Weathers the same here - cool and wet. Fall is here and winter's just around the corner ...whoo hooo (can you tell I love the cold weather?)! I hope it snows here in MD - we hardly had any last year. Kinda makes it hard to sled or snowboard (that would be my kids. The last time I tried to snowboard - I landed flat on my back looking up at the sky!). Plus, I missed having snowball fights with my girls.

GAMom - when you make the connection, let me in on it!

CC - maybe thats my problem with algebra, I'm not really into puzzle solving. I enjoy putting puzzles together, but that's about the extent of it!

I love somany aspects of being creative, but none of them involve a pattern- I can sew a mean costume- WITHOUT A PATTERN. I can make crazy quilts- WITHOUT A PATTERN. String art- FRUSTRATING!
How's the weather everyone? The first day of fall... cool, wet and so many colors of leaves blowing in the wind. Instant!

There are so many art forms that use math functions - string art being one of the most impressive! When I was in school I loved math the most only because I love to solve puzzles of all kinds and algebra is a lot like puzzle solving. That said, though, I recently sat down with a Business Math Demystified book and spent an hour on Chapter One - Fractions Review. Surely this was all stuff I learned in, like, 6th grade but since I never needed to apply it after high school, I lost it all. Now, 25 years later, I need to apply it and am having to teach myself all over again. Next chapter - Decimal Review. Woooooo Hooo I can hardly wait......

t--i feel your pain. Right now I am taking "Number systems for the elementary teacher", and it focuses on how to teach children this stuff. But we too are getting into the algebra part of it. We were told that it will help us make the connections and help us teach the kids the regular math. ok, whatever they say.

I am surprised that as an art teacher you would need it, but maybe that is from NCLB and the highly qualified teacher comes in. Just think though--you can have your students draw equations!

the kicker for me is that the left side of my brian works fine! I LOVE science - took advace courses in it. And I can "reason" myself into or out of just about anything! I just don't get the whole
"y=mx+b" thing (for those of you who don't remember algebra, that is the formula for finding the slope of a line. Usefull, huh!). Just doesn't make sense to me.
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but enough about that. Love the rest of my courses, so there's my sliver lining [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 09-24-2006, 01:58 PM: Message edited by: tlch1967 ]

tlch, i thnk theyre just making sure you have a left brain too (science/reasonings center)and notjjust a right brain (creative/abstract centers).ie they want to know your head is round. as agood a reason as any, in education, seems lots is a mystery, from reading these other current threads!