I continue to dig myself out of the avalanche of tasks that built up during the years that I spent mostly down south with my mom as she was weakening.
But here are two tidbits of mathy fun that came across my desk recently, which I think you’ll enjoy…
“If you stay with meaningful mental arithmetic longer, you will find that your child, if she is average, can do problems much more advanced than the level listed for her grade. You will find that she likes arithmetic more.
“And when she does get to abstractions, she will understand them better.
“She will not need two or three years of work in primary grades to learn how to write out something like a subtraction problem with two-digit numbers. She can learn that in a few moments of time, if you just wait.”
—Ruth Beechick, An Easy Start in Arithmetic
