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Posted on 10/15/2005 7:13:08 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Heh...yeah. They are good boys. And math, as you know, is my biggest fear. I'm scared to death of it. So I always make sure my blood sugar is good and such when I'm dealing with them and math! LOL
My mom's method of helping me with math was grabbing me by the hair and shaking till my brains rattled.
Well that's not very helpful. Math isn't scary! I hope the boys don't see you scared of it... you're wise to try to face it calmly...
Does teaching the boys help you at all? Surely they're not to hard math yet? Just arithmatic, not algebra or anything?
Well, they know I have problems with it...I've explained the situation with them, especially Matthew.
See, when I was a kid they had me so extremely doped up on antihistamines because I had so many allergies. I mean major allergies. I had mild hearing loss even before the time I lost my hearing just because of all the ear infections.
So between being sick all the time and then doped up the rest of the time, there were a couple of years there...3-4th grade...that I just about totally missed. I could keep up with everything except math. (Honestly, I remember my mom medicating me with Benadryl...tons of it. To this DAY I can't take a Benedryl without it knocking me out cold and I even have a sinus spray antihistamine that I take now that I can't drive after I take it. I only take it at night!)
So Matthew knows all of this.
Yes! I have learned so much teaching him and it's great because he celebrates with me! We'll be sitting together working on something, trying to figure it out and it's so much fun with it dawns on both of us! I'm doing sixth grade math for the first time in my life. Ha ha!
"My mom's method of helping me with math was grabbing me by the hair and shaking till my brains rattled."
Personally I never found that helped much. Differential Equations sometimes did that to me anyway :P
Heh heh...
You know...I made it all the way through school and college without knowing how to divide 2 digit divisors into a dividend. No kidding. I have no idea how I did it, but eventually they just let us use a calculator.
I learned last year helping Matthew. I tell you that was a big event in my life and Matthew was so tickled for me!
PS: I didn't know what divisor, dividend or quotient was either until I started teaching Matthew.
My mom said she learned more about history from teaching us than ever in school. She did learn math in school, though, and was able to help me until I was 14 and hit trigonometry. Then she made me slog through it. If I didn't work hard enough she threatened to make me ask this other kid we knew for help. He was a math genius and a whole year younger than me so I was determined not to have to ask him for help. Hehe!
And then once I was 15 they could send me to community college for math and everyone was happier.
He made a 100% on his math test, btw.
Good for him!
The tests are really pointless in my opinion...I do them just in case someone wants to come in and see more evidence of his work...tests are good examples to show.
But tests are commonly used to check for comprehension...right? To make sure a student is "getting it". Well, I know Matthew is getting it on a day to day basis, because we don't go on till he does!
So the tests are just a formality. And it's a good thing for him to be used to taking.
The NaNo folks do NOT need to sing Happy Birthday. Please.
Well, I spent three hours at the driver's license place, but after that time, they'd gotten from 807 to 822, and my number is 907. That is just absolutely astounding inefficiency, in my book. I've complained about the DMV back home, but they had WAY more people working, had people complete a lot more forms ahead of time, and even at the worst, I never waited more than an hour or so. Not to mention I gather they don't even GIVE you your license here...you have to wait and have it mailed. After all that.
I'm planning to stop by again after I get back from Loveland. It probably goes against their rules to leave the building, but if I can sneak in and if my number hasn't been up yet...I'm going to try. This is absolutely ridiculous.
Afternoon folkses... [sip]
Airport ping... anybody home...? [sip]
Been pretty quite around these parts...
Seems so...
This trip... I brought the entire LOTREE dvd's... I think I'm gonna start it on the flight down and then use the next couple evenings to see them all again.
I'm home, I'm home!
Had to go to class and then walk back, though. It does get quiet afternoons here.
I've another 20 mins or so... then I'll be on da plane. Going to SF once again. Just enough time for *one* more beer...
It comes in pints?
Is one enough, if you're going to SF?
Not one.... one *more*. The distinction is not trivial. :-)
[sip]
that's really scary... :-)
Have a good flight. :~D
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