http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/10/math-milk-and-cookies-what-everyday-activities-can-tell-us-about-randomness-and-decision-making/ A repository for Bowdoin news archives Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.11 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/10/math-milk-and-cookies-what-everyday-activities-can-tell-us-about-randomness-and-decision-making/comment-page-1/#comment-120188 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:25:42 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=139946#comment-120188 I taught my boy, Kevin, algebra. At 5 year old he can solve random algebra equations and made his own. No matter how random the questions my be asked by other, he always break information drown from random questions and rebuilt them base on what he already knew. Last year when he was in 5th grade, He took college placement test at UWS and pass all the algebra requirement even he never study algebra word problem. From my experience, you can change the whole basic math from randomly add, subtract, multiply faction and so on to a very concrete events preschoolers can master them. Algebra and calculus is not an exception. Pure, core Algebra and calculus can be made to be very easy and simple, that my younger kids will master them at 5 year old.

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