It's official. I am doomed.
Today we learned what a statement sentence was. I can do that.
We studied a bit of Isaiah (2 Nephi). With help, I can do that.
Spelling tests - check.
Reading - check.
History of ancient India - no problem.
Classification of musical instruments with a little help from Peter and the Wolf - enjoyable.
Then we came to Eliora's math.
Here is a sample: (and how it was written out)
Study the Patterns and Find the Missing Numbers:
19, 10
6
34
8,4
11
23
7,28
3
?
Find the question mark. It took me 20 minutes.
The next one was:
a+b=9
a+a+b=15
a=?
b=?
This one I could figure out pretty quick owing to the fact that there are not that many combinations of 9. However, if the number were any higher I would have sitting there for 20 minutes. Seriously, I remember doing this stuff in high school. So, make me feel better. Do the problems and let me know how fast you are. (I am hoping someone, anyone took as long as I did) I will post the answers in a few days.
Today we learned what a statement sentence was. I can do that.
We studied a bit of Isaiah (2 Nephi). With help, I can do that.
Spelling tests - check.
Reading - check.
History of ancient India - no problem.
Classification of musical instruments with a little help from Peter and the Wolf - enjoyable.
Then we came to Eliora's math.
Here is a sample: (and how it was written out)
Study the Patterns and Find the Missing Numbers:
19, 10
6
34
8,4
11
23
7,28
3
?
Find the question mark. It took me 20 minutes.
The next one was:
a+b=9
a+a+b=15
a=?
b=?
This one I could figure out pretty quick owing to the fact that there are not that many combinations of 9. However, if the number were any higher I would have sitting there for 20 minutes. Seriously, I remember doing this stuff in high school. So, make me feel better. Do the problems and let me know how fast you are. (I am hoping someone, anyone took as long as I did) I will post the answers in a few days.
8 comments:
1st question: 38 (1 min)
2nd question: a=6, b=3 (2 min)
But to be fair, I was a chem major in college so this is what I spent my time doing...
That did not make me feel better ;)
If it makes you feel better, just looking at the problems made me tired. Glad Ruby's still learning adding and subtracting! -Andrea
that is second grade math? vienna is doing things like charts, thermometers, addition and subtraction
the first example and second example are not consistent
The consistency is what took me so long. You add the first two numbers on the left and then add that to the number on the top right. My brain doesn't seem to want to go down and then back up. These are the 'challenger' questions at the end of the book. I didn't have Eliora do them yet but I think I will save them for review next year. The book is trying to get the kids to look at every problem in a different way from every angle. I was definitely not taught like that.
The first one should read:
19,10
6
35
in order to follow the pattern.
The second one is substitution:
If a+b=9 then b=9-a
so
a+a+b=15=a+a+(9-a)
so 2a+(9-a)=15 (commutative)
so 2a+9-1=15
so 2a-a=6
so a=6
6+b=9
so b=3
--anonymous me
Oops. Wonder if I wrote it wrong or the book did. Guess that's why I'm not so good at math
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