My poor son is cowering in the corner right now. Terrified that his mom will go off on another rampage about why my tax dollars haven't resulted in his knowing how to do long division. Four hours in two nights have convinced me that they spend all day playing charades or something, because I sure as hell seem to be the one teaching (or attempting to teach) my fourth grader long division. And I am not a teacher. NOT A TEACHER. Not only not a teacher, but never had even the vaguest desire to be a teacher. Not long on patience in the teaching of the long division department*.
Anyway, that rant over with, I wanted to share with you the fun word cloud I first found over on Lolly's blog, but popping up all over the blog-o-shere in a matter of hours. Code writers are so HOT!!
*It's not that I don't know how to do long division, it's that I don't know how to teach long division. The examples he was provided with look nothing like what I learned. How does that work? My attempts to teach him the way I know to do it just result in frustration for both of us! (Whoops, guess I wasn't quite done with that rant after all)!
Comments (3)
Bless his heart (and yours!), I hope that it "clicks" and he gets it to save both of yall's sanity!
Posted by Gracie | February 2, 2006 11:46 AM
Posted on February 2, 2006 11:46
Good luck to you both with the long division - I have noticed that many textbooks nowadays have drastically changed their methods. This happened to me when I was trying to help my sister (who is only 6.5 years younger!) with some homework one day...
Great word cloud!
Posted by Lolly | February 2, 2006 12:38 PM
Posted on February 2, 2006 12:38
Poor Leah! Reading this made me nervous since ya know I've got this to look forward to. I do feel for you and hope it gets better.
Love the subtle rose you put up in the banner -- nice touch!
Posted by amanda | February 2, 2006 4:03 PM
Posted on February 2, 2006 16:03