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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School House Rock - Multiplication Rocks

I am 400 and I still remember the songs.

We were just watching the 3 and 9 ones the other day.

Typically I find learning in song a lot easier.  [/quote]

I'm 40, smart, and my current job involves a lot of math. I was a economics major and a statistics minor in college. There's a big difference between being good at arithmetic (addition, multiplication, etc) and being good at math in general, like understanding theories and numbers. I still can't add and multiply in my head, but I am good at math. For a long time I had the idea that I was bad at math because I couldn't do the work in my head. I don't know why - I just cannot memorize this stuff. I still try sometimes but it doesn't stick. I guess what I'm trying to say is make sure your kids understand that never getting the hang of this doesn't mean they are bad at math. I cringe when I hear people say that. I guess some people probably are, but getting the message in 2nd grade that you're bad at math when there's so much more interesting math to come is sad. I took an entrance exam for high school and as a result was placed in an advanced math course. I tried to drop it, thinking it was a mistake. It took a high school teacher pretty much forcing me into the class for me to take it. I still have the report card from that first quarter. That 98 is still one of the things I'm most proud of.

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