Objectives
There are three main objectives in this activity, they are to improve students':
- Programming skills (STEM)
- Mental arithmetic skills
- Ability to design and execute a mathematical investigation
Vocabulary
| Mathematics |
Coding |
- Order of operations
- Approximate
- Estimate
- Random Sample
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- Request
- Wait
- RandSamp
- Dispat
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About the Lesson
Watch a Lily Serna in action
This activity goes beyond basic programming. Once the students have finished writing a program to simulate the Numbers game, they consider questions such as: "How many points is an extra number worth?" or "How many points is extra time worth or other mathematical operations such as factorial, square-root or square?" Students conduct an investigation into such points, in the meantime, they are constantly building their mental arithmetic skills!