Maths Homework

[giraffe]

If they couldn't do it I just used to Write on the page that they were stuck. They usually found that no one could do it.

[Laura]

I used to get my sisters to test me on stuff, and I'd test them. Trouble was I was the year above them, so I tested them on stuff I'd already done, they tested me on stuff they hadn't done yet, so they ended up knowing it all a year before anyone else in their class!

[Bunnylump]

I never did much homework. There were far more interesting things to do with my life like music and boys!!

[Snoopy]

The talk about calculators reminded me that when my OH and I bought our first one we took out a loan to pay for it. I think it cost about £20 but that was around 1974!!!

[LAT]

When my daughter was about 5 her homework mostly consisted of writing practice. Once I remember they had been learning about words with double letters and had 10 of them to put into sentences.
The teacher was rather taken aback by "My Daddy has a hairy bottom" She wrote afterwards REALLY!!

[giraffe]

When F was 5/6 he used to have to write about his weekend every Monday. He would say every week that he had watched the football on TV and then give a blow by blow account of who had scored and which team won. Poor teacher must have been bored rigid. One week he put "The smelly team won" when the result was not to his liking. Teacher wrote !!!!!!! next to that comment good to see she was still awake.

[Bunnylump]

Loving K's comment, LAT. That's completely classic! Kids really know how to let you down, don' t they? Dibble was once asked to describe "sounds at night". He told the class "At night, when I'm in bed, I can hear my Mummy and Daddy in the bathroom. And I hear giggling and splashing." My friend, who was a Teaching Assistant in the class at the time nearly wet herself!!

[LAT]

That's brilliant!
Aren't kids wonderful?

[Bunnylump]

You've got to love them, haven't you?

[MBH]

The talk about calculators reminded me that when my OH and I bought our first one we took out a loan to pay for it. I think it cost about £20 but that was around 1974!!!

Calculators came in on our last year of school. Somehow I ended up with a one that operated on "Reverse Polish Logic". Basically it didn't have an equals sign and you had to use it in a particular sequence for doing calculations on. GREAT fun to leave around for others to try to use Nobody ever nicked it from me

[Wulfruna]

I still think the log tables that we used 50 years ago (!! ) were a brilliant aid at the time. Though I admit that for some people they must have been hard to cope with. I remember being mystified as to how they had been worked out and full of admiration for the geniuses involved. But then, at the time maths was my favourite subject by miles - and I still enjoy playing with numbers - hmmmmm could we do with more number puzzles in PB?????
For some reason my school never taught us how to use slide rules, which I now realise was probably out of false pride that true mathematicians should be able to manage without them.....

[giraffe]

Yes please to maths puzzles.

[clvrlad]

i liked them

i sort of imagined a big ruler and some one carefully measuring things so they had accurate tables

[Bunnylump]

hmmmmm could we do with more number puzzles in PB?????

No thank you. Funny how different we all are! I view all maths as an absolutely mind numbing chore, and would NEVER derive any pleasure or satisfaction whatsoever from being given a maths puzzle. In fact, I would go as far as to say that I just wouldn't bother to do them at all. But then my favourite puzzles are things like map puzzles and cryptics, which, of course, lots of people hate.

[MBH]

hmmmmm could we do with more number puzzles in PB?????

No thank you. Funny how different we all are! I view all maths as an absolutely mind numbing chore, and would NEVER derive any pleasure or satisfaction whatsoever from being given a maths puzzle. In fact, I would go as far as to say that I just wouldn't bother to do them at all. But then my favourite puzzles are things like map puzzles and cryptics, which, of course, lots of people hate.

You can always call on the other half of the team Sis I usually enjoy them.

[Bunnylump]

We're pretty much chalk and cheese as far as puzzles go. I think when the egg split* (somewhere between here and Northumberland) you got the maths brain and I got the word brain. *Oh, hang on, that wouldn't work, because I'm a girl. Sorry. Forgot. Maybe I'm not really a girl - that's probably why I hate shopping and buying shoes, but like Meccano.