My friends, all Gen Xers are having one HELL of a time helping their kids with homework these days. We knew that 7+6 is 13 from memorizing flash cards, not because those numbers had anything to do with the number 10.
You don't count caterpillar legs on Tuesdays, use a box method on Thursdays, and discuss how stupid Roman's were vs the genius Arabs who invented zero on Friday's in your day job?
“I can tutor your kid so long as it is not common core. I can do math, but I can’t do obama-math.”
-me when speaking to potential clients for my tutoring side job.
My friends, all Gen Xers are having one HELL of a time helping their kids with homework these days. We knew that 7+6 is 13 from memorizing flash cards, not because those numbers had anything to do with the number 10.
You don't count caterpillar legs on Tuesdays, use a box method on Thursdays, and discuss how stupid Roman's were vs the genius Arabs who invented zero on Friday's in your day job?
Funnjy thing is, the arabs didnt even invent 'arabic numerals'. They stole them from the Indians!
Pulled my kid after half year of common crap kindergarten math it's insane