I brought back a pile of foreign coins from Bangalore. Lakshmi now keeps her treasure in a treasure box.
We pull them out sort them, count them, make patterns with them, stack them and so on.
Once while counting she found 12 of one kind of coin. So she wanted to 12 of each kind of coins. We had seven or eight types in which they were 12.
Suddenly she wanted to add 12 to 12.
And then another 12 to that and count all over again...
till we finished all the 12s...
she had stumbled into the 12 times tables that we had painfully crammed...
Then she asked her dad ...and to her surprise he could answer each time she added another 12...
So she decided to do the whole thing with ten and ask him again...
Our coin pile is larger now. We took out all the coins left over from Vish's travels and have sorted them out and kept. When we play all three of set up a game corner and the other two has to come and play. I set up a sequence where there was difference of three between each number. Then a sequence which went 2,4...and? The answer could be eight or 6. We wanted her to know that the answer could be anything. We are not looking for a single answer.
She put out a game where one had to make different kinds of patterns with six coins. We were all making all possible combinations. Vish and I were making patterns and she was making things. She put four coins in one row and two in the center in the row below twice. We told her they were the same. She flipped the two coins to the row above the four. "There" she said "One is a park bench and the other a ship". So we were starting to talk that language too. I made a pattern and called it an escalator!
Our coin pile is larger now. We took out all the coins left over from Vish's travels and have sorted them out and kept. When we play all three of set up a game corner and the other two has to come and play. I set up a sequence where there was difference of three between each number. Then a sequence which went 2,4...and? The answer could be eight or 6. We wanted her to know that the answer could be anything. We are not looking for a single answer.
She put out a game where one had to make different kinds of patterns with six coins. We were all making all possible combinations. Vish and I were making patterns and she was making things. She put four coins in one row and two in the center in the row below twice. We told her they were the same. She flipped the two coins to the row above the four. "There" she said "One is a park bench and the other a ship". So we were starting to talk that language too. I made a pattern and called it an escalator!
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