|Roman Numerals: The Basics: Mikey's Adventure I of 5

"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 centurion's pet baby lion from the gladiators and help Mikey get back home!  He has to learn the Roman numerals characters and the rules for repeating them in order to unlock the cage and then unlock the box which contains ruby slippers Mikey uses to go home! 

It's part of a 4 part series on learning Roman numbers. In this part, we learn the characters and the rules that will get your learner started on Roman numerals.  We stop at the perfect spot after 25 minutes where your learner can recognize and repeat Roman numeral characters.  

Students love this class and parents are inspired enough to leave feedback.  One parent writes: "Wonderful class. Teacher Kitty puts a lot of time and creativity into her classes. My son learned so much."

After this class, your learner will be ready for another 25-minute class which covers part 2 of Mickey's journey.  On Part 2, your learner will learn how to mix the characters and be able to count to 10 in Roman numerals.

Then in part 3, Mikey and the gladiator return the baby lion to Africa while mastering all of 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.

In this series, learners go beyond the basic Roman numeral skills which are the characters and the simple use of repeating numbers and adding and subtracting characters to the right or left according to the rules.  In this part, they review those rules and then add the rules that guide when I, X, V, L, C, and D are and are not allowed to be added and subtracted.

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? Your learner might be the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates! Your 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 trying 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.