{"id":2807,"date":"2009-09-11T15:35:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T07:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2013-07-12T20:38:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T12:38:26","slug":"friday-math-movie-the-maggie-sort-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-the-maggie-sort-algorithm-2807","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie - The Maggie Sort Algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Play is a vital part of learning from day one, for all of us.<\/p>\n<p>It's sad that formal schooling often discourages play and meaningful discovery in the rush to \"cover the content\".<\/p>\n<p>Maggie enjoys what she is doing in this clip. There is no \"motivating\" test at the end - she has an appropriate challenge and she works on it until done. Her satisfaction arises from successful completion and she has some ownership for what she has achieved. <\/p>\n<p>And that's the point of games, of course. None of us mind \"hard fun\" - this gives us the motivation to work obsessively on interesting challenges. <\/p>\n<p>Maggie's father writes in the intro to this movie:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My 19 month old daughter researches sorting algorithms. The recursion appears to have dependence on a isNextLargest() function. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zybl598sK24\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-the-maggie-sort-algorithm-2807\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/09\/maggie.jpg\" alt=\"maggie\" title=\"maggie\" width=\"128\" height=\"95\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>This cute film demonstrates problem-solving, algorithmic thinking and persistence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}