Propositions and suggestions needed on ascending_order activity

[Johnny Jazeix]

Hi,


2018-01-18 9:58 GMT+01:00 Rohit Das <rohitdas950 at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
> My name is Rohit Das. I've been currently working on the ascending_order
> branch. This contains the ascending_order and alphabetical_order activity,
> both of which are concerned with teaching kids how to arrange numbers and
> letters respectively in either ascending or descending order.
>
> Johnny and I have been discussing on how to make the hints more helpful to
> enable chldren understand the concept and proceed. We are also musing upon
> how to separate the act of arranging the objects in ascending and
> descending order. We thought of:
> 1. Having a config option to switch between options, but the children
> might not be able to find it, since they would be very small and might be a
> bit difficult to navigate.
> 2. Have them select the ascending/descending order right after the
> activity starts.
>
> We could also have various types for the activity like weights,
> quantities, prices of objects, etc to show how one value is larger/smaller
> than the next. The types could be put in one activity, or can have their
> own activities altogether.
>
> The activities could also have categories, where the child may be asked to
> find out the largest/smallest number present in the set. I am yet to figure
> out how to make it easier to teach kids the alphabetical order and how it
> can be looked at as ascending/descending.
>
> Any suggestions, feedback is welcome regarding these two activities.
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Rohit Das
> https://mouri11.github.io
>

The aim is to know how much flexibility do we allow: if the child has to
choose the type of objects to order (numbers, letters) followed by the type
of the ordering (ascending/descending) and then the difficulty of the
objects to find (range for numbers, number of letters by "word" for
letters), children may be a bit lost.

What could be good is to have 1 different activity per theme, then a simple
view with 2 choices: ascending/descending and after that choosing the
difficulty. Then each level will have sublevels depending on this
difficulty.
I'm not sure if merging the difficulty and the type of ordering in a single
view is useful.

Regarding the hints, the question is more for teachers. What kind of hints
would be helpful on this kind of activity (if having hints is useful)?

Johnny
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