|Roman Numerals: Putting Roman Numbers Together- Mikey's Adventure Part 2 of 4

"Part 2 just as GREAT as part 1! Can’t wait for part 3!! Thanks Ms.Kitty!! Class is full of Energy!!"  - Catherine

"Thomas loved the class. It was easy to understand and there was a fun story to solve!" - Susan

"I knew my son is interested in Roman numerals, and I signed him up without asking him first. He said that he already knew basically all of the material covered in this class but that it was still "super fun." To me, that says a lot about the energy of the teacher and how well she motivates and engages students." - Julie

"Wonderful class. Teacher Kitty puts a lot of time and creativity into her classes. My son learned so much." - Ms. B

"The little characters and pictures were awesome! I loved how you asked  for answers in terms of whether it was "legal or illegal." We had talked about Roman Numerals and he asked if C was for 100 since century starts with the letter C. I said we could Google it..and then I saw your class on Outschool. It was so cute and adorable with the little scroll and the Gladiator and everything."  -- Karen

"Really good teacher, and we immediately signed up for the next two classes in the series."  - Maria

"Great and informative class with a very energetic and friendly teacher! Definitely taking part 2 and 3 !!"  --Catherine



Save the Roman gladiator's pet baby lion from another gladiator who has trapped the "kitten" in a cage that's teetering left and right.  All he has to do is lean either to the right or left!   And guess what!   That's all we need to do in Roman numerals to add and subtract them.... lean to the right!  lean to the left!  

We learn the rules of mixing Roman numerals in this lesson.  

First, we will review what we learned in lesson 1, then we will learn the basic rules for mixing characters. We stop at the perfect spot after 25 minutes where your learner can count most numbers comfortably.  

After this class, your learner will be ready for another 25-minute class which covers part 3 of Mickey's journey.  

In Part 3, your learner will master these rules and the more complex rules that will allow your student to claim this skill forever!

In part 4, we take all of the rules and review them and drill them, this time teaching your learner how to think for himself/herself and build larger and more complex numbers and decipher them easily.

Learners go beyond the basic Roman numeral skills which are the characters and the simple use of repeating numbers. In this lesson, they will learn adding and subtracting characters to the right or left according to the rules. 

Math comes alive for young learners when they begin to see the logic and games in the patterns that numbers make.  Exploding that fascination while they are school-age can get them to open up to foundational skills for strong computing. Who knows? You learner might be the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates! You kid can develop math skills. All it takes is a can-do attitude-- a confidence that says, every problem has a solution, and I know how to find it.

A math concept often overlooked in our busy lives is the translation of Roman Numerals.  Have you ever seen logos for the Olympics or Superbowl and found yourself gritting your teeth while try to decipher those V's and X's and M's?  Or maybe you're like most people and you look the other way.  It's especially hard when you want to know when an old movie was made and the credits say MCMLXXIV!  

Don't you wish someone pulled you aside early in life and gave you that extra lesson on this?  Let's do that for your learner! Get your child a leg up early in life!

The goal for this class is for the learner to be able to list and give values for the Roman numeral characters, identify the rules for finding the value of a Roman numeral, and convert numbers from our number system into Roman numerals.  

We'll accomplish this with fun approaches to internalizing what the values of each letter means. We will then learn and apply rules for converting numbers from Roman to our number system and visa-versa.  If the group skill level permits, the group will begin to consider what like of list of logical steps can be made for converting Roman numerals. These steps are building blocks for computing if that's something your child might be interested in.  I offer a more advance Roman numerals class under the Tech and Coding subject area that assumes a more base knowledge of Roman numerals and maps the student's math knowledge to a procedural list that can be taken to code. 

Computing and coding is only one way to use mathematics and Roman numerals.  Your student will be more confident in math skills through training on Roman numerals.