[quote=UCGal][quote=flu]Screw gate programs. I’m sending my kid to chinese school boot camp….That will kick some butt versus any public school gate programs…..[/quote]
Tiger dad![/quote]
Nah…. I spoil her too much…. She’s 5 and I got her first pair of skates. The deal with she had to stay skating for 4 months before I got them….She wanted to bring them into her bed the first night, lol…
Piano is out of the question, so looks like it will be a Guitar or Clarinet….Hell no violin…..
But seriously, they way they teach math here in the U.S. is pretty messed up… I know, because I’m a product of public match education, and my math really sucked donkey ass until I switched over to another methodology…..”Showing your work” is another way of teaching kids “don’t bother trying to count it in your head”….. But I’m not too worried…
See, before in the U.S., we had low denomination currency, which meant you really didn’t have too be soo good at math to survive daily….
Contrast this with Japan/Taiwan/China/Korea…I mean, when you have Japan with at the time 200 yen to a dollar, then just to get by on a daily basis requires individuals to be able to work with large numbers in their heads…For example, a cup of coffee is $1 here, is 320 yen in Japan. And cars, even more trailing zeros…..I mean if you work with denominations in the hundred k’s or millions, you learn pretty fast to do math in your head….
So even from day one, our country’s currency “dumbed down” everyday math for us……Well, not anymore, with the dollar getting trashed….A lot more dollars to buy a lot less things, meaning our kids will need to be a lot better at working with larger denominations….Who said inflation is all bad???
