Unschooling Math

This video shows my daughter learning addition from a *gasp* computer game. The point of this game is to balance the see-saw. There is a certain amount of weight on the left hand side, a number from 1 to 9. Her job is to choose a combination of smaller integers that adds up to the weight on the left hand side of the see-saw and add them to the right hand side of the see-saw. I do not force her to play this game. She felt a desire to understand how to balance the see-saw, and I showed her how to figure it out using poker chips. According to my limited and beginning knowledge of unschooling, this is a good representation of unschooling math.

Google Video | January 9, 2008

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