quiltingshorttimer

Back before "No Child Left Behind" meant teaching to a test, I worked with an 8th grade math teacher that introduced the basics and then immediately brought in real life applications--kids signed up for a group project and she taught the rest of the year by manipulating the real life applications so that each group had to show mastery of each concept. An excellent teacher that got burnt out when we started testing kids to death. Glad to see that Common Core is making kids think again and really learn!

P.S. Glad to see you back after surgery, Jan!

Onebyone

I was taught to read a ruler in fourth and fifth grades when we were learning fractions. I taught my kids how to as it wasn't taught at their school. They didn't learn how to read a ruler in Geometry class. Do you know if your grands or kids can read a ruler? I'm teaching my four year old grand now how to count the lines between the big numbers. He figured out there was the same number of lines between each.

bearisgray

I sat in on the "remedial math" classes at the local community college.

A fair amount of time was spent on reading a ruler - some of the quiz questions were:

Which is longer = 5/8 or 3/4? How long is the distance between the 1-1/4 and 2-7/8 marks on a ruler?

I was surprised at how many people did not seem to know how much "a yard" was when they were at a cutting table.

For those that know both the metric system and system mostly used in the USA - which is easier for sewing?