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Tue Jun 03 2003

A big thanks go to Regina from a mailing list I'm on for facing me in the right direction for that math problem I posted in my last entry. I was so on the wrong track when trying to tackle it.

I now know how to do the problem. If anyone reading this is masochistic enough to want to know how, let me know and I will share!

#1 & #2 have not done well in math this last year, so over the summer I will be doing Pre-Algebra with them. Based on the math assignments I saw #2 bring home, that looks to be the level they are at. I don't remember doing Pre-Algebra in 7th grade, I think I had it in 9th grade. But then, I had parents who allowed me to wimp out when it came to doing math. Seeing the fight I have with my kids now, I can understand part of why they let me be so slack. Now as a Mom trying to re-learn and learn more advanced levels of math I ever took, I'm determined that come hell or high water my kids will not be allowed to slack in this arena.

Hmm, I'd better go price electric cattle prods.

2 Comments
  • From:
    TraumaMama (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Jun 04 2003
    The are algebra newsgroups that can help you too. I used to go to mathonline for help with my *chuckle chuckle* take home tests until several of the answers they gave me were counted wrong. I couldn't do anything about it without admitting.
    Darn hot down here!
  • From:
    CovertOps (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jun 05 2003
    LMAO! LOL! Oh, you're a horror of a Mom, LOL! Don't come running to us if your kids end up being those Leathermen who ask other leatherfolk to put nipple clamps, etc on them! LOL!
    I know of a lady who found it harder for her to coach her kids in their studies when they went to secondary school because what they studied was out of her league. She then paid them to teach her the lessons they learned in school every week. She'd open the textbook at a new chapter and say: I'll pay you 10 bucks an hour if you tutor me in Calculus. That way, the kid makes an effort to pay attention in class so that he won't be caught out by his mother and have to admit that he didn't know his stuff. The kid also developed a sense of responsibility, and somehow the tutorials opened up lines of teenager-parent communication as well. Might be worth a try.
    Love,
    E.L.