#72 Bring Variety

Bring Variety

Make a grid out of empty egg cartons. Use a collection of beads, buttons, shells, rocks, acorns to play this game. For example, you can create a rule using the number of beads and their color in the rainbow order.

Take the game into the third dimension! Build simple structures out of unit blocks or interlocking LEGO®-type blocks. Or use yarn to suspend drawings or objects.

Play the same guessing game with a made-up number function with two inputs. Label the grid with numbers 1, 2, 3… along two sides. Don’t tell the function to the child. Apply the function to find values in each cell that the child asks you to reveal. For example, if the function multiplies numbers and then adds 2, the cell in the third column and fourth row will have 14 in it, because 3x4+2=14