My older brother and I taught our younger brother about negative numbers when he was in second grade. He grasped the concept pretty easily.
It's all about choices, Faith. The ones we make, and the ones we don't. Oh, and the consequences. Those are always fun.
Angelus ,'Smile Time'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
tommyrot - Feb 12, 2009 5:35:23 am PST #766 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Polter-Cow - Feb 12, 2009 5:46:20 am PST #767 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Happy birthday, Kristin, Maria, and Charles Darwin!
Emily - Feb 12, 2009 5:56:21 am PST #768 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Seventh grade. For Algebra. I'm still agog.
Bob Moses would be so proud. Well, he might be prouder if your son was black, but he probably approves in general.
Emily - Feb 12, 2009 5:57:53 am PST #769 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
My brother taught me algebra in first grade, and I remember getting it and liking it. Of course, I forgot everything shortly thereafter, but there you go. It probably got stored with knowing German, which mysteriously purged itself from my brain.
omnis_audis - Feb 12, 2009 5:59:32 am PST #770 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Happy Birthday, Kristin!!!
Happy Birthday, Maria!!!
Fred Pete - Feb 12, 2009 6:00:48 am PST #771 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
In fact, one of the things I think we railed against in a previous discussion was the tendency of teachers up until second or third grade to say that you can't subtract a larger number from a smaller one!
I was taught that, too. We eventually had a unit in negative numbers, in fifth grade, I think.
Seventh grade. For Algebra. I'm still agog.
My school system allowed a few students to take algebra in 8th grade. I was one and did quite welll.
omnis_audis - Feb 12, 2009 6:08:16 am PST #772 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Does anyone know if UPS will be delivering on Monday, it being a holiday and all? Seems my Xbox is repaired, and they are shipping it out today via ground. I leave for DC on Tuesday. It took 2 days to get to repair center. That would put Saturday or Monday delivery.
SuziQ - Feb 12, 2009 6:08:43 am PST #773 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
CJ has been working with Algebra concepts for a while, though the teacher hasn't been calling them that, so I'm not too worried about him.
IOmemeN - I'm sick again. My voice is pretty much gone and not in a deep sexy way. I don't do well with not talking.
Glamcookie - Feb 12, 2009 7:02:28 am PST #774 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Happy birthday, Kristin and Maria! (Abe Lincoln and Charles Darwin, too!)
~ma to your friend and her family, sj.
California Stop.
Gronk.
Pix - Feb 12, 2009 7:23:43 am PST #775 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Thanks, everyone!
Happy Birthday, Maria! Also Happy 200th Birthday to Darwin and Lincoln!
I am having a *fabulous* morning. I got presents from three of my English department colleagues (action figure Darwin and Alexander the Great and writer magnets) at our morning meeting, and then my first period class came in singing Happy Birthday with a cake and little presents and cards! My students are SO DAMNED CUTE.
This is already the best birthday I've had in years.
Plus, I've now outlived Jesus and Alexander the Great, which is...um, I don't know. But that happened.