Its a talent..
However, neither Jessica or Bethan inherited my mathematical brain so maths' homework in our house is a nightmare. It usually ends up with tears, arguments and me pulling my hair out trying to explain things. It doesn't help that they seem to have changed the ways of doing things since I was in school. And yeah, I know that was a while ago
Earlier Bethan and I sat down to comparing and ordering decimals to two decimal places. She was working out less than and more than. I was trying to explain I remembered the <> by looking at the < and seeing it was like an L for less than. I drew pictures and everything.But she just looked at me and said
No mummy, crocodiles
Crocodiles?
The crocodiles like to eat the big juicy numbers so his mouth opens wide to the big number
Ok.....Crocodiles. But crocodiles worked, she flew through them.
Double whammy night - Jess had maths as well. Simple revision she should have known, grids and mapping. But no, she sat there looking "bored" as only a 13 year old can. Knowing she knew it and just wanted me to do it for her so she could go on MSN, I tried to instill interest. I likened it to a treasure map.
Big sigh....
Then inspiration hit. If crocodiles can work for a 10 year old, what can work for a 13 year old?
BOYS - CUTE BOYS....
Ok, I said, the grid is a map of school, each co-ordinate is a cute boy - Go find the boys!!
I'm a bloody genius sometimes...
10 comments:
Loved this entry! The "cute boys" inspiration cracked me up.
I remember the crocodiles from my school days, too!
The way I keep the less-than/greater-than symbols straight is to remember that the "less-than" symbol looks like a scrunched-up letter "L" (as in Less-than).
You had crocodiles?
I don't remember any crocodiles..
LOL, trust you to fix the screwed-up HTML and reveal the rest of your post about the "L", rendering my comment, uh, redundant :-P
Well, if it wasn't crocodiles it was definitely something related to some creature "eating" the big numbers. It never worked for me, though, I've stuck with the "L" to this day...
Yeah, well you shouldn't be such a geek and have a feed reader
I edited it after like 3 seconds of posting and you still beat me
wait, why would crocodiles prepfer big numbers. why wouldn't they like small ones?
wait, why would crocodiles prepfer big numbers. why wouldn't they like small ones?
LMAO!!!!
If it wasn't for this feed reader, I'd hardly ever remember to come to this blog ;-)
I dunno, cos there bigger, more meat perhaps?
Size does matter you know
i had crocodiles too! no cute boy grids though.. which is probably why i threw my pencil across the room every night, frustrated with math...
Now Im feeling deprived because Im the only one that never had crocodiles..
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