Comments on: Cutting Class in Fifth Grade

By: Real Education Is Relevant - Reschool Yourself

Real Education Is Relevant - Reschool Yourself — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:53:58 +0000

[...] as a child, I participated in his class for Reschool Yourself and loved seeing him in action. Here’s what I wrote about him on the blog: First thing every morning, he sits in front of the class in his casual jeans shorts [...]

By: Melia

Melia — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:03:25 +0000

Haha, Lynnie, nerd alert, nerd alert! OK, I admit to doing math problems for fun at home from this book we got as the prize for some math contest.

By: lynnie

lynnie — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:01:08 +0000

I love(d) long division. I remember the favorite time of the day was the adrenaline rush that accompanied the timed math tests.

By: Melia

Melia — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:44:05 +0000

OK, I changed the wording to “I haven’t had occasion to do long division _by hand_ since….elementary school” for clarification.

By: Melia

Melia — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:41:46 +0000

Haha, in elementary I think of “cutting” as pretending you’re sick to stay home, not loitering outside the 7-11 during school hours.

I’m going to use long division to figure out how much paint I need to cover my bedroom, but I’ll use a calculator. I think it’s important to be able to do it by hand if you need to, but by your own methods rather than one that’s mandatory. By hand, I prefer doing it backwards, e.g., “How many 72s fit into 400?”

By: Margaret

Margaret — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:15:47 +0000

oh and by the way, I still do long division. Like for figuring out my salary requirements.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:14:58 +0000

Are you kidding?? I never cut class in elementary school! I would have been too afraid of the consequences, even if I had wanted to. I don’t think anybody could, surveillance (of the human eye type) was so airtight there. High school, now, I know other people cut classes, but I didn’t. Unless taking off a whole day because I was sick counts. Spartacus!