Joe, I just got back from volunteering and I relied on your idea to personalize the family idea. I stuck with a family of fish, not people, and left out "extended". I used blue and red fish in the family, like in the quoted document. It seemed to go over very well. I had only 4 kids today and for a whole hour. Two of them really "got it" and I could tell they "got it" just today. The other two got part of it and struggled, but will get it later.
The quoted document said this is a very difficult concept, and to give the kids time. Thanks, On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a 3 year old so I'll be learning this in a few years. Truthfully, I > had to read the fact family example a few times to understand it. I skimmed > it the first time. > > I recall that I did not do so well with multiplication tables in elementary > school. I don't remember addition or subtraction tables. I think we started > by learning to just count adding and removing things, which isn't as > practical once you get into multiplication or division. > > Fact families didn't make as much intuitive sense until I thought of it as > human family. This use of the word family may be what they are going for > instead of a more academic use of the word to define similar groups. I > don't know. > > Using the human family metaphor, I guess you could say the family is made > up of the total number of people in the extended family. > > "So 1,5,6 and 2,4,6 are both fact families of 6." -> 6 being the total > number of people in the family. > > You could describe an extended family as being made up of an uncle, and a > mom and dad with two kids (6). The uncle is a family of one and the other > family has five people. Altogether that extended (fact) family is 6. > > I don't know if that really flies or not... It just crossed my mind as I > was reading through it. My daughter is really into the idea of our extended > family as it's something we make an effort to teach about. > > > -- (B=) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
