I thought that well ....you might like this....I certainly did....It is in the fun of it all that makes me like it...I was not around for the "New Math"....In fact I devised my own new math long before it came out....I used it on the numbers that were hard like 7, and numbers that had 4 numbers or larger....I cannot explain it to you....but....I think Tom does a great job here....He was definitely a genius of sorts....too far ahead of his time....to be sure....but not understood or appreciated in this country....
When he did his show though, it was appreciated by the masses of academia....but he was much older than I.... soooo New Math was out before me....not after me....I just jumped up into Algebra and Trig and math got left behind...."Give me an X....Give me a Y" ha ha....I love the lettered numbers....maybe I should write a song about them...
However, I have been working on a song about multiplication....need the right hook....so the hard numbers can be easier....sort of like Jimminy Crickets'...."E N C Y C L O P E D I A"....you know that is why we can all spell encyclopedia now....I am right....little things like rhythm are easier to remember...ask any neurologist...I still remember the poem I memorized in grade school to recite in front of the class,,,,Little Boy Blue by Eugene Fields....and my adverbs from the 7th grade, because they put them into a rhythm and taught them to us that way...I would imagine every single child in that class remembers them as do I.... simply because of the rhythm..
It's the little things...(as Rodney Carrington assures us..ha ha)...that are important...
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