<\/span><\/h2>\nEncourage your child to write out their morning algorithm, or the algorithm for an even simpler task, like brushing their teeth or eating cereal. Without knowing it, they\u2019ll be exploring important computational concepts like repetition (brush bottom left teeth five times), sequencing (put cereal in bowl and then put in milk), and conditional logic (if the bowl is empty, stop eating).<\/p>\n
Challenge your child to be as specific with the instructions as possible. Computers don\u2019t understand your intentions, so if you don\u2019t specify that you need to get out the bowl first, you\u2019ll end up pouring milk on the floor!<\/p>\n
In math class, kids learn about prime numbers and how to determine if a number is prime. But with large numbers, this is very difficult! For the number 493, you’d have to try over 15 calculations to\u00a0learn that 493 is not prime (17 * 29 = 493). Kids\u00a0can write an algorithm in Tynker to determine if a number is prime.<\/p>\n\n\n