Comments on: “How You Spell Hard, Mom?” http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2012/09/how-you-spell-hard-mom/ Girl in a Party Hat Mon, 02 May 2022 06:16:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: heatherhalesdesigns.com » Blog Archive » Good Job http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2012/09/how-you-spell-hard-mom/comment-page-1/#comment-12080 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:53:22 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=4354#comment-12080 [...] week my friend Amy posted about struggling through math with her daughter.  To tell you the truth I lost my train of [...]

]]> By: Kris http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2012/09/how-you-spell-hard-mom/comment-page-1/#comment-12067 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:52:58 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=4354#comment-12067 Ya, that’s fucking awesome (I’m going to leave the fuck in there). I’ll echo the comments about wishing Elaine was around when I was learning math. Kate’s syndrome also predisposes her with some learning issues related to math. So far she is doing ok, but definitely doesn’t love it. Everyone has different strengths and weaknesses, regardless of their chromosomal makeup. I’ll say this…Kate kicks the ass out of all her friends’ fashion sense.

]]> By: Cole http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2012/09/how-you-spell-hard-mom/comment-page-1/#comment-12053 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:25:14 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=4354#comment-12053 Wow- I just heard/took in as much from Elaine’s comment as I did your post. As someone who loves looking for the beauty in the unexpected, I think I have now for the first time regretted never finding it in Math. I wish Elaine had been my math teacher and maybe I would see it differently as well- I now want to.

That and as the parent of a kindergartener whose math homework perplexes the 5 degrees right out of our household I have to say I’m scared of what’s to come. May we all learn along with them.

]]> By: krlr http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2012/09/how-you-spell-hard-mom/comment-page-1/#comment-12052 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:04:58 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=4354#comment-12052 Well I don’t think I can top Elaine’s comment but I will tell you that Sophie’s math teacher singlehandedly redeems the entire human race for me today. I might even have something in my eye – it’s weirdly watery.

This, of course, presents a new problem. What in the world are you going to gift them at the holidays? The apple mug suddenly seems insufficient.

]]> By: Elaine http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2012/09/how-you-spell-hard-mom/comment-page-1/#comment-12049 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:41:10 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=4354#comment-12049 Oh, Amy. As someone who likes math, here’s what I think: math is useful the way poetry is useful. That is to say, there are people who couldn’t live without it. And there are plenty who don’t ever need it at all. Math is worth studying for the same reasons poetry is worth studying: it’s beautiful and it’s empowering. You may never have seen the beauty, so you’re going to have to trust me on this one, math is an elegant system of logic, it’s this gorgeous architecture of theorems, it’s actually related to the swirls in a pineapple and the sounds in a musical scale…. But it you miss all that? No biggie. As long as Sophie knows that she is getting the right change, and that a $20 off sale is not the same as a 20% off sale, well, then, she’s probably okay. It sounds like you probably missed out on some of the beauty and empowerment of math (so many people do), and you turned out more than fine.

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