Regardless that there are quotes supposedly from Richard Feynman and Albert Einstein throughout the Web about the concept we don’t really perceive one thing except we will educate it to a toddler, neither of them actually mentioned something like that.

However, I believe there’s nonetheless a variety of worth to that concept,  and the massively in style subReddit “Clarify Like I’m 5” appears to point that a variety of different individuals agree.

Periodically, to check out the concept and to additionally present a change-of-pace in my IB Concept of Information lessons, I ask college students to current advanced subjects so {that a} 5 year-old may perceive it.

I ask them to look on-line to get an thought of a five-year-old’s vocabulary (I usually inform them they’ll stretch it to a seven-year-old), and that they’ve to make use of accessible phrases in each their slides and of their oral presentation.  Additionally they must create slides that they suppose would look fascinating to a toddler.

Then, in small teams, their listeners are inspired to ask questions that they suppose a toddler would ask (however they’ll’t act like kids).

These actions usually go fairly effectively.  Right here’s an instance of a current presentation by a bunch on the “Strategies of Utilized Mathematicians” (I’ve been given permission to share it): Strategies & Instruments in Math (in downloadable PowerPoint type) and right here, in embeddable Google Slides type: