Nathan's been building and working on understanding how to tell the time for a few years now. Today I felt that he was ready for me to take it further...and that knowing how to count in 5's would probably help in understanding how the minutes work (he's aware of o'clock and half past and when it's a few minutes to the new hour but hadn't made the connection to much else).
He was hanging out watching the dialogue clock on the stove while waiting for it to be time to go and visit some friends who would be finishing school at 3pm.
First up I wrote out a list of numbers counting in 5's and asked him to see if he could find the pattern.
Then showed how those 5 minute chunks related to the clock face.
In the car on the way to visit our friends he wanted to know how much was 100 hours. So I said it was just over 4 days. "Wow, how do you know that?". So I explained how each day is 24hrs, two days is 48 hours and how 4 days is 96 hours and that that is almost 100 hrs. So 100 hrs equals 4 days and 4 hrs.
1 comments:
Very cool! It's amazing how connected everything is when you flow with the knowledge instead of separating it out.
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