
Use Math to Practice Fairness
Clip: 4/3/2023 | 7m 42sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Omar Etman and Lily Fincher play math games and show children the importance of fair play.
Rules make games fair, and fairness makes playing fun! Join Omar Etman and Lily Fincher as they play math games fairly. Use a deck of homemade counting cards to compare numbers and play a movement match game to count sets.
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Use Math to Practice Fairness
Clip: 4/3/2023 | 7m 42sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Rules make games fair, and fairness makes playing fun! Join Omar Etman and Lily Fincher as they play math games fairly. Use a deck of homemade counting cards to compare numbers and play a movement match game to count sets.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[bright music] - Hey there, friends at home.
Me and Lily, we're in the middle of a problem.
- Yeah, the problem is that you took the last sheet of our favorite sparkly paper.
That's not fair.
- Well, I only took it because I wanted to write a letter to my grandma.
She loves when I write letters on our favorite sparkly paper.
- Well, I want you to write a letter to your grandma but what about my grandma?
She likes the sparkly paper too.
- Yeah, that's true.
Friends at home, do you see the problem?
- How can the two of us share this one piece of paper?
- Oh, I have an idea.
I remember that we got this paper from Mr. Marcus, who lives next door.
What if we just asked him for more?
- Yeah, but remember, he's in Michigan visiting his cousin.
- Okay, so we know that we can't get more paper from Mr. Marcus.
But what if we made some more?
- I love that idea.
[fun music] All done.
- Whoa, Lily.
That looks so good.
I really like all the swirls of glitter that you have.
- [Lily] Isn't it beautiful?
- It is beautiful.
But I'm a little worried that it won't fit in an envelope and that it might be hard to write on.
- Oh, I didn't think of that.
Well, maybe it can be a rug.
- Lily, I just got another idea.
So we have one sheet of sparkly paper left.
What if we just share it?
- Share it?
How would we do that?
Our grandmas don't live in the same place?
- No, no, no, we can make this one piece of paper into two.
Here, I'll show you.
I can fold it in half and crease it really good, so it's easier to tear, and then rip, we have two pieces of paper.
- Omar, you're such a problem solver.
And look, they're the same size.
Now we can both write letters to our grandmas on beautiful, sparkly paper.
Omar, I'm so happy you figured out a way we could share our last piece of sparkly paper.
Thank you for being a good friend.
- Of course, Lily.
I was just trying to be fair.
- Fair, yeah, like when we play games, we take turns.
- Yeah, that's actually what's so great about games is that they're designed to be fair.
Games have rules that make sure everyone who's playing has the same chances.
- Yeah, well, I don't always love rules but I do love games.
Do you have a game we can play?
- Lily, you know I do.
Friends at home, it's game time.
It's a card game.
It's called Who's Got More?
Let's get our materials.
We use 10 dot number cards.
Let's shuffle them first.
Then each pick five cards, but no peeking.
But wait, something's not right.
What do you think, friends at home?
Do we have the same number of cards?
- [Lily] Oh, I'm sorry.
I just got so excited to play.
Looks like I took one too many.
- [Omar] Okay, so now we have our materials ready and we have the same number of cards.
We're ready to learn how to play Who's Got More.
It's simple, on the count of three, flip a card.
Then compare the number of dots and think, Who's Got More?
Let's play.
- One, two, three, flip.
- I'll count to see.
I have one and you have one, two, three, four, five.
Five, that's more.
Five is more than one.
- One, two, three, flip.
- Okay, I got one, two, three and you got one, two, three, four.
I think four is bigger than three.
- One, two, three, flip.
- I got four again.
I have one, two, three, four and you got one, two.
Four is more than two.
- One, two, three, flip.
- [Omar] I got one and you got one, two.
Two is bigger, yeah.
- Two is more.
- One, two, three, flip.
- Let's count together.
- [Both] One, two, three, four, five.
One, two, three.
- Five is more.
I loved that game.
Omar, you're so right, rules do make games fair.
- And fairness makes play fun.
- It sure does.
- Well, you know, I've got an idea for a game and this game is about dancing.
But instead of figuring out who's got more, we're gonna figure out how to make the same number.
- Same number.
Oh, like when we had to each have the same number of cards.
- Exactly.
In this game, which I call Movement Match, pay close attention to the number of movements that I make because you're gonna have to make the same number.
Friends at home, Lily, you're gonna have to match me.
Okay, ready?
[foot banging] [whimsical music] Ready?
[hands clapping] [whimsical music] Okay, ready?
- Ready?
[hands clapping] [whimsical music] Ready?
[feet thudding] [whimsical music] - Friends at home, how do you play fairly?
How does being fair make it easier to be a good friend?
- But Omar, our letters to our grandmas.
- Oh, right.
Friends at home, we gotta run.
We gotta mail these letters.
See ya.
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