-on activities.
Does anyone have any ideas? :afrog: :eek2: :wave: :duck:
The Truth: The sad truth about majority of young kids and math is that they don't like math and all they want is to get home and play video games.
The solution: Write a math based video game!
The idea: Everytime they get something correct math related, they earn experience points. They need enough experience to level up, similar to RPG's. They need 400 xp to reach level 2. 900 xp to reach level 3. 1400 xp for level 4. And so on. Their homework would be to reach a certain level before the next day. Over leveling would mean they wouldn't need to play as hard the next day, effectively causing them to learn and have fun with it. What kid wouldn't kill to level up fast. They are already doing it as adults playing World of Warcraft! It would need to be something not as boring as just math story problems or flash cards, but something with a twist, blending a fun game with mathematics involved. Like a player would need to complete a quest and the quest giver gives em a math related story / quest that they would need to pull off in order to complete the quest and earn experience during the quest as well as earn experience after completing the quest. You can't get any more hands on than that and what kid these days don't own a computer. It's nearly 2012 :eek:
Marketable?: Possibly :bigyello:
the thing is, that math can't be used in real life
lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by moti barski
Although I agree most things taught at school will likely never help you in real life, you do need to know how to do maths.
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Originally Posted by moti barski
i'll bite!
moti, how did you come up with gem like that?
Some schools are looking into leveling rather than grades. I think it has a lot of potential. When you get a grade, who are you really competing against? For some people, they won't get much satisfaction from that, but a leveling system would be much more directly competitive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
Personally, I think it's a brilliant idea. It makes use of the tendencies most of us have to begin with.
Also why limit it to just math? It can also be used for English, Social Studies, History, etc. Remember Carmen Sandiego? You learned a lot playing that game even though on the side you were gathering clues to finding the crooks. The propaganda is the learning experience gained.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
They are now planning a movie on that.
Absolutely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
Frankly, I think this is the most promising concept in teaching in decades, and I hope to see it attempted in earnest. I believe that the minds to do a good job with this exist these days, and have reached the proper age. The whole concept probably wasn't possible to discover as recently as the 90s, because the level-chasing games didn't really show up. I guess there were games like D&D that had been around longer, but they were a total fringe activity. Now that you have all kinds of level based games, the motivational impact of such a reward system is being better and better understood. The only issue now is implementing it. Not a small problem, of course, but a tractable one.
This concept should be tested on children. It worked on me when I was very very young. I learned how to read at the age of 2 cause of a Sesame Street game on the Apple IIc and was already picking up math before I even reached grade school. Old people (mainly teachers) find video games to be a childish thing. Yet video games can be a useful tool on accelerated learning! It just depends on how you use it. Children don't like being bored to death. If anything it prevents them from learning at all.
I agree. That's one of the reasons that I think the idea is coming of age. The video game genration is reaching middle age.
Of course, in your case, you also turned into a WoW player, so it may be that there are some negative side effects.
Heeeeey I don't play WoW 24/7 or I wouldn't be coding, spending time with my girl, or hanging out here :bigyello:
If I did I'd end up looking like this :eek: ------> http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.p...1&d=1320382565
Hmm. 4 years ago i got an A on my test...Quote:
Originally Posted by dclamp
Truly remarkable, Sherlock!Quote:
Originally Posted by dclamp
They taught kids (using a KINECT) that never learned to read. Kill BUGS, because they spread GERMS. Then 'kill' them in 30 second Kinect Game. Neat concept
MySpace.Quote:
Originally Posted by timeshifter
You're a couple of days early
What's a MySpace ? Is that some ancient artifact or something ?
Things go down hill pretty fast, then things get really hard...Quote:
Originally Posted by timeshifter
I thought that was the other way around.
Wait, what are we talking about?
Now you're the kind of guy I like to sell things to!Quote:
Originally Posted by moti barski
Mayans used it when making their calendarQuote:
Originally Posted by Niya
So THAT's why there aren't any Mayans around anymore....
And is that why the months are all messed up with their names and ordinals?
October should be the 8th month and December the 10th but nooooo someone had to go and add additional months after the calendar was in place and carved in stone. Now all the predictions done thousands of years ago are not all off and we wonder why they got it wrong lol
September should also be the seventh month, and March should be the month for walking, but there's generally too much snow, still, at that time.
Well to be fair, undecimember and duodecimember, leave something to be desired as month names! It looks suspiciously like the names came out of some arduous committee meeting which started with enthusiasm (Gods! Janus, Mars!) became increasingly turgid (Oh, I don't know, what about a couple of Emperors?) and then fizzled out altogether (Sod this! I'm going down the pub! They'll have to put up with the numbers! And, no we're not messing about adjusting to a duodecimal year! I need a drink!)Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
duodecimember looks suspiciously like something that came out of the upper small intestine.