I'm so old I Remember when:

[jxp]

My DH is weird and can do a lot of things most people can't such as twirling three hula hoops, walking on stilts, riding a unicycle, can juggle three-four of about anything, and can make you go "Oh My God" when he's on the monkey bars. He's 61. I will ask him if he can twirl one of his hula hoops clockwise as I never paid attention to which direction he was doing it, but I'll dare bet he can.

Did he grow up in Sarasota?

 

[jxp]

I used to make paper airplanes, set them on fire with a magnifying glass and throw them out of my second story window.

Scamp. I bet you kept the grown ups busy.

 

[theoldchick]

 

[NanaK]

I used to make paper airplanes, set them on fire with a magnifying glass and throw them out of my second story window.

Boys!

 

[theoldchick]

Wow! My son, through trial and error, designed an airplane that looked a lot like the one on the cover of this book, when he was in about 7th grade as I recall. It flew almost all the way down the length of the school gym. He would love to have a copy of this book!

Look on Ebay. They have various books on making paper airplanes.

 

[theoldchick]

 

[tripletfeb]

Right! Math was math was math was math. You multiplied straight up and down, not diagonally like a cockeyed pirate! Whose damfool idea was that, I'd like to know? Should be strung up by his thumbs. How's a parent supposed to help her fourth grader with multiplication when the parent can't make head or tails out of it?!?

 

[Sally PB]

He said yes, he can, but it's harder because he's right-handed.

Interesting!

So am I, and so was Suzanne, my best friend. She could run faster, jump higher, do cartwheels, and I never saw her hula hoop clockwise. I never thought to correlate hula hooping to handedness.

I never did learn how to do a cartwheel.

 

[Evadig]

Right! Math was math was math was math. You multiplied straight up and down, not diagonally like a cockeyed pirate! Whose damfool idea was that, I'd like to know? Should be strung up by his thumbs. How's a parent supposed to help her fourth grader with multiplication when the parent can't make head or tails out of it?!?

When I was majoring in elementary education there was a whole course on the different ways to teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Most of it was ridiculous but there were a couple methods that made much more sense to me than the traditional one.

 

[RoyalChick]

When I was majoring in elementary education there was a whole course on the different ways to teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Most of it was ridiculous but there were a couple methods that made much more sense to me than the traditional one.

Wow. Do tell!