The Fermi Box is not really a ‘game’. If you go on weekend trips with your children you can do lots of such games in the train (or car) because there are often large numbers of cars trees, animals, houses going by which easily promt the question how many of these are there during the trip, in view, in the city...
Such estimation problems are called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem and they are recommended as real life class room exercises. In Germany you can buy such exercises as a box: http://www.vpmonline.de/index.php/fermi-box_produktdetail/items/1935
Thanks. I wonder if there are more games like this.
The Fermi Box is not really a ‘game’. If you go on weekend trips with your children you can do lots of such games in the train (or car) because there are often large numbers of cars trees, animals, houses going by which easily promt the question how many of these are there during the trip, in view, in the city...