Do you know a young person?

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

Other potential answers:

Raphael, Archimedes, Pythagoras, Joan of Arc, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Pocahontas ...

I can guess, but I'd like to know what answers younger people come up with.

Who have they heard of?

Florence Nightingale?

Alan Turing?

Clara Schumann?

[scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz]

@ColinTheMathmo I am pretty sure my six year old hasn't heard of most of these people... yet

[truenorthspice@mastodon.world]

@ColinTheMathmo

What's wrong with choosing him? He invented jazz.

[orrickle@sfba.social]

@ColinTheMathmo as long as they don’t ask me about famous
Musicians after 2000

[truenorthspice@mastodon.world]

@orrickle

lol. Same.

@ColinTheMathmo

[joopdelfijn@mstdn.social]

@ColinTheMathmo I might ask my children, they were born after 2000. Will take some time. BTW, I'm from the Netherlands.

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

@TrueNorthSpice Nothing! I'm just shocked that a youngster would know them.

Also impressed and pleased.

[orrickle@sfba.social]

@ColinTheMathmo my 8 yo grand kid Babe Ruth

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

@Scmbradley Has your six-year-old heard of *any* "old famous" people?

[truenorthspice@mastodon.world]

@ColinTheMathmo
yeah, I felt the same.

(sorry, the 'weary' emoji threw me 'off'...I misunderstood your reaction. Thanks for clarifying)

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

Michelangelo?
Rodin?
Turner?
Ramanujan?

[dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz]

@ColinTheMathmo
Hey, the rest of us without kid contact could speculate a lot, too, but you told us not to.

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

@TrueNorthSpice That's not intended to be a "Weary" emoji ... it's a "Shocked Kitty"

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

@dougmerritt Feel free to speculate about what kids might know. Just mark it as such.

[wynke@mendeddrum.org]

@ColinTheMathmo I'll see if I can get a few names out of my teen tomorrow. (There are a few I know she knows though. At least two Dutch painters - Rembrandt and van Gogh.)

[scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz]

@ColinTheMathmo he knows about queen Victoria. He might have heard of Darwin? I'll ask him tomorrow who he knows about from olden times.

[truenorthspice@mastodon.world]

@ColinTheMathmo

At first I thought it was a shocked cat- looking at it, that makes sense, right?!
But my cursor happened to touch it and "weary cat" popped up---the same just now occurred when I went back and tried again.
Something is "off kilter" in Fediverse...or my computer.....

[colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz]

Margot Fonteyn?
Rudolf Nureyev?
Mikhail Baryshnikov?
Charlie Chaplin?
Fred Astaire?
Ginger Rogers?
Cary Grant?
Marilyn Monroe?

Who have kids heard of?

[dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz]

@ColinTheMathmo
*I* don't know who Margot Fonteyn is. (the others are as familiar as expected).

[pigworker@types.pl]

@ColinTheMathmo I used to set an exercise to sort a variety of events into chronological order. They would mostly be events in the history of computing, but with a few other bits and pieces, to keep people grounded. The latter tended to be a mixture of incidents of social progress and incidents of appalling and unaccounted-for evil.