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by danbst
1774 days ago
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- What was her age when you started this? - Did she have experience with board/card/pen-and-paper games before? Dice games? - What was starting typing speed and how it goes now? Do typing lessons causes frustration? - Have you noted some prior math skills? I see lessons start with strings but then move to "geometry" stuff |
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She just turned 10 when we started.
> Did she have experience with board/card/pen-and-paper games before? Dice games?
We did play https://www.thinkfun.com/products/robot-turtles/ quite often, since she was 6 or so. and we play a lot of ticket to ride, and some memory games (like Lumina). We don't play dice games though.
> What was starting typing speed and how it goes now? Do typing lessons causes frustration?
I have not actually measured the speed recently, as we use our own programs to train (she enjoys using her own programs a lot), but she is at the point that she is faster to type with 10 fingers than with 2.
> Do typing lessons causes frustration
Not at all, they are a lot of fun. I enjoy them a lot as well. Today we were using the program we wrote yesterday (https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids#day-100-basi...) and we tweaked it a bit to have 'pause/start' and she wanted to continue even after the end of the lesson.
> Have you noted some prior math skills? I see lessons start with strings but then move to "geometry" stuff
She is good in math in general, but at her age math is kindof boring. But geometry I think is fun, especially when you think of 'how do two rectangles collide', and since she plays a lot of roblox, the whole game is made of rectangles, so it is very relatable.