Doing the math
"I happen to know that in the future I will not have the slightest use for algebra, and I speak from experience."
Here, in order, are the events of the last few days which have revolved around this quote:
- Helping Katie with some Algebra homework, and watching her try to figure out the proper steps to take when the problem looked slightly different than the ones before.
- Remembering figuring such things out myself when I was her age.
- Realizing I'd not needed to use algebra in a very long time.
- Wondering if she would reach a point in her math classes where I would no longer be able to help her, something which happened to me when I was in school.
- The next day at work, discussing this event with a coworker, who quipped that it sounded a lot like the line from Peggy Sue Got Married.
- Today, being asked by another coworker if I knew how to find the lengths of sides on a triangle if the angles were known.
- Realizing that, once upon a time, I did indeed have this knowledge... but apparently no longer do without aid from the Great Google.
- Deciding it wouldn't be long at all until Katie's math classes surpass my fading memory.
Comments on "Doing the math":
If she's already in Algebra in 7th grade, I'd venture to say she'll be okay without your help! [No offense!!!! :) ] I was on the 'advanced math track', and still was only Pre-Algebra in 7th grade. I did pretty well until 11th grade, when I hit Trig/Pre-Cal, and I had a bad teacher and pretty much just gave up. Somehow pulled a "D" (out of pity, I believe).
Fun related story: Last week I was in a 4th grade classroom to observe some happenings and they were doing long division on the board. I literally got a piece of paper and a pen, tried each problem, and realized that I no longer know how to do it. Sad.# Posted by Lisa G on February 1, 2010 @ 11:11 EST.
Well, kudos to her advanced level. I failed albegra II and had to sit through it again in the heat of a summer...my eldest son's math skills will probably surpass my own in about a year or two. He is in the third grade! (In my defense, I can still diagram the you-know-what out of a sentence...but I never liked the crap, either...I hated that after-lunch math-class feeling coming up in English when I thought it was supposed to be about stories, and only stories...
Had to comment, though, when I saw Peggy Sue get mentioned. I watch that movie frequently...long live Roku....it might be my favorite Coppola film, which would be heresy to my film school friends....but then, that is a much longer rambling....
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