Math Genius? You decide.
Last night, Monkey Boy would NOT go to bed. I rocked, let him watch a little CSI with me, let him play with a few toys, and still he would not get tired! He was yawning, but fighting actual sleep with all his might. Normally I would just keep putting him back to bed against his protests, but he was quite vocal with his refusal and Squid had to get up at 2am to go to work this morning. Thus, I caved.
At one point, I looked down from my computer chair and saw this sweet face:
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I was a little irked that he had those geometry shapes out AGAIN! He is constantly playing with them and leaving them all over the room. It’s not so bad when it’s the sphere or hemisphere, but those pyramids can hurt the tootsies! Then I looked closer at what he was doing with them:
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I swear, we have never worked on shapes at all. This unschooling thing just might work, after all!
(Andrea, why do pictures do this in this template? They simply refuse to left-align.)
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That is awesome! I love the way he seemed to “get” the concept of 3-dimensionality on his own. Awesome! (and …yes … ultimate cuteness!)
December 14th, 2006 at 5:52 pmVery, very cute. He reminds me of my Eli in cuteness at that age and that he was also really interested in this type of playing around with math manipulatives at a young age, especially things like this, or pentonimoes or tangrams, and the such. He loves math today. He ended up being a huge Lego builder, loved trains and building tracks, and eventually a musician. We’ll see if your little ends up going in any of these directions . . .
Oh, and I unschooled mine, too
-Cindy
December 14th, 2006 at 9:47 pmThe style sheet has them floating right. I’ll talk to A. about it and see what we can do
December 18th, 2006 at 6:25 pmOr you could try making a table for posts such as these.
January 14th, 2007 at 12:35 pm