Nathan’s Class

Topic:

LG: Triggers for worlds

Storytime RC

Test 41, Passage 2 — Countee Cullen

Logic Games

Test 91, Game 4 — Hotel clerks

Logical Reasoning

Test 32, Section 1, Q14 — City revenue

Test 24, Section 3, Q17 — Staff reductions

Highlights

We started class with a poll and a lengthy discussion about what triggers to look for when building worlds. Nathan outlined four main categories of triggers that can help during your setup. We can (1) place a variable as instructed by the game, (2) we can watch out for bottlenecks or “bossy” variables, (3) we can split based on big blocks of two or more variables, (4) or we can start with a conditional rule. Nathan stressed the importance of remembering that there is rarely one perfect place to start.

Nathan walked through student diagrams for this game. He found strengths and weaknesses and encouraged folks to take it one step at a time. We emphasized the importance of organization and doing one split at a time.

The passage for this class was recently covered, so please refer to this class if you would like to listen to storytime or review some of the questions with Nathan.

The LR questions were a bit on the tough side today. One relied on an understanding of the difference between relative and absolute. The other two were great examples of how awful some wrong answers can be. We emphasized the importance of slowing down and putting in the work during the passage.