Our Kids

Today we went for our first outing with our new homeschool group. It was a science coop and I did not know what to expect. We got there and there was a good range of kids with lots of them in early elementary. We did a probability exercise where we each got a container of coins and we flipped them 20 times and recorded how many head and how many tails. Then we each created a bar graph of our results and then of the group as a whole. The girls like the shaking, counting and writing of numbers and even got in on the bar graph but that is where it ended for them. It was fun though. I was surprised that after about 10 flips they wanted to actually write down the data for heads and tails. They did really well, I could recognize 90 percent of the numbers they wrote. The main thing is that they wanted to write them I was not making them so I am deducing that they were enjoying the experiment.