{"id":125,"date":"2008-08-19T22:55:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T03:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aprendemos.yuriar.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2008-08-19T22:55:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T03:55:03","slug":"i-feel-stoopid-2day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/2008\/08\/19\/i-feel-stoopid-2day\/","title":{"rendered":"I feel stoopid 2day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GeekBoy.\u00a0 Subtraction.\u00a0 The two do not mix.\u00a0 After this mornings round, I decided maybe there is a better way to reach him with this then what I\u2019m trying.\u00a0 It suddenly dawned on me that he tested for being <a href=\"http:\/\/aprendemos.yuriar.com\/blog\/?p=115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">61% right brained<\/a>, and I tested as being a left brained. What\u2019s the difference?\u00a0 Left side of the brain is more logical, uses facts, &amp; very detail oriented.\u00a0 Right side is more feelings, big picture, symbols and images, imaginative types.\u00a0 Essentially, I think in words, he thinks in pictures \u2013 that kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>So I asked the Homeschool group, knowing there are several moms in there with right-brained kids, what do I do???\u00a0 How do I get this kid to do his subtraction???\u00a0 The answers I got \u2013 well\u2026\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get anything I didn\u2019t already know.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t push him.<\/li>\n<li>Skip it! Right brainers will fill in the gaps as needed.<\/li>\n<li>Let him pick and chose where to go in the book.<\/li>\n<li>Real life\/living math examples.<\/li>\n<li>Work with money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All things that I knew!!!\u00a0 So why on earth aren\u2019t I doing any of it?<\/p>\n<p>So of course, my confidence is shaken.\u00a0 It was just a few days ago I mentioned to my husband that for some reason I felt better abt this year, more prepared, etc?\u00a0 Yea.\u00a0 I still feel better then I have in the past, I\u2019m not wistfully thinking about that big yellow bus as an answer to my problem.\u00a0 But my confidence has taken a hit.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to throw in the towel, just need to fall back and regroup, you know?<\/p>\n<p>So, I\u2019ve made a deal with him \u2013 Pass the test for Chapter 1, and we will skip it all.\u00a0 Now, there is a page on order of operations (add first left-right, then subtract IE: 70-40-8+5) that we need to go over, so tomorrow we will do that, Friday the test.\u00a0 And looking at the test for chapter two (multiplying 0-5), if we skip to the order of operations (Multiply first! Then ad &amp; subtract!) I think he can breeze through chapt 2 in a day or so. I\u2019m printing up Book B, so if he wants to skip to Division we can.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, on my brain test, I tested as 70% left brained, and the teaching was listed among the occupations I&#8217;d probably enjoy most.\u00a0 Go figure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GeekBoy.\u00a0 Subtraction.\u00a0 The two do not mix.\u00a0 After this mornings round, I decided maybe there is a better way to reach him with this then what I\u2019m trying.\u00a0 It suddenly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capt740","category-classes","category-math"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}