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There's a girl I'm seeing and she's got a younger brother in 2nd grade.. they refer to dividing as "winking" and quadrupling is "budrupples". Numbers that are multiplied are "wupples". This just seems ridiculous to me, I never had any of this stuff. Is this pretty standard throughout the country now or is it just something in this particular school?
There's a girl I'm seeing and she's got a younger brother in 2nd grade.. they refer to dividing as "winking" and quadrupling is "budrupples". Numbers that are multiplied are "wupples". This just seems ridiculous to me, I never had any of this stuff. Is this pretty standard throughout the country now or is it just something in this particular school?
No idea.
But to get my students to remember to put unit on all their measurements (I teach science) I have a no "naked numbers" rule. My sophomores spend a few minutes a day giggling over "math porn" when some puts a problem on the board without "pants" on.
Silly as it is, it helps them remember. Maybe the same thing for your kid?
There's a girl I'm seeing and she's got a younger brother in 2nd grade.. they refer to dividing as "winking" and quadrupling is "budrupples". Numbers that are multiplied are "wupples". This just seems ridiculous to me, I never had any of this stuff. Is this pretty standard throughout the country now or is it just something in this particular school?
There's a girl I'm seeing and she's got a younger brother in 2nd grade.. they refer to dividing as "winking" and quadrupling is "budrupples". Numbers that are multiplied are "wupples". This just seems ridiculous to me, I never had any of this stuff. Is this pretty standard throughout the country now or is it just something in this particular school?
In my sophomore year my teacher used to remind us when to factor by saying to get the answer you gotta F it when there is square root to make it a "family"
SO basically he's saying you have to "F" (Be creative here) the problem (mom) to get 2 (mom and baby aka the 2 parenthesis)
Ah. Ok. However, the terms are not being substituted for the normal terms. Wubbles and Budruples are story creatures that double and quadruple, respectively.
This week our most fun lesson was our Wubbles lessons. In this lesson we continue to look at multiplication but in a different way. A Wubble is a creature who doubles every day. You were only allowed to bring one friend home for Spring Vacation, yet by the end of the trip you were left with 128 Wubbles. What are you going to do? You’re probably going to get in trouble with your mother if she finds out! Ask your second grader and see if they remember our solution to this odd problem.
The Budruples are creatures that quadruple in a lesson in unit 7.4 in this pdf file
http://www.npenn.org/5577702194035/lib/5577702194035/Unit_7.pdf (broken link)
They are on page 12 of the pdf in lesson 7.4
Winking means dividing by 4 (or quartering) in the same lesson (it doesn't generically mean to divide.
This is a lesson on using calculators to find patterns, btw, not an actual lesson on division.
I've used Every Day Math when subbing, and I've never heard of those terms. I did a bit of researching, and I think it is a critical thinking lesson. It doesn't appear that they are always called that. If they do always refer to the skills by the odd terms, make that reason #5421 that I hate Every Day Math.
Teachers often have a strange saying/name/label to get kids to remember things. In my class 'sweaty leaves' is transpiration, LOL.
Is the teacher a big purple dinosaur named Barney?
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