Okay, as much as I like RightStart overall, I think that "Yellow Is the Sun" poem for teaching what makes ten is abysmal. Really. It's nonsense.
BUT!
I just found this at David Darcy's blog. So clever! I think I'm going to teach it to my kids, even though we're already past that stage in math. Well, some days Kid2 is sort of wobbly on What Makes Ten, but we're theoretically past it...do you really ever get past What Makes Ten, really? Hmmm....
Actually, I just discovered David Darcy's blog, via a link in ... hmm ... someone else's blog ... dang, I was so excited about the Ten Poem I lost track of who it was, so I can't link them. Sorry. Anyway, I'm off to uncover other gems.
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His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools – the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans – and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”
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- I am quite average. Except for my height. And weight. And my TV viewing habits are sort of odd. And the general cluelessness about contemporary pop culture that flows from that lack of TV viewing. And let's not even get started about the way we eat around here, what with allergies and all, there's no way that's average. And then there's the whole homeschooling business ....
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I love David Darcy's blog, too. And his books. He's a genius!
Ever tried Muggins Math.......
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