Being married to a math teacher, I try not to be surprised when Matt throws math lingo into everyday life. (To be honest, most of the time I just smile and nod, and let him continue with his "math talk" while I let the miniblinds in my mind lower and block out the sound of his voice. ) I am amazed how he finds math applications in the simplest things. For example: The other night at dinner, Matt was fascinated by Kellie's technique when eating her taco salad. Like most kids, she separated the food on her plate. Her categories: Things I WILL eat and Things I WILL NOT eat. Matt's fascination was in the fact that she separated her WILL NOT EAT pile into subcategories on her plate, creating little piles of like items. To quote Matt, " Blah blah blah SEQUENTIAL ORDERING etc etc etc LIKE ITEMS..." Okay, so I can't remember exactly what he said, but I will post it as soon as I talk to him tonight. (darn those mental miniblinds)
Caleb. (Note that his plate does not contain taco salad. Ordinarily, he wouldn't have an option at dinnertime, but there are days when Mom is just too tired to listen to the VERY LOUD protests during dinner. We compromised and he had a cheese tortilla instead. ) (Kinda makes me want to sing, "One of these things is not like the other...")
Aaron. (He loves his dinner, and is especially proud that most of the vegetables came from our garden.)
Kellie's plate. To the left is her cucmber pile. The right is her hamburger pile, and to the front is her rejected lettuce section.
Kellie. (Please ignore the fact that she is topless. She tends to really get into her food and ruins her tops in the process...)Okay. So I just talked to Matt on the phone, and I completely misquoted him. I guess my mental miniblinds are even more powerful than I thought and my brain is only capable of remembering random math terms and not actually understanding their meanings. His CORRECT QUOTE IS: "Kellie is sorting and classifying by a single trait." (Smart math people out there forgive me, I do not have your mental prowess. It's a good thing I'm so cute or I wouldn't have anything to offer the world. :) )
5 comments:
That's hilarious! Your dinnertime with the kids sounds just like ours. Kellie's plate was so funny, Natalie's looks like that a lot of the time too. She does try everything at least once though, but the stuff she doesn't like (not much) does end up in piles like that too. That's too funny!
Matt-
I understand your pain! I tried to tutor Julie in math when she was in high school. She keeps the mental mini blinds under lock and key.
Just FYI 1/2 of a 1/2 is 1/4.
Hey Julie! Thank you so much for the suggestion to get "Arthur's Fire Drill". What a great idea! No, I didn't even think of that. I'll be getting that one very soon.
I get most of all my pictures (clipart) from Google images. I just type in what I'm looking for and it usually comes up. Thanks for all your comments...you're awesome!
Kellie is a girl after my own heart. I used to sort my foods, but it was because the idea of them touching really bothered me. Mixed veggies were the worst. So I would divide and conquer. LOL Now, I see, that its a math doo hickey. cool.
I love your blog. And it's Mother's day when the kids go back to school. Sorry yours is only 1/3 Mother's day since you still have 2/3 at home.
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