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    Originally Posted by Ametrine
    Dad: What is 16x4?
    DS6: Um....(smile)
    Mom: What is 15x4?
    DS: Wait! Wait! (covers ears)

    ....10 seconds go by....

    DS: 64!

    Mom: Yes! How did you get that?
    Dad: I know how he got it.
    DS: (smiles)
    Dad: He multiplied 6x4 and added the 24 to his 4x10.
    DS: (grinning)

    Mom: On the floor. (never would have thought of that).

    that's exactly how I've been multiplying the last close to 30 years! lol

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    Originally Posted by Mk13
    Originally Posted by Ametrine
    Dad: What is 16x4?
    DS6: Um....(smile)
    Mom: What is 15x4?
    DS: Wait! Wait! (covers ears)

    ....10 seconds go by....

    DS: 64!

    Mom: Yes! How did you get that?
    Dad: I know how he got it.
    DS: (smiles)
    Dad: He multiplied 6x4 and added the 24 to his 4x10.
    DS: (grinning)

    Mom: On the floor. (never would have thought of that).

    that's exactly how I've been multiplying the last close to 30 years! lol

    LOL!

    Is that good or bad? I'm so completely NOT a numbers gal.

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    Originally Posted by Ametrine
    Originally Posted by Mk13
    Originally Posted by Ametrine
    Dad: What is 16x4?
    DS6: Um....(smile)
    Mom: What is 15x4?
    DS: Wait! Wait! (covers ears)

    ....10 seconds go by....

    DS: 64!

    Mom: Yes! How did you get that?
    Dad: I know how he got it.
    DS: (smiles)
    Dad: He multiplied 6x4 and added the 24 to his 4x10.
    DS: (grinning)

    Mom: On the floor. (never would have thought of that).

    that's exactly how I've been multiplying the last close to 30 years! lol

    LOL!

    Is that good or bad? I'm so completely NOT a numbers gal.

    no idea! I have always been a numbers girl but this is the only way I can do it in my head! lol ... I could never use the ways they taught us to do math at school. I always drove my teachers crazy with having my own ways yet with correct answers smile

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    This is one of those, can only tell here things, not sure it's a brag, but I thought it was so cool, so I guess it makes it a brag!!!

    So listening to Science Friday (NPR) DS 7 loves it, and we often do that. Physicist Lee Smollin was talking about his argument about time - he has a new book out - was very specific, and definition based, and a little esoteric. DS starts waving his arms and wants me to pause the recording. So I do and he says, I don't agree with him, and launches into his rationale for why this guy was wrong, based on a discussion of time Neil de grasse Tyson did on StarTalk 3 months ago - about time being dependent on the way you measure it and the ability to measure it and that it doesnt exist without the ability to measure something repeatable. It was a very scientifically reasoned and supported discussion using a different scholarly point of view - it was so awesome!

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    DS(almost)5 wrote a book! He stapled it together and drew all the pictures, then dictated text to go with them for me to write.

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    DS19mo freaked out a cashier at the bookstore today by spelling our surname. The cashier had asked DH for his personal details to look up his membership card in the computer system, but DS beat him to the punch.


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    Cute, cute and cute! smile

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    Follow-up... how's this for advocacy?

    DW: Please inform me immediately if you're going to accept DD8 for next year as a fourth grader and in the gifted program. I need an answer now so I can begin preparing my homeschool curriculum over the summer, if necessary.

    School: Uhhh... okay. We'll take her.

    Did I mention earlier that 4th grade is the year they take the state assessment test that matters, as it's the one the school gets graded on? Did I mention that they need to show improvement on those? I did mention that DD scored Mastery level on all subjects for the 3rd-grade version.

    Bargaining from a position of strength, for the win.

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    Originally Posted by Dude
    Follow-up... how's this for advocacy?

    DW: Please inform me immediately if you're going to accept DD8 for next year as a fourth grader and in the gifted program. I need an answer now so I can begin preparing my homeschool curriculum over the summer, if necessary.

    School: Uhhh... okay. We'll take her.

    Did I mention earlier that 4th grade is the year they take the state assessment test that matters, as it's the one the school gets graded on? Did I mention that they need to show improvement on those? I did mention that DD scored Mastery level on all subjects for the 3rd-grade version.

    Bargaining from a position of strength, for the win.
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    Good for your wife and daughter! That is fantastic.

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    Ooh, I love that, DeHe. Also, that whole discussion sounds like something BOTH my kids would be so interested in. We are always talking about time, infinity, and the universe over here (I am NOT an expert in these subjects).

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