A new unusual activity for my unschooling boy❤️.
This time we discovered coordinate systems.
Why does a 7-year old boy need this knowledge?
It seems strange because it's really not a school plan for the 1st grade.
I don't follow it at all.
I have my goal to make my son's life interesting and full of useful knowledge and facts. It has nothing in common with school education;)
Coordinate systems helps a kid understand that life exists not only in one line or a plane, there are some dimensions, and we can use them to find intersection points.
Of course, it sounds very weird for 7 years. That's why I used a nice easy game for it.
Here it is!
We painted X and You lines, and then I wrote some coordinates, and my son had to find them and intersection points to get... A picture.
It was important to create a picture of an object, otherwise, there had been no interest to do it;)
My boy succeed in this task very fast, and he liked it. It was something new and strange for him, but small discoveries every day make educational process so inspiring, yeah? :)
Hi @taliakerch, excellent idea to work the coordinate system, many times we think it is complicated to work a certain topic with children and with games like this is very practical and simple, thanks for sharing.
Blessings!
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Now get him to graph some functions, then you'll see some real mathematical art! I have an entire notebook filled with formulas for generating line drawings, if you would like some ideas.
On a similar note, do you think it easier or harder to introduce 3-dimensional coordinate system first? From the way that math is typically taught, one would think that 3D is a harder concept to grasp than functions, but I'm not convinced.
yeah, there's something in your words...
now we're trying to get 3D-system too, we've bought a special game book where a kid should construct his own 3D-pictures.
I'll share results soon;)