Learning the BOOOOLLL - BEEE-OKKK Math Concept ala Noah Isaiah

About.com defines tactile or kinesthetic learners as those who learn through experiencing or doing things. For this reason, tactile learners may become bored more quickly than other students while listening to a class lecture. My 6 year-old boy fits right in this learning style and it may sound a bit tangent but he is also a big fan of Angry Birds.

More often, he finds it quite a challenge to sit down for longer periods of time to accomplish a worksheet. Learning a new concept is another story. Take our Math lesson for one about ODD and EVEN numbers. What to do with this poor lil boy whose wired at learning outside the box, that is, outside your conventional tools for learning like textbooks, pencil, paper, chalkboard.

One morning, he came up with this brilliant idea of how to easily remember the odd and even numbers. Now, I'm pretty sure that most teaching Moms like me encounter the same predicament with their kids; making them remember their left and right hands, the letters b and d, and their odd and even numbers seamlessly.

"Mom, let's just make EVEN numbers BEEE-OKKK and ODD numbers BOOOOLLL."
"What's a BOOOOLLL and a BEEEOK, my son?"
"BOOOOLLL-BEEE-OKKK, BOOOOLLL-BEEE-OKKK...that's what the Angry Birds would say every time they make a score in the game against those nasty pigs! . How about I say BOOOOLLL for odd numbers and BEEE-OKKK for even numbers! Odd and even are boring..."

You know our children's simplistic way of thinking often makes a lot of sense in solving challenges like this one. Only we pay closer attention to what they're saying.

True enough, this lil boy learned his odd and even numbers in no time just by saying BOOOOLLL for odd numbers and BEEE-OKKK for even numbers. BOOOOLLL - BEEE-OKKK, and each time he does it right, he would go bouncing like Tigger and cheer himself and laugh his heart out. We all had fun learning the BOOOOLLL and the BEEE-OKKK that day. It was indeed an engaging activity. BOOOLLL - BEEE-OKKK...BOOOOLLL - BEEE-OKKK... One Math concept down, and that's without the tears!

BEEE-OKKK ARE NUMBERS THAT END WITH 0, 2, 4, 6, 8
BOOOLLL ARE NUMBERS THAT END WITH 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

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