Today is the second Friday the 13th in a row. I asked my class (thanks to SJ's recommended site) why it happened. They all freaked out about having to think. I wanted to cry. I mean really, aren't questions like this more fun than bisecting angles?
When I was delivering mail to my fellow East Campusites this afternoon I noticed a bulletin board showing we've had 8 left handed presidents. I made a comment about saying it would be interesting to compare that percentage (18.6) to the general population (7-10). She looked at me knowingly and said "... blog post?"
It's a good thing I'm comfortable with my geekyness, because there is no hiding it.
Of course, I now feel I need to compare other world leaders handedness and add it to my stats...
***UPDATE***
I asked Boy and Girly the same question on the drive home today. It took some work, but Boy got to "because it is divisible by 7"! I lead him into why the 7 was magic, and what the pattern was, but I was very pleased that my biologicals didn't give up when it got hard. Having a math geek for a mom pays off eventually.
5 comments:
I've often noticed that many people who I admire are left handed. My totally untested theory is that left handed people have to learn to do so many things right-handed that they utilize more of their brains than right handed people who have it easy.
Ahh Beth.... this does explain why we have always clicked - I'm a lefty! And don't worry Rach, I'm so geeky I RSS feed a lefty blog!
This lefty has another theory about why there are two Fridays the 13th in a row: it's because the first one was so successful, they rushed to put out a sequel.
Now that's a left-hander's reply.
I'm right-handed, except in sports where I'm a lefty. I was the only lefty gymnast on my team. What does that say about me and can we figure out the percentage of people who share this quirk?
And, I had a student get mad at me yesterday because I asked her to "think"; I just wanted her to refine some questions for a research paper (we're not even at writing the thing, we're just at coming up with a proposal). She was seriously whining at me about her head hurting.
Students need to be taught to think.
If teachers and parents explicitly teach it (lots of think alouds!) at a young age, they grow into teenagers who know the process and can muddle their way through the complexity with more confidence and less resistance.
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