We are nearly to the end of our Introduction to Number Theory book. In addition to providing us with many math project that are fun all on their own, I’ve been really happy to find so many great and unusual ways to secretly work number sense. The topic today was writing “decimals” in other bases which gave us lots of time to play with fractions, decimals, and place value.
When I got home from work tonight we reviewed a few of the homework problems and then I gave my son a shot at writing out 1/3 in binary. It was neat to watch him work through this problem, and so cool to see him smile at the analogy to 0.99999…. = 1 in binary at the end of the video. I think the fun of topics like this can draw kids into math while also providing lots of opportunities to build on their basic understanding of arithmetic and numbers.
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