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Visiting with the school
So, I went to my old secondary/upper secondary school, and it turned out quite nicely. I spoke with some teachers who had taught me, and it turned out the upper secondary school Swedish teacher had decided to become a special education teacher, too. So I chatted with her, and she was helpful enough to tell what special education related activity ( Read more... ) -
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I have a course book that I need to read, written by Timo Saloviita. I have read a book by him once before, and had huge problems with that - it seems like we have very different ideas when it comes to special education. So, I had my reservations when I started reading this book. Surprisingly, though, the bulk of it makes sense - it's about ( Read more... ) -
Taking some pictures out of the camera
It’s still snowing. It started snowing a few days before Christmas, and while it hasn’t been continuous, the breaks haven’t been very long... so by now, there’s a quite a lot of snow. I took some pictures before Christmas - I think there’s more of it, now, but there’s less in the trees, so it isn’t quite as pretty ( Read more... ) -
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Today I ended up going to one of those schools I have been to before. With Halloween approaching, the teachers had decided the children should do some arts and crafts related to that. Thus, I ended up spending the better part of my time there by drawing ghosts and spiders on a cardboard for the kids to cut out. Since all the figures were the same, ( Read more... ) -
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We had something of an autumn storm today - it was very windy and rainy, and I got soaking wet when I was coming home from the lecture on Linear Algebra. A good thing I had finished my drawing of the Roman statue the previous day - trying to bring the picture home in the rain would have been a really bad idea.
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Some thoughts on Brother’s mathematics book
This Maths book introduces rounding as a new concept - and then spends all of three pages teaching it. It also teaches rounding to tens and rounding to hundreds at the same time. Now, Brother didn’t seem to have any problems while we were rounding to tens, and there’s a good chance that he does get rounding to hundreds as well, so perhaps no more ( Read more... ) -
Cat update
Missi wasn’t doing any better this morning, and she wasn’t walking right and didn’t want to eat, so on to the vet she went. She loathes the cat carrying basket, though, so I put her in a sleeping basket instead. (Janne’s and not her own, though, because I didn’t want her to associate her sleeping basket with anything negative.) It went surprisingly ( Read more... ) -
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I got Brother’s new school books yesterday. The math book seems easy enough, for the most part, except that long division in introduced… I always thought that was rather difficult, but apparently the people who make the books don’t agree. I’ll have to look into it a bit more… perhaps try some exercises with Brother and see what he thinks of them. I ( Read more... ) -
Mathematics = Art?
I was reading an interesting article (PDF) on Math education. Basically, the article argues that mathematics is an art, much like music or painting is, and that it’s being taught completely wrong. I find myself agreeing with the article on some points, and disagreeing quite strongly on other points.
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Stupid things for a protagonist to do
I’ve been playing more of the game ’The Longest Journey’ with my sister, and I really wonder why the game developers saw fit to make the protagonist such an idiot. The game is wonderful, otherwise, and the puzzles make sense, and the background in incredibly rich… people have really put some effort into the game, and so the stupidity stands out ( Read more... )