Praying Colonel
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- Aug 16, 2004
Higher math.
DH is a mathematician and he doesn't get that it doesn't make sense to me. It is literally as if he is speaking a different language. Now, English, history, bio, lit, I am all over that and did well in school but math does me in! Interestingly, I do "get" music even though there is a correlation between math and music abilities.
Two things:
1. Geometry isn't math
2. The internet works because of magic and electricity (you need both)
I was going to say I was terrible at math because I didn't understand Geometry at all!! Hated it!!
But since Geometry isn't math....I guess I'm good!
Thanks!
Two things:
1. Geometry isn't math
2. The internet works because of magic and electricity (you need both)
I was going to say I was terrible at math because I didn't understand Geometry at all!! Hated it!!
But since Geometry isn't math....I guess I'm good!
Thanks!
I simply do not get music - at least, the academic aspects of it. I can dig a good tune as much as the next guy. But when people start talking about time signatures, chords, minor keys, flat this and sharp that, they might as well be speaking in Swahili.
The little guy that Mrs. Homie babysits (turns three in December) watches Little Einsteins(?), and it teaches kids about music. They have this sequence where they pat their knees in time to the music, with emphasis on certain beats, and I'm still lost. I remember back in first grade, our music teacher teaching the same thing (patting on the knees in time, emphasis on certain beats), and I was utterly lost. I just gave up and waved my hands around.
Similarly, math has always been my Achilles Heel. I'm pushing 50 and I can barely handle simple arithmetic. Seriously: I almost need a calculator to keep score in pinochle.
I enjoyed math until calculus. Never got it, never will.
I simply do not get music - at least, the academic aspects of it. I can dig a good tune as much as the next guy. But when people start talking about time signatures, chords, minor keys, flat this and sharp that, they might as well be speaking in Swahili.
The little guy that Mrs. Homie babysits (turns three in December) watches Little Einsteins(?), and it teaches kids about music. They have this sequence where they pat their knees in time to the music, with emphasis on certain beats, and I'm still lost. I remember back in first grade, our music teacher teaching the same thing (patting on the knees in time, emphasis on certain beats), and I was utterly lost. I just gave up and waved my hands around.
Similarly, math has always been my Achilles Heel. I'm pushing 50 and I can barely handle simple arithmetic. Seriously: I almost need a calculator to keep score in pinochle.
Same with me ad DH. I think math was never something I had to work at or actually think about until I got to calculus. Then it stopped being fun, and by that time in my life I was old enough not to care to make a bigger effort. Also, I had an absolutely crazy calc professor my first semester of college. His curve was immense, so I ended up with a B.