[ExI] roboburgers to go

[Tara Maya]

Have him come play with my 7 year old. Mine is quite social, but his math could use some improvement. They'd both benefit.  :)


On Sep 26, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> I am open to suggestion from anyone here on teaching my mathematically talented 7 yr old.  He is performing actual algebra and geometry in the second grade, no fooling.  His entire top row on his Khan Academy board is dark blue, 134 skills mastered and nearly a hundred more level 1s and 2s.  I have him doing Blender and Excel macros. 
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> Question please, what does a father teach a son today, assuming access to the collective  wisdom of years represented by this group?
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> Anders, Kelly, Eugen, Keith, anyone else especially fathers, what do we do now, coach?
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> until (and unless) humans radically depart from our nature in the next 10 years (doubtful) I'd say those skills you could give your son are the social skills classically at odds with the math nerd stereotype of which you are indubitably proud.
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> If he is capable of overcoming the schism of boys vs girls in school (to the point of making (and keeping) genuine friendships with people because of who they are / how they think) then he'll have those skills about 20 years ahead of his peers.  
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> I guess if you must frame the "problem" using maths, you could teach him statistics and try to develop some behavior modeling of the usual Meyers-Briggs personality types.  [I know your interests in certain 'models' - I'm confident he'll grow to appreciate the same.]   I'm confident the awareness/understanding of group/team dynamics will be very useful regardless of (or because of) future stressors on those groups.
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> Ok, you got me.  I have no idea how to really teach that.  
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