I love it!  Don't give me any ideas... I have just enough of a latent
sarcastic streak (and she does too) to send her back to school some day
spouting trivia about the golden ratio or something. :-D

The teacher just wants them to work a few straight-up math problems each
evening.  65+43, 87-34, 7x14, etc.

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Jason Paul <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm curious what the teacher means by a 'math fact'. Does she just mean
> problems like what you're creating because a math fact could be just about
> anything historical about the evolution of math or a day-to-day usable
> example of math. Also it would seem like using the least efficient method
> would be the most instructive for a child because you're going to teach
> them each point in the thought process.
>
>
> Just curious about the problem more than the solution there.
>
> Kudos for being attentive.
>
> ...
> Of course I don't have children because teaching them not to be horrible
> adults seems counterintuitive to the loudest and most pervasive visual
> examples lauded in our society.
>
>

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