I am pleased that the Du Bois Project's first Langston Girls Math Club was a success. Four girls attended, three African American girls and an asian girl. It was led by a high school senior who has been helping he Du Bois Project as a coach for over a year.
Because it is a fifteen minute walk from the high school to the middle school and the high school gets out slightly later than the middle school, I had club's attention for fifteen minutes. One of the two sixth grade African-American girls asked if they could do KenKens. And, yes, I am the one who introduced her to KenKens in an earlier Du Bois Math Club. Soon all four of them were zipping through KenKens as quickly as I could pass them out to them. I made them work their way up from the easiest KenKens. But nonetheless, there made nice progress.
I am thinking of using this fifteen minute window next week to give these girls a chance to work on larger, harder KenKens together. I will tell them that they are only allowed to place a number in a square if they can convince the other girls that that number is the only one that can go there. I don't know if this will work, but I am excited to give it a try.
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