tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574223215555408216.post7578384526947295264..comments2022-11-03T01:35:40.630+13:00Comments on Lisa's Life from Wellington.: Rose Tinted Glasses: A Psychic and SkepticsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207809455933375979noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574223215555408216.post-60839188022742754072013-09-09T22:00:07.996+12:002013-09-09T22:00:07.996+12:00Thank you for your message Mark.
I've also fo...Thank you for your message Mark. <br />I've also found a 'trick' around times tables, there's a whole "other" way of doing them. A lot of asian students learn it. (It's a pattern technique which breaks the equation into pieces.) It's like this one here: http://splitmultigradeclassroom.blogspot.co.nz/2011/12/lattice-multiplication.html<br /><br />I do know 'some' of the times tables. - I remember my parents had a deal with me, if I learned all of them - and could prove it by a verbal test by my father he would buy me a bike. Needless to say I kept trying, and failing, and I still don't have a bike! :) Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09207809455933375979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574223215555408216.post-21310459227884149992013-09-09T09:17:55.849+12:002013-09-09T09:17:55.849+12:00Nice post Lisa. I'm sorry to say that I used t...Nice post Lisa. I'm sorry to say that I used to be one of the people who fell for the misconception that people with dyslexia are lazy or stupid. I fully realise now that's not the case, though. It was interesting to hear Pamela Gay saying she's dyslexic herself. She tweeted about Sue's comment on not reading books: https://twitter.com/starstryder/status/376207632052551680<br /><br />"Listening to Sue Nicholson saddens me. Hearing the dead & dyslexia aren't reason enough for not exploring intellectual endeavors #NZSkepConf"<br /><br /><br />On your note of not knowing multiplication tables, to be honest I think that could be used to your advantage. I studied engineering at University, so have grown accustomed to a certain amount of mental arithmetic, and I have never found multiplication tables to be much more than useless. I generally find myself doing multiplications in 10s and 2s. For example, if I'm trying to multiply something (let's call it x) by 7, I split it up into easier calculations like this:<br /><br />Multiply x by 10<br />Divide by 2<br />Add x times 2<br /><br />Multiplying by 10 is really easy - just add a 0 at the end. Those numbers are really easy to divide by 2 as well, and multiplication by 2 is also very easy. So, for example, I don't jump straight from 8*7 to 56. Instead, I go from 8 to 80, then to 40, then add 16.<br /><br />Pretty much any multiplication can be easily converted into a set of 10s and 2s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com