[M.D. Holloway]

Thom - this is interesting. I want to learn more about this. I've been working with my son on his math skills, he does very well in math but struggles big time with spelling and reading and writing. He also has had speech classes sense he was 2. We work many hours on that as well but he gravitates towrds math because he does well in it so I say lets build on his strengh.

What Dr. Wildberger is on to may provide insight but it also makes me think about how to teach fundimental math skill to kids. You can have them count their figers and so forth or try to visualize the number of objects and count up or take away or they can just memorize that 3+3 = 6. Not sure what the best way is. I do all sorts of these with Max and he seems to catch on each way. Multiplication will be interesting. I took 3 years of calc and diffy Q's in college - the concepts were tough to memorize than the "tricks" and equations. I wish I spent more time understanding math and how to truely apply it rather than the ol plug n chug.