Hi again, sorry about my post earlier, I was anoyed with someone else and somewhat rude
...and I also have a great lack of intelligence in so many areas, so you're not allone
Here's a free and very good excersise you can do with your 3 year old (maybe even with your 2 year old.) I saw a video on youtube the other day about mental hide and seek, I can't find the link but it went something like this:
1. You're sitting in the car and tell your child, I hid your favourite toy somewhere in the house.
2. The child askes (or maybe to start off you will encourage) "Is it up stairs or down?"
3. You say up stairs.
4. Child asks, my room or yours? etc etc a very good mind building game.
Now for my logic game idea:
Say: I've got a bag of sweets (imaginary) and they're all strawberry and lemon flavoured (demonstrate with your hands)
If I pick one and it's not strawberry, then what is it? - very simple, but you can make it harder as your child becomes more familiar with the idea.
You don't have to learn formal logic to introduce the concepts of logic to your child, just think to yourself, how do we use AND, OR, IF .. THEN and NOT in every day language.
For truth tables / binary numbers you can for instance use smarties / MNM's, pick two colours like red and blue to represent True or false / 1 or 0 / on or off (don't say anything about true / false / 1 / 0 to your child, this is just a game to introduce a concept)
now say: If I only use red and blue MNM's (now it would be easier if you actually have sweeties or blocks or counters of some sort to work with) and I want to arrange a row of two MNMs, how many different rows can I build:
red red
red blue
blue red
blue blue
thats 4 different rows, now build rows of 3:
red red red
red red blue
red blue red
red blue blue
blue red red
blue red blue
blue blue red
blue blue blue
thats 8 different rows, etc etc
play this many times with many things (beads, foods, anything your child likes) and your child will learn an important concept used for example in math, electronics and programming.
If you're very patiant and trust me, you can wait for LR files, this topic is something that I have on my todo list, I'm thinking of doing a logic course with logic circuits, Venn-Diagrams, Binary notation and deductive reasoning all as child friendly as possable with images and examples for the small child, for my baby when he's older, but there's still a bunch of things I want to do first and as you know, us supermoms just don't have enough hours in the day.
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