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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 404217" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>I'm not sure which I'd rather address first - the fractions or the infraction.....(tapping chin with finger.....long dramatic pause.....exhale) </p><p> </p><p>Okay first the fractions, for the sake of my nephew. I struggled with math my entire life. I HATED IT. Numbers do not like me. I'm sure of it. Even the first time I played a scratch off ticket? Everyone else matched at least 2 numbers and myself? Oh I got the worlds only ticket that matched none. My first license plate in the state of SC? XXX - 666 - I mean come ON. (I did ask for a different plate for personal reasons). Then there was the time most recently taking a test on Thursday that my literal world depended on me knowing if the number was a 4 or a 3, and I kept seeing the number 4 backwards and couldn't tell you what the number was. The eyes see it, the brain asks; WHAT IS IT? THINK HARD what is that? I finally blurted out FOUR and saved my bacon, but it was scary. So before I chose a career as a trucker, I was a bookkeeper. Yeah - go figure that one. </p><p> </p><p>I quit math in the 7th grade, and chose to take 2 majors instead. What I squeeked by with was dysgraphia. I thought I squeeked by with mild mental retardation. My entire life - I never EVER thought I was the slightest bit smart. Clever perhaps, but not smart. My sister? Lord help us all. Her IQ is in the genius range - so by comparison I did look like Forest Gump. (However I will add - I have a personality - neah) Moving on.....</p><p>I did not realize that I WAS smart - quite smart actually until I was in my thirties and a woman who was trying to help me with math was showing me a problem and said "Oh you don't get it?" and I nearly crawled out of my chair. She said "Huh, okay then...let me see if I can explain it differently so you can understand it. I have three children and not ONE of them learned math the same way." Her oldest son - an applied mathematics professor at the age of 21 - USC. Yeah - grab that! So when she said what she said and I was allowed to sit there and NOT be stupid, but be told not everyone learns the same - that it may NOT be me - that it may be HOW I was taught? WOW - what a difference. See Svehghandi - I don't know if I like math so much - but what I can tell you is that I don't like the 1+1 = aspect. I like 1+ ? = 2.....Give me the answer and let me work it backwards. Explain to me WHY it works the way it does backwards. I know it's crazy - I see things backwards too, I think. I learn slower - I'm EXTREMELY analytical. It makes people nuts -but that's how my mind works - but boy sister - when I get it? I GET IT ALL....and then some. Don't beat yourself up on this one. I have a girlfriend that is going to school to get her masters in diversified education because the schools are just NOW figuring out this EXACT thing. Kids aren't stupid - Girls aren't bad at math - WE JUST LEARN it different. And boys are NOT bad spellers - they just LEARN IT DIFFERENT. So teach us differently. Unfortunately - at this point I can't teach math - but I can learn it. You can too - and fractions too. (math hug) </p><p> </p><p>Okay and as far as that couch? I'd be dragging that SOB out on the lawn and burning it. I mean if it's a matter of being too poor to afford a new couch? I'd get some $8.00 lawn chairs from the dollar store or sit on the floor. But apparently the couch is a bone of contention and needs to go. It's an anchor to the past. Why keep it? (no answer needed). Keep the man - burn the couch. I wouldn't donate it either. I think you need to call a tree service and find out what it costs per hour to rent a shredder and then have them fire that puppy up and drag out that couch to the curb and toss 'er in. (PfffffffGrrrrrrrrrwrrerekwlkerjlekj) <-------sound it would make chunking up. Then go shopping for new furniture together. </p><p> </p><p>You are a lovely, wonderful, talented, gifted Mother, Wife and friend. Math just stinks - you ARE smart - and fractions can make your head hurt. Relieve the stress by chucking that couch! </p><p> </p><p>Anyway - thought I'd share that little nugget with you. (laughing -) I was thinking about Diary of a Mad Black woman when that woman cuts the couch in half with a chainsaw to give the man his 1/2. (too messy). </p><p> </p><p>Hugs and love </p><p>Star</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 404217, member: 4964"] I'm not sure which I'd rather address first - the fractions or the infraction.....(tapping chin with finger.....long dramatic pause.....exhale) Okay first the fractions, for the sake of my nephew. I struggled with math my entire life. I HATED IT. Numbers do not like me. I'm sure of it. Even the first time I played a scratch off ticket? Everyone else matched at least 2 numbers and myself? Oh I got the worlds only ticket that matched none. My first license plate in the state of SC? XXX - 666 - I mean come ON. (I did ask for a different plate for personal reasons). Then there was the time most recently taking a test on Thursday that my literal world depended on me knowing if the number was a 4 or a 3, and I kept seeing the number 4 backwards and couldn't tell you what the number was. The eyes see it, the brain asks; WHAT IS IT? THINK HARD what is that? I finally blurted out FOUR and saved my bacon, but it was scary. So before I chose a career as a trucker, I was a bookkeeper. Yeah - go figure that one. I quit math in the 7th grade, and chose to take 2 majors instead. What I squeeked by with was dysgraphia. I thought I squeeked by with mild mental retardation. My entire life - I never EVER thought I was the slightest bit smart. Clever perhaps, but not smart. My sister? Lord help us all. Her IQ is in the genius range - so by comparison I did look like Forest Gump. (However I will add - I have a personality - neah) Moving on..... I did not realize that I WAS smart - quite smart actually until I was in my thirties and a woman who was trying to help me with math was showing me a problem and said "Oh you don't get it?" and I nearly crawled out of my chair. She said "Huh, okay then...let me see if I can explain it differently so you can understand it. I have three children and not ONE of them learned math the same way." Her oldest son - an applied mathematics professor at the age of 21 - USC. Yeah - grab that! So when she said what she said and I was allowed to sit there and NOT be stupid, but be told not everyone learns the same - that it may NOT be me - that it may be HOW I was taught? WOW - what a difference. See Svehghandi - I don't know if I like math so much - but what I can tell you is that I don't like the 1+1 = aspect. I like 1+ ? = 2.....Give me the answer and let me work it backwards. Explain to me WHY it works the way it does backwards. I know it's crazy - I see things backwards too, I think. I learn slower - I'm EXTREMELY analytical. It makes people nuts -but that's how my mind works - but boy sister - when I get it? I GET IT ALL....and then some. Don't beat yourself up on this one. I have a girlfriend that is going to school to get her masters in diversified education because the schools are just NOW figuring out this EXACT thing. Kids aren't stupid - Girls aren't bad at math - WE JUST LEARN it different. And boys are NOT bad spellers - they just LEARN IT DIFFERENT. So teach us differently. Unfortunately - at this point I can't teach math - but I can learn it. You can too - and fractions too. (math hug) Okay and as far as that couch? I'd be dragging that SOB out on the lawn and burning it. I mean if it's a matter of being too poor to afford a new couch? I'd get some $8.00 lawn chairs from the dollar store or sit on the floor. But apparently the couch is a bone of contention and needs to go. It's an anchor to the past. Why keep it? (no answer needed). Keep the man - burn the couch. I wouldn't donate it either. I think you need to call a tree service and find out what it costs per hour to rent a shredder and then have them fire that puppy up and drag out that couch to the curb and toss 'er in. (PfffffffGrrrrrrrrrwrrerekwlkerjlekj) <-------sound it would make chunking up. Then go shopping for new furniture together. You are a lovely, wonderful, talented, gifted Mother, Wife and friend. Math just stinks - you ARE smart - and fractions can make your head hurt. Relieve the stress by chucking that couch! Anyway - thought I'd share that little nugget with you. (laughing -) I was thinking about Diary of a Mad Black woman when that woman cuts the couch in half with a chainsaw to give the man his 1/2. (too messy). Hugs and love Star [/QUOTE]
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