Letty

Date: Friday, July 4, 2008, 12:06 PM






Here's a link from the science list that I thought folks here might be
interested in as well:

The Lost Ladybug Project
http://instruct1. cit.cornell. edu/courses/ icb344/Lost_ Ladybugs. htm

Sounds like a fun summer project! As has been mentioned here before,
nature surveys are good way to have fun with "real life" math (in this
case, counting and measuring ladybugs and identifying them by the
number of spots they have).

Enjoy!


















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Ren Allen

~~As has been mentioned here before,
nature surveys are good way to have fun with "real life" math (in this
case, counting and measuring ladybugs and identifying them by the
number of spots they have).~~


It's real life math when the kids, out of a sense of curiosity, start
counting lady bug spots (or anything else they're fascinated with)
just for fun!
I can see mentioning this if you thought you have a child that would
like it, but why try to squeeze math in with some contrived project?
Math happens. All the time, all around us.

Games are fun, counting is fun, but I worry that posts like this send
the message that unschoolers are still worried about covering subjects
and just find fun ways to do it. Unschooling is life without
subjects...just interests and learning because we are curious about
something.

Ren
learninginfreedom.com