Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g19IQ4u08868; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 13:26:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 13:26:04 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <ba.2102676d.2996c3d0@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: LELemke@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3905] RE: NIFL-LD:3810 NO Support for phonetic X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 36 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1355 Lines: 32 In a message dated 1/29/02 7:02:10 AM, mshuttlesworth@yahoo.com writes: << Now, I'm not trying to say that the teachers are incompetant. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with a different way of looking at the world. For instance, I had a horrid time in trying to learn my multiplucation tables because I would look at 6x8 and instead of just straight out sayign that the answer was 48, my mind seperated it into 3x4 + 3x4. I still have no idea why. It's kind of like that. By the way, that is not how my teacher taught me to do the problem. I created that version on my own in an attempt to put her answer in line with my own. I hope that made some semblance of sense. Michelle Michelle, as a special ed teacher, your math strategy is one that I have used with my adult learners. When, for instance, I show them the 12 times table broken into the 10s plus the 2s, they are so relieved because they already know 10 times anything is the number plus the zero and 2 times anything is simply 2 plus 2 which they almost always know but get confused when you say 2 times 2. Anyway, once they see it as above, most can figure out the answer to the 12s in their head; some will write the two separate answers down on paper and then add them, but it's still a lot faster than having no clue as to what 12 X 11 etc is. Ellie
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