Magnetic electronic blocks. What an interesting and easy way to create circuits & build STE(A)M skills. We're thinking about incorporating this in our classrooms in the near future.
http://littlebits.cc/ Math for seven-year-olds: graph coloring, chromatic numbers, and Eulerian paths and circuits5/30/2014
As a guest today in my daughter’s second-grade classroom, full of math-enthusiastic seven-and-eight-year-old girls, I led a mathematical investigation of graph coloring, chromatic numbers, map coloring and Eulerian paths and circuits. I brought in a pile of sample graphs I had prepared, and all the girls made up their own graphs and maps to challenge each other. By the end each child had compiled a mathematical “coloring book” containing the results of their explorations. Let me tell you a little about what we did. We began with vertex coloring, where one colors the vertices of a graph in such a way that adjacent vertices get different colors. We started with some easy examples, and then moved on to more complicated graphs, which they attacked. Read on |
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