Posted by alexandra_k on January 14, 2014, at 3:26:22
In reply to Re: maths, posted by rjlockhart37 on January 13, 2014, at 22:42:35
groan. year three is kicking my *ss. i think it's because i pooped out on trying to hold the numbers all in my head this morning...
i reckon i'll have finished year three by the end of tomorrow. i think i'll aim just for that, actually. then take a little time out before getting into year four the following day...
it is mostly subtraction that is hard for me. i think i need to spend some time with little sums... get the hang of them for addition and subtraction. just up to around 20. i think that would help me a lot. otherwise i'm doing an awful lot with my fingers, still, and i'd rather properly have a visual of it.
does anyone remember those little cubes. ours were colored. 10 was orange. one was white. i think 9 was brown. maybe 4 was green. they were different lengths so you could see how different ones added up to 10... the site does that with ten as a line. then 5 ones. then... up to 4 ones... to make 10. that doesn't really describe it very well... but it would be helpful to shuffle those around mentally, i think. then 10 lots of 10 is of course 100... for a cube...
getting there, i am.
this is kinda like learning oly lifting ha.
i don't see how seeing numbers as colors would help anyone or anything, particularly. i suspect that would be a red herring (ha) that would return to bite...
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