"There is one simple thing that kids embrace with all their being, justification-free, which can be used as a vessel for abstract reasoning: storytelling"
So true! This is a big part of why I #PickleStory
Me: This is a story about . . .
Luke: . . . Baby Pickle Putting Nickels on Pickle's Sickles
Me: Ok. One time Pickle was cutting grass when heβ
Luke: Why?
Me: Because you wanted a story about sickles. I'll have to double-check but I'm pretty sure they're used for cutting grass.
Luke: I meant popsicles.
Me: Ooh! That's a different kind of 'sicle.
Future #PickleStory idea: Baby Pickle asks Pickle for as many nickels as he can fit in a set. Pickle says sure, since he knows a set can only hold one of each item. Baby Pickle uses the power of nested sets to get a *lot* of nickels out of Pickle.
Baby Pickle and the Spaghetti Code
"When Pickle got back to his spaghetti machine, it was bristling with squeezing functions."
https://bancosparenting.wordpress.com/2023/03/19/baby-pickle-and-the-spaghetti-code/
#spaghetticode #StoryMath #BedtimeMath #tmwyk #PickleStory
Luke: I want you to tell a bedtime story where the Babies put Pickle into a times-two function and two Pickles come out. And then they put one of the Pickles into a function that turns thing negative.
Me: A times-negative-one function.
Luke: Yeah. And then they put the negative Pickle together with the positive Pickle and they go *poof!* π
Me: π¨ π¨ π¨ But then there would be no more Pickle!
Luke:π
Luke: I want you to tell a bedtime story where the Babies put Pickle into a times-two function and two Pickles come out. And then they put one of the Pickles into a function that turns thing negative.
Me: A times-negative-one function.
Luke: Yeah. And then they put the negative Pickle together with the positive Pickle and they go *poof!* π
Me: π¨π¨π¨ But then there would be no more Pickle!
Luke:π
I can tell I've got a good idea for a Pickle story when I can't stop giggling as I think through the details.
I think I've figured out a concrete way to explore sets that are the same vs. sets that are different, the difference between a set and a member of a set, and how you can put together infinitely many sets if you apply some Baby Pickle logic to the task at hand.
#babypicklelogic #settheory #PickleStory
Luke is working on a math sheet that has him figuring out different ways to make $3.35.
Me: You could use one five-dollar bill, two negative one-dollar bills, and β
Luke: No! There are no negative one-dollar bills.
Me: That's how Baby Pickle would do it.
Pickle and the Bugs
A bedtime story in which Pickle fixes one bug in his function machine but soon finds a lot more!
#PickleStory #ScreenFreeCoding #Debugging #BabyPickle
https://bancosparenting.wordpress.com/?p=2576&preview=true&_thumbnail_id=2608
#babypickle #debugging #screenfreecoding #PickleStory
Luke, reading Life of Fred: What is a phone book?
This reminded me of the O(log n) phone book story on Stack Overflow. This will definitely have to become a Pickle story someday!
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2307283/what-does-olog-n-mean-exactly/2307314
Pickle and the FizzBuzz Machine
I told this story to Luke a few days after I taught him the rules of FizzBuzz. I say story, but itβs really a thinly-veiled programming exercise! Not that I had any complaints from Luke about the lack of plot; he was fully engaged in helping me design a FizzBuzz algorithm. I really like how the Pickle universe has become our playground for exploring all these fun abstract concepts . . . .
https://bancosparenting.wordpress.com/2023/02/04/pickle-and-the-fizzbuzz-machine/
#screenfreecoding #fizzbuzz #PickleStory
Oh man, I just had an idea for a Pickle story where Baby Pickle makes spaghetti code. Now I have to figure out how I can incorporate some literal spaghetti into the story! Maybe Pickle is trying to put together a spaghetti-making machine and Baby Pickle comes and messes it all up by adding a bunch of extra functions in a big tangle....
Now the babies don't need to physically put Duplos into the mayonnaise function to make a big mess β they can just put in "the set of all Duplos in the playroom" and suddenly all those Duplos get covered in mayonnaise!
Baby Pickle and the Negative Minus-One-Hundred Function
In which Baby Pickle gets himself into a pickle and then back out again, with the help of some mystery functions.
#PickleStory #tmwyk #BedtimeMath #StoryMath #NegativeM&Ms #FirstClassFunctions
#FirstClassFunctions #negativem #StoryMath #BedtimeMath #tmwyk #PickleStory
Pickle and the Arithmetic Operators
Another Pickle story involving M&Ms, negative M&Ms, and mystery functions as well as the indispensable Boolean Logic Baby Gate.
h/t to Sarah Carter for the Twos Challenge in the picture @mathequalslove
https://bancosparenting.wordpress.com/2022/11/28/pickle-and-the-arithmetic-operators/
#StoryMath #BedtimeMath #tmwyk #PickleStory
I have more learning to do but someday I will tell a #PickleStory about the pea and the sun paradox. Thank you @Uodvraxz for the comment that got me looking into it!
So what do I want to write about and why?
Most of my ideas lately have revolved around cool stuff I'm doing with my kids that I want to share with the world, whether it's #KidPower or telling a #PickleStory at bedtime.
I don't live up to my own parenting standards, and I want to get better, and I wish there were more resources available to help me with the goals I have. So at least I can write up my own experiences with the goal of finding like-minded people to learn with.
Baby Pickle and the Negative M&Ms
In this bedtime story, Baby Pickle finds out what happens when you put too few M&Ms into a subtraction function.
A fun thing about telling a story orally is that with no illustrations, you can ignore pesky implementation details, like what a function looks like or how a baby monster truck with wheels instead of hands can pick up tiny objects from the floor!
#tmwyk #PickleStory #BedtimeMath #StoryMath
https://bancosparenting.wordpress.com/2022/11/11/baby-pickle-and-the-negative-mms/
#StoryMath #BedtimeMath #PickleStory #tmwyk
Baby Pickle and the Pickle Jars
My latest mathy bedtime story featuring Pickle, Baby Pickle, the boolean-logic baby gate, a multi-level train track, and five 20-lb. jars of pickles.
https://bancosparenting.wordpress.com/2022/11/03/baby-pickle-and-the-pickle-jars/
#MathStory #tmwyk #Screen-FreeCoding #PickleStory #BedtimeMath
#BedtimeMath #PickleStory #screen #tmwyk #MathStory
#MathStory #tmwyk #Screen-FreeCoding #PickleStory
#PickleStory #screen #tmwyk #MathStory