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Here's the [[http://www.homeschoolmath.net/worksheets/fraction-decimal.php][fraction worksheets] site Carolyn J found.


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 Now I don't feel so bad.

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Of course, this provides a golden opportunity to climb back up on my Schools Aren't Doing Their Job and While We're on the Subject, What's With The Achievement Gap, Anyway? soapbox. Christian's schools sound dreadful, and I'm sure they were dreadful.
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<		 He also said his dad was great at math, and I'm sure Christian would have been great (or good), too, if he'd had half a chance. I've been threatening to sit him down and teach him math along with Christopher. What he's really interested in, though, are the Greek and Latin roots of words. So I should probably give him my copy of Vocabulary from Classical Roots by Norma Fifer & Nancy Flowers, since it's going to be a long time before I get back to the classical roots of vocabulary, if ever.
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>		 He also said his dad was great at math, and I'm sure Christian would have been great (or good), too, if he'd had half a chance. I've been threatening to sit him down and teach him math along with Christopher. What he's really interested in, though, are the Greek and Latin roots of words. So I should probably give him my copy of Vocabulary from Classical Roots by Norma Fifer & Nancy Flowers, since it's going to be a long time before I get back to the classical roots of vocabulary, if ever.

Gauss Shmauss

Tonight I showed Christian the Gauss-in-3rd-grade problem, which we both thought was pretty cool. But then we got all balled up because when we added the natural numbers 1 to 50, the answer we got (1275) was way less than the answer we got adding 1 thru 100 (5050). Apparently we both were thinking the sum should be half as big since we had half as many natural numbers to add....which is A) wrong and B) demoralizing.
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I am nerdier than 77% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!

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Christian is a 6'4" black guy from Yonkers who doesn't like math. A 6'4" good looking black guy from Yonkers, I might add, with dreadlocks. I think I speak for many when I say that, prior to 15 minutes ago, if you had asked me to close my eyes and Think of a Nerd, I would have seen a person who looked something more like this.

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Apart from the fact that he doesn't like math, that is.


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Now I don't feel so bad.

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Gauss Story
Carl Friedrich Gauss (painting)


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 I am nerdier than 77% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!

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 He also said his dad was great at math, and I'm sure Christian would have been great (or good), too, if he'd had half a chance. I've been threatening to sit him down and teach him math along with Christopher. What he's really interested in, though, are the Greek and Latin roots of words. So I should probably give him my copy of Vocabulary from Classical Roots by Norma Fifer & Nancy Flowers, since it's going to be a long time before I get back to the classical roots of vocabulary, if ever.

Gauss Shmauss

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I think number sense is a real thing (I say that because I get the sense some non-fuzzy types may feel number sense is yet another constructivist distraction, like collecting data & laying odds on getting a 4 or a 5 when you toss a number cube). I sometimes wonder if my own number sense has budged an inch since I started all this.


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 He also said his dad was great at math, and I'm sure Christian would have been great (or good), too, if he'd had half a chance. I've been threatening to sit him down and teach him math along with Christopher. What he's really interested in, though, are the Greek and Latin roots of words. So I should probably give him my copy of Vocabulary from Classical Roots by Norma Fifer & Nancy Flowers, since it's going to be a long time before I get back to the classical roots of vocabulary, if ever.

Gauss Shmauss

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I think number sense is a real thing (I say that because I get the sense some non-fuzzy types may feel number sense is yet another constructivist distraction, like collecting data & laying odds on getting a 4 or a 5 when you toss a number cube). I sometimes wonder if my own number sense has budged an inch since I started all this.


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This is unbelievable.

Christian, who works with Jimmy & Andrew (and is a surrogate big brother to Christopher) just took the nerd test.

He got a 77:

23% scored higher (more nerdy), and
77% scored lower (less nerdy).

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Mid-Level Nerd. Wow, it takes a lot of hard nerdy practice to reach this level.



My nerd stereotypes are now undergoing massive, rapid, cascading revision.

Christian is a 6'4" black guy from Yonkers who doesn't like math. A 6'4" good looking black guy from Yonkers, I might add, with dreadlocks. I think I speak for many when I say that, prior to 15 minutes ago, if you had asked me to close my eyes and Think of a Nerd, I would have seen a person who looked something more like this.

So now I'm stricken with guilt. Just why, exactly, was I thinking Christian would be less nerdy than me?

Apart from the fact that he doesn't like math, that is.

I should have seen it coming when he knew what 'cracked software' was. He explained it to Christopher & me, and we still don't know.

Of course, this provides a golden opportunity to climb back up on my Schools Aren't Doing Their Job and While We're on the Subject, What's With The Achievement Gap, Anyway? soapbox. Christian's schools sound dreadful, and I'm sure they were dreadful.

He also said his dad was great at math, and I'm sure Christian would have been great (or good), too, if he'd had half a chance. I've been threatening to sit him down and teach him math along with Christopher. What he's really interested in, though, are the Greek and Latin roots of words. So I should probably give him my copy of Vocabulary from Classical Roots by Norma Fifer & Nancy Flowers, since it's going to be a long time before I get back to the classical roots of vocabulary, if ever.

Gauss Shmauss

Tonight I showed Christian the Gauss-in-3rd-grade problem, which we both thought was pretty cool. But then we got all balled up because when we added the natural numbers 1 to 50, the answer we got (1275) was way less than the answer we got adding 1 thru 100 (5050). Apparently we both were thinking the sum should be half as big since we had half as many natural numbers to add....which is A) wrong and B) demoralizing.

I think number sense is a real thing (I say that because I get the sense some non-fuzzy types may feel number sense is yet another constructivist distraction, like collecting data & laying odds on getting a 4 or a 5 when you toss a number cube). I sometimes wonder if my own number sense has budged an inch since I started all this.

I am nerdier than 77% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!

-- CatherineJohnson - 22 Jul 2005

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