Its history is full of weird twists and sub-plots that take us from Japan to suburban Chicago and touch on child development theories and, yes, theoretical math.
Or, more specifically, with a British mathematician who, in the late 1800s, was intrigued by the fourth dimension and how to teach disinterested children about it.
Yet it was while living in Japan that Hinton struggled to get his students to adequately wrestle with the concept of the fourth dimension.Studio of K. Yoshida in Kanazawa, Japan If that does not sound like a fun game to you, you are not alone. And those bamboo cubes never amounted to much. But years later, Hinton’s son Sebastian would recall how much fun it was to climb and swing on them.
So, as Hinton was describing his dream climbing structure, the dinner party was stacked with educators, including the superintendent of the Winnetka City Schools, Carleton Washburne. Fannin says he imagines Washburne’s eyes widening before telling Hinton, “We need to build this in the schools!” “We currently don’t have a historical plaque on it,” she says. “We just have this laminated sign that says, ‘Please do not climb on this artifact. It’s not safe.'”Hinton’s original jungle gym, pictured here in the 1930s at the Horace Mann School before it was moved to the Winnetka Historical Society.
It may be that the act of swinging and climbing in the jungle gym contains just enough risk, says Ellen Sandseter — a professor at the Department of Physical Education and Health at Norway’s Queen Maud University College, and an expert on risky play.
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