What is Runs?

Runs are how many times something happens in a row without stopping.

Imagine you're playing a game where you have to keep jumping on a trampoline. Every time you jump up and land back on the trampoline, that's one jump. If you do five jumps all together without falling off, that means you had 5 runs of jumping.

Like a Streak of Jumping

If you fall off the trampoline after two jumps, your run stops there. But if you keep going and make three more jumps before stopping, that’s another run, this time with 3 jumps.

So, every time you start over again, that's a new run. It's like when you're playing tag: each time you get tagged and then start running again, that’s a new run of running!

Runs help us count how long or how hard something keeps happening, not just the total number, but how many times it happened in one go!

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Examples

  1. A basketball player makes 6 shots in a row, that's a run!
  2. Flipping a coin and getting heads five times in a row is a run.
  3. You eat breakfast every morning for a month, that's a run of consistency.

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