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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Your job is to move apples from one bin to another. You pick up the first one and set it in the other bin, and say "zero."?

[–] spikespaz 9 points 3 months ago

There's another way to think about it which I actually use. Look in the empty bin and say "zero", then move an apple and say "one".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

When playing games with the kids, we start at 0 being the position you are currently in, then count from there.

e.g. in snakes and ladders, if you are on spot 30 and roll a 5, tap spot 30 and say "zero", then spot 31 is "one" etc.. till you are at spot 35 saying "five".

Teaches the kids about zero and avoids miss counts from the younger ones counting their current position as "one"