{"id":18762,"date":"2013-03-19T20:29:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T00:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=18762"},"modified":"2013-03-19T20:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T00:49:31","slug":"colors-and-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=18762","title":{"rendered":"Colors and Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got a tweet that made me prouder than I’ve EVER been of my Prime Factorization Sweater<\/a>, and that’s saying a lot.<\/p>\n

The tweet was from @milesmac, Miles MacFarlane, a teacher, with the words, “#LeilaN students deciphered @Sonderbooks Prime Factorization Sweater – Now making own code #7Oaks”<\/p>\n

Here’s the picture that accompanied it. Even by the backs of their heads, you can tell those are engaged kids!<\/p>\n

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Yes! That’s<\/em> what it’s about! Mr. MacFarlane, you made my day!<\/p>\n

And the timing is lovely. Next week, at my own City of Fairfax Regional Library, I’m doing a program I’m calling “Colors and Codes” where we’re going to do exactly that. I’ll wear the sweater (or maybe my prime factorization t-shirt<\/a> and bring the sweater. And the scarf<\/a>). I’ll show them how we can assign each letter of the alphabet a number from 1 to 26. We’ll start with a factorization code, but move on to things like Base 6 or Binary. And I’m going to have foam shapes for them to make crafts with codes in colors or shapes.<\/p>\n

Yay! See, we don’t have to make<\/em> Math fun! Math is<\/em> fun!<\/p>\n

Tweet<\/a>