<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi everybody,<br><br></div>I did not give any dead line ;)<br>I just said that in two months I am teaching sharing (not division but that leads to it. )<br></div><div>Having close to no time between holidays, I like Bdoin and Johnny time approach that I understood like "it will be finished when it will be finished, no rush".<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And I did not ask for an exe either :) I just said that in my class we only have windows pc.<br></div><br></div>The idea I gave is a bit different that what steven wrote.<br></div>What I do with cards at the moment when I teach to solve division problem is the following.<br><br></div>For example I write on the board,<br><br></div>I have 9 candies and I want to share them equally between 1 boy and two girls.<br><br></div><div>In a first step I have <br></div>9 cards showing each one a candy; one 1 boy card and 2 girl cards<br></div>Pupils have to place the three boy and girls cards in front of them, then distributes. Which gives the result of the sharing..<br><br></div>2nd step<br></div>I have many cards with boys and girls and many cards with candies<br></div>This time pupils must prepare themself the material (1 boy card and 2 girl cards) and 9 candies cards.<br></div>Then they then distributes, and this gives the results to the sharing.<br><br></div>have a good day,<br><br></div>Emmanuel (Allon)<br><div><div><div><div><div><br><br><div><br><div><div><div><br><br><br><br><div><br><br><br><div><div><br><div><div><div><br><br><br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-02-11 14:43 GMT+01:00 Stefan TONCU <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefan.toncu@cti.pub.ro" target="_blank">stefan.toncu@cti.pub.ro</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi everyone!</p>
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<p>I noticed that we don't have a division/splitting activity and i started working on one. <span style="font-size:12pt">This is what i did so far: </span><a href="https://youtu.be/Lgb9UcxkiOI" title="https://youtu.be/Lgb9UcxkiOI
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" style="font-size:12pt" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Lgb9UcxkiOI</a></p>
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<p>The purpose of the activity is to teach children how to divide a number to another one. I was thinking about having some candies to split to a number of children, based on level's difficulty </p>
<p>- level 1 - 1 candy to 1 child - 1:1=1; 2 candies to 1 child - 2:1=2 etc.</p>
<p>- level 2 - 4 candies to 2 children means 2 candies to each child - 4:2=2, 6:2=3 <span style="font-size:12pt">etc.</span></p>
<p>For that i used some colored rectangles: green rectangles from top are for candies that are not yet "eaten", red, blue, black<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji',NotoColorEmoji,'Segoe UI Symbol','Android Emoji',EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px">,
yellow</span> rectangles in the bottom are children to which you have to split the candies. You have to touch a child
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(<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">red, blue, black</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji',NotoColorEmoji,'Segoe UI Symbol','Android Emoji',EmojiSymbols">,
yellow</span>) </span>and then a candy (green) to give it to him. If you split the candies equally, you will go to the next sublevel/level. You can chose any candies in anyway you like, but you have to split them equally. </p>
<p>Of course, the video i posted is a demo; i didn't want to invest too much time into something that no one would like to use eventually (i hope that's not the case). That being said, it is only natural that the colored rectangles will be replaced with<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji',NotoColorEmoji,'Segoe UI Symbol','Android Emoji',EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px"> some
nice pictures of candies and children.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji',NotoColorEmoji,'Segoe UI Symbol','Android Emoji',EmojiSymbols;font-size:16px">For the purpose of the video, i wrote a number on each green rectangle: the number
of candies that each child gets. When the two numbers are equal, then you go to the next sublevel/level. Lets say i want to give 6 candies to 2 children: i will
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then </span>give each one 3 candies <a href="https://youtu.be/Lgb9UcxkiOI?t=27s" title="https://youtu.be/Lgb9UcxkiOI?t=27s
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Lgb9UcxkiOI?t=27s</a>. This number should be shown underneath the
colored rectangles (there is a "0" displayed there), but i haven't linked it this way yet.</span><br>
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<p>A nice improvement could be instead of clicking on children and then on candies to give them to the children, to drag the candies on top of a child and make an animation like he eats the candy.</p>
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<p>I talked to allon on irc and he gave me some ideas: </p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt">- we should let the user decide how many children to split the candies to, or even how many candies to have in total</span><br>
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<p>- the final product should look exponentially better than the demo in my video (i showed the video to some friends and parents and no one understood anything without me explaining what the games is about, so it has to be more intuitive).</p>
<p>- he also gave me a 2 months deadline (this is when he teaches division in his classes) and he would like to have an exe file (for his windows computers) - which i know is possible because Johnny built a version of it some time ago.</p>
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<p>I am writing to you to ask for your feedback: first of all, do you like the idea? Do you think it is worth working at and would you integrate it after i finish it?</p>
<p>If i manage to do it, can you help me with some cool animations (i'm kind of new at the animation part) ?</p>
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<p>Thank you for your time and suggestions,</p>
<p>Steven</p>
<p>(StefanToncu on irc)</p>
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