someonewhoisnot
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We all learn to count natively to 10 when we are toddlers. Most of us don't even remember how we learned it, we just did and that is the way it is for all of us. All parents teach their kids to count to 10, but what if I was to teach my child to count to 16 natively. (My child could always learn later in life how to count to 10 or convert between base 16 and base 10 and vice-versa).
Just looking for some opinions from experienced parents so as to have some handy and perhaps critical parenting strategies in case I become a father in the future. Is this count-teaching a good idea or am I missing something here?
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To those of you who are not familiar with this common number system:
Hexadecimal is a number system with 16 discrete symbols including 0. The numbers are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F then it rolls over to "ten" 10...
Example: Buying 3F chocolates is the same as saying I want to buy 63 Chocolates.
Purpose: To teach my child to be efficient at counting and maths - Hexadecimal is more efficient than Decimal as its powers of 2 counting, and is easier to visualise than powers of 10 with the more inefficient decimal system.
Just looking for some opinions from experienced parents so as to have some handy and perhaps critical parenting strategies in case I become a father in the future. Is this count-teaching a good idea or am I missing something here?
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To those of you who are not familiar with this common number system:
Hexadecimal is a number system with 16 discrete symbols including 0. The numbers are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F then it rolls over to "ten" 10...
Example: Buying 3F chocolates is the same as saying I want to buy 63 Chocolates.
Purpose: To teach my child to be efficient at counting and maths - Hexadecimal is more efficient than Decimal as its powers of 2 counting, and is easier to visualise than powers of 10 with the more inefficient decimal system.