Seri was working on her IA work today and they taught a small section on binary code. Unfortunately the explanations were not all that great. I could figure it out only if the numbers were 1 and 0, throw in any other number and I couldn't translate it. So, I told Seri to wait until her father got home.
When he did I promptly sent him to Seri's aid. The whole time I was cooking dinner I heard their chatter and what was strange was that it sounded like they were actually having a good time!!! Go figure.
So they come downstairs and I am pleased to hear Seri say that she now understands it. So she sits down with a piece of paper on which her father has written numbers using the base ten system for her to translate into a base two and vice versa. she is enjoying it so much that none of her dinner gets eaten.
Now at dinner time we have a ritual of High points, Low points, where each member of the family tells of their days high and low. Seri's high......"learning binary code!!!!
After dinner they are so thrilled with this new concept that they set out to teach it to me. Now I purposefully avoid math to all ends. That is the one area I have always used curriculum for the children in. (Saxon, and now Math-U-See). But despite my best efforts I couldn't dissapoint them and really tried to understand. So, now I understand it but just can't muster up the enthusiasm that they share for it. Now they are duscussing hexadecimal and base eight systems! Oh the joy (literally) of homeschooling. I will let math be their own secret language :)
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