Just an aside because I just wrote Wednesday and I explained why I got married on a Wednesday to my neighbor recently. I didn't just get married on a Wednesday because Friday was Christmas, I had always wanted to get married on a Wednesday because when I was a little girl I though Wednesdays were for weddings because they both started with wed!
Today at work which was four hours of tutoring, I tutored a college student on logarithms, real roots of polynomials, and basically helped him prep for the final; I also tutored a young man who is going into high school -- who definitely did not want to be there! I also tutored a delightful young lady who is going into high school and realizes that her math abilities need some work before August and she just sits down and starts working. Then for the last hour, I tutored 2nd grade math -- subtraction without borrowing. So from roots of a polynomial to subtraction without borrowing -- it was quite a spread of my academic knowledge tonight.
The house is quiet -- we are empty nesters at the moment. I apologize to my son for never telling him that his sister was going to DC for a conference -- didn't withhold the information on purpose, just never got around to discussing it with him. Perhaps I was in denial!
Got a couple more pages done on the scrapbook -- still far behind my goal but doing much better this week on the goal than last week. Twinkie, the scrapbook room cat, clearly likes me to visit her as long as I don't accidentally bring the other cat! Hope I'll get more Twinkie time tomorrow.
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4 comments:
how do you do subtraction without borrowing? Isn't borrowing one of the basic tenants of subtraction?
987 minus 652 doesn't require borrowing because 7-2=5; 8-5=3; and 9-6=3 so your answer is 335.
987-698 does require borrowing because you can't subtract 8 from 7 in the ones column without borrowing from the 10's column which then you have to borrow from the 100's column.
Didn't I ever teach you this??
you taught me that, but I didn't think of it like that. I guess I should go back to second grade.
Nah -- you passed calculus -- I think you're good.
Also, in reality I probably didn't teach you subtraction -- I'm sure that was someone at Dove Elem.
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