Instead of the traditional sharing after a long break, today we began another First Year Math tradition... Mathematicians Are People, Too. It's a book that introduces you to a variety of ancient (and not so ancient!) mathematicians and their ideas/theories via stories. We've started today, and it will continue at the beginning of each week from now... until we're done! I'll put up more information on the book and our process soon.
Today was Thales! (That's THAY-LEEEEZ!) ;) And we've only made it through part way of the story. We paused to have a talk about some of the concepts in the story... in particular the idea of a "cubit."
In fact, your child's homework tonight is to find out what a cubit is!
