I do love YouTube for just this kind of thing - I recently found a few videos of NEw Math and played them for the kiddoes (Ms. A was trying to explain borrowing to me over dinner one night.)
Yes, I've had a lot of fun digging up Tom Lehrer obscurities, Monty Python clips, etc. The kids ask to see the dead parrot sketch.
Predictably, Secundo loved "New Math" also. I was on a math committee this year and was shocked that few of the math teachers seemed to know it, esp. since it's been the same debate for 40 years ("The important thing is to understand what you're doing rather than to get the right answer").
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D introduced both our kids to this song and they like it a lot. We have it on CD and on mp3s, but I'd not seen the YouTube of it before.
I do love YouTube for just this kind of thing - I recently found a few videos of NEw Math and played them for the kiddoes (Ms. A was trying to explain borrowing to me over dinner one night.)
Yes, I've had a lot of fun digging up Tom Lehrer obscurities, Monty Python clips, etc. The kids ask to see the dead parrot sketch.
Predictably, Secundo loved "New Math" also. I was on a math committee this year and was shocked that few of the math teachers seemed to know it, esp. since it's been the same debate for 40 years ("The important thing is to understand what you're doing rather than to get the right answer").
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