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[Snoopy]

Today I shall be mainly "Putting the magazine to bed" and teaching small boys the mysteries of Fractions and the conversion thereof into Decimals.

So another fun packed day ahead 

oooh, can you teach me too - I was off sick that week... 

I am having to reteach myself as in my day we dealt with £s, shillings and pence, Imperial measures and the like. Remembering to divide by 10 rather than 12, that 1000 metres = 1 kilometre rather that 1760 yards making a mile etc means I have to stop and think things through rather than simply relying on hard learned mental skills that still come automatically. I know I should have "kept up" but I do recall a teacher once remarking that metric measurements were "only used by foreigners".
I do know how many chains make a furlong and still measure land in rods, poles and perches which I have to say completely baffled a local farmer when we were discussing the size of allotment plots that we could get out of one of his fields.
Hectares mean nothing to me but I can picture an acre and a cricket pitch should be 22 yards long!

[tel]

Yes to that.

[Nick]

http://themathgames.com/   

[Snoopy]

http://themathgames.com/   

Thanks but I still have the principles to explain get through their thick skulls!

I also have to mark the work and show them where they are going wrong 


One is tackling the Woodland Site, the other writing "a report" for his mother.




PS I also have to contend with the THW who tells me that I do it all wrong! .... I fvcking know methods have changed but the right answer is still the right answer by whatever route and the wrong answer is still bloody wrong!

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

http://themathgames.com/   

Thanks but I still have the principles to explain get through their thick skulls!

I also have to mark the work and show them where they are going wrong 


One is tackling the Woodland Site, the other writing "a report" for his mother.




PS I also have to contend with the THW who tells me that I do it all wrong! .... I fvcking know methods have changed but the right answer is still the right answer by whatever route and the wrong answer is still bloody wrong!

No help to man nor beast but I was on the 'cusp' when this was going on.  I did pounds shillings and pence, gallons and the rest then went to a school that had wooden play/learning bricks, the name of which escapes me, which was metric.

I was confusulated to say the least.  The wooden bricky things were good for making toy houses tho a bit like Lego without the bumpy bits.

[Snoopy]

[tel]

My sister had to use them, first year to do so.

[Snoopy]

I don't understand them but SWWLTBO, being 12 years my junior, used them at school.
She is also conversant with the use of a slide rule ~ summat I never got to grips with, but then with a research chemist for a father she would know about such things .... he was never without a slide rule in his jacket pocket.

[tel]

I did the first 3 years at my second school doing the usual trad maths, then suddenly in the 4th form we were told that we would be doing modern maths for our GCE. So a whole load of new/alien stuff crammed into 2 years!

Boolean algebra, skewing, what fun.

Oh and I passed the GCE.

[Snoopy]

I left school in 1963 and since then have never used any algebra. What a waste of time that was.

[tel]

Learning different number systems (binary, hex etc) did help when I stumbled into computing.

[Nick]

I hated maths  

But I can still do mental arithmetic involving farthings  

Anyhoo, off out to buy a new suit, like

[Darwins Selection]

Anyhoo, off out to buy a new suit, like

 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

  Today I will mainly be unpacking boxes.

[Nick]

Well, I got my nice new suit, like.