Math - Part II...

I mentioned earlier that I had been taking a Vedic maths course. This week I finished the last lecture and took the final math exam and was excited to get an "A!" The math course itself was not overly difficult, but having grown up learning math in the traditional way (and being well set in that way) it's a challenge to adjust your thinking and practice without falling back on what you already know. It's an entirely new way of seeing numbers, and I really like...

I have spent this last week introducing Alex to the fundamentals. I won't lie, there has been some eye-rolling and groans on his part because he thinks he already knows what I'm teaching. But I take a deep breath and tell him (sometimes multiple times) to bear with me. It's difficult to make a kid understand that you're teaching him an alternative (that's the key word for him) way of doing something he already knows because it is part of the foundation of what he will be learning a little later. But I can confidently tell him it will yield sweet dividends in the not too distant future, and that boosts his enthusiasm. 

Maybe math can be fun after all...