Re: Third graders and Bitcoin

Third graders? Nothing bad about teaching young students about Bitcoin, but if I remember it correctly the lessons when I was a third grader were simply multiplication and division, decimals, and a bit of fractions.

Did you really speak a lot about Bitcoin to these young children? I'm curious what you taught them.

I remember in 3rd grade, we had just learned the multiplication table and started learning simple calculations. I would be more curious than you, what do those kids know about bitcoin? Or do they only see the image of bitcoin when we are using the iPad to watch cartoons or play games? My 5 year old son also knows bitcoin every time I give them a physical bitcoin to play with, but other than that they know nothing else.
And I also want to ask OP, what do you teach kids about bitcoin, while they don't even know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide?

That's why I doubt OP's story. Third graders aren't even fully-equipped to do basic math. I understand there's the lesson about money but the point of that lesson is still basic math. How could a teacher then integrate Bitcoin to that subject?

And also, is there not a standard or approved syllabus in teaching these third graders? Can a teacher freely inject topics in a subject?

I don't doubt the OP, but I would also disagree if he taught bitcoin to those 3rd graders, they're too small, and bitcoin really isn't appropriate at that age. After all, bitcoin is money too, if we can teach them about bitcoin, we can also teach them about other ways of making money. If teaching children to earn money at an early age is beneficial, I think the education industry has applied it for many years, we don't have to wait for bitcoin to be born before we realize it.

I want everyone to know and use bitcoin because it will help bitcoin as well as ourselves. But we need to have the right educational perspective, not teaching indiscriminately knowledge unsuitable for children.