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Sumt er ekki hægt að kenna öðruvísi en með daglegri umgengni um fyrirbærið. Ég hef verið í vandræðum með að kenna 6. bekkingum á klukku. Ástæðan er einföld, börn ganga fæst með úr á sér. Þau treysta á að þeim sé sagt hvenær hlutirnir gerast. Sum nota þó stafrænu klukkuna á gsm símanum sínum, nema í skólanum þar sem gsm notkun er ekki leyfð.

Greinilegt að sumir menntskælingar eru í svipuðum vanda, eins og S. Fjalar komst að. Ég ætla að nota verkefnin sjálfur til að hjálpa mínum að rifja upp og gá hvort við verðum einhvers vísari um hegðun þeirra.

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Now remember how we used to do that. three from two is nine; carry the one, and
if you’re under 35 or went to a private school you say seven from three is six,
but if you’re over 35 and went to a public school you say eight from four is
six; carry the one so we have 169, but in the new approach, as you know, the
important thing is to understand what you’re doing rather than to get the right
answer. Here’s how they do it now.

You can’t take three from two,
Two is less than three,
So you look at the four in the tens place.
Now that’s really four tens,
So you make it three tens,
Regroup, and you change a ten to ten ones,
And you add them to the two and get twelve,
And you take away three, that’s nine.
Is that clear?

Now instead of four in the tens place
You’ve got three,
‘Cause you added one,
That is to say, ten, to the two,
But you can’t take seven from three,
So you look in the hundreds place.

From the three you then use one
To make ten ones…
(And you know why four plus minus one
Plus ten is fourteen minus one?
‘Cause addition is commutative, right.)
And so you have thirteen tens,
And you take away seven,
And that leaves five…

Well, six actually.
But the idea is the important thing.

Now go back to the hundreds place,
And you’re left with two.
And you take away one from two,
And that leaves…?

Everybody get one?
Not bad for the first day!

Hooray for new math,
New-hoo-hoo-math,
It won’t do you a bit of good to review math.
It’s so simple,
So very simple,
That only a child can do it!
Now that actually is not the answer that I had in mind, because the book that I
got this problem out of wants you to do it in base eight. But don’t panic. Base
eight is just like base ten really – if you’re missing two fingers. Shall we
have a go at it? Hang on.

You can’t take three from two,
Two is less than three,
So you look at the four in the eights place.
Now that’s really four eights,
So you make it three eights,
Regroup, and you change an eight to eight ones,
And you add them to the two,
and you get one-two base eight,
Which is ten base ten,
And you take away three, that’s seven.

Now instead of four in the eights place
You’ve got three,
‘Cause you added one,
That is to say, eight, to the two,
But you can’t take seven from three,
So you look at the sixty-fours.

“Sixty-four? How did sixty-four get into it?” I hear you cry.
Well, sixty-four is eight squared, don’t you see?
(Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.)

From the three you then use one
To make eight ones,
And you add those ones to the three,
And you get one-three base eight,
Or, in other words,
In base ten you have eleven,
And you take away seven,
And seven from eleven is four.
Now go back to the sixty-fours,
And you’re left with two,
And you take away one from two,
And that leaves…?

Now, let’s not always see the same hands.
One, that’s right!
Whoever got one can stay after the show and clean the erasers.

Hooray for new math,
New-hoo-hoo-math,
It won’t do you a bit of good to review math.
It’s so simple,
So very simple,
That only a child can do it!

Come back tomorrow night. We’re gonna do fractions.
Now I’ve often thought I’d like to write a mathematics text book someday because I have
a title that I know will sell a million copies. I’m gonna call it Tropic Of
Calculus.

Afritað án leyfis héðan.

Þeir sem komust hingað fá líka að læra um frumefnin …

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This little backwards poem was an instant hit with some of my students. They liked it so much they learned it by heart. One of them tried to translate it into Icelandic.

A longer and more learned version may be found at the British Columbia Folklore Society website.

It runs like this:

One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys* got up to fight, [*or men]
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other,

One was blind and the other couldn’t, see
So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play,
A dumb man went to shout “hooray!”

A paralysed donkey passing by,
Kicked the blind man in the eye,
Knocked him through a nine inch wall,
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,

A deaf policeman heard the noise,
And came to arrest the two dead boys,
If you don’t believe this story’s true,
Ask the blind man he saw it too!

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