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Artistic Adventures
Jun. 24th, 2018 11:38 amLittle Bit and I had some minor adventures yesterday.
( Lots of stuff to discuss )
I found out that schools have been teaching multiplication in a very strange way, which I just looked up and is called Two Digit Multiplication versus how I was taught which is called Vertical Multiplication, and it's confusing as fuck, and I can't for the life of me see how this new method is somehow winning over from the older, more compact and seemingly faster method. Also, that video says students won't have to use pen and paper to solve complex multiplications now and implies us old farts never faced real-world word problems when learning to do math. BULLSHIT! There's no way even I'm doing that stupid ass quadrant of smaller multiplications in my head and keeping those numbers in my head long enough to then turn around and add them up. I think I'd be better off making lines in order to never have to know how to multiply ever again. So, after being tested at Kumon, the tutors are recommending reprogramming that "new math" out of Little Bit's head and getting him into using the "old math" ways. Oh, and there's the Big-7 division and Multiple Towers, or some other such bull, in order to do the long division, which again the video implies won't require pen and paper to ever work out again. HA HA HA HA HA HA! Good fucking grief, this shit hurts my head. Why are we teaching this crap to the kids?
*Also, I bought a new car, which I hadn't posted about. Not much to say about it other than there's a new fancy gadget in our driveway. The Acura is now a family spare vehicle and will most likely become Eldest's car of choice when he gets his driver license in a couple months. He turns 16 in July, but he waited too long to start his driver's education class, and he's required to have a permit for at least 6 months as a requirement to getting his license, so he'll have to wait a couple extra months before he's official. That must be a change since 20+ years ago, because I took my driver's ed class in spring, then turned 16 on June 29, so I only had my permit for about a month before I had my official DL. (And I just realized my birthday is only 5 days away, sheesh where the hell did April and May and June go?)
( Lots of stuff to discuss )
I found out that schools have been teaching multiplication in a very strange way, which I just looked up and is called Two Digit Multiplication versus how I was taught which is called Vertical Multiplication, and it's confusing as fuck, and I can't for the life of me see how this new method is somehow winning over from the older, more compact and seemingly faster method. Also, that video says students won't have to use pen and paper to solve complex multiplications now and implies us old farts never faced real-world word problems when learning to do math. BULLSHIT! There's no way even I'm doing that stupid ass quadrant of smaller multiplications in my head and keeping those numbers in my head long enough to then turn around and add them up. I think I'd be better off making lines in order to never have to know how to multiply ever again. So, after being tested at Kumon, the tutors are recommending reprogramming that "new math" out of Little Bit's head and getting him into using the "old math" ways. Oh, and there's the Big-7 division and Multiple Towers, or some other such bull, in order to do the long division, which again the video implies won't require pen and paper to ever work out again. HA HA HA HA HA HA! Good fucking grief, this shit hurts my head. Why are we teaching this crap to the kids?
*Also, I bought a new car, which I hadn't posted about. Not much to say about it other than there's a new fancy gadget in our driveway. The Acura is now a family spare vehicle and will most likely become Eldest's car of choice when he gets his driver license in a couple months. He turns 16 in July, but he waited too long to start his driver's education class, and he's required to have a permit for at least 6 months as a requirement to getting his license, so he'll have to wait a couple extra months before he's official. That must be a change since 20+ years ago, because I took my driver's ed class in spring, then turned 16 on June 29, so I only had my permit for about a month before I had my official DL. (And I just realized my birthday is only 5 days away, sheesh where the hell did April and May and June go?)
