One of the cheapest foods we got at the local market was red
beans- apparently only poor people eat them, so the average people refused to
buy them. We loved them (except the 4 hour cook time of course) because they
were a cheap, reliable, and non-perishable form of protein!
But perhaps what was best was their use as “construction
blocks” for Zeru’s math lessons.
We started with number recognition (some how 7 and 9 get
mixed up often- not sure how) then moved on to addition, subtraction, and even
multiplication and division.
Here you can see our number recognition lesson.
There are many construction “Sites” and each site needs a
specific number of “blocks” or “bricks” to build its building. Make sure each
site has the correct number of bricks.
This is also useful for his learning to count to higher
numbers (like those tricky teen numbers which make no sense. Why don’t we just
say “five-teen?” That would be so much simpler! Or what about eleven- what does
that even mean?)
For multiplication and division we make “construction sites”
and each site takes the same number of “bricks.” If the contractor has 12
bricks, and 4 sites, how many bricks can he use for each site? Or if he has 3
sites and each uses 4 bricks, how many bricks will he need all together?
Pretty simple fun application of division and
multiplication. And all we need is beans!
For added fun use real blocks and let your little builder
create something which each set of “bricks” set out in each site!
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