A sea of yellow.
If Captain Chaos made it in there, I’m not sure we would get him out this side of Christmas. If I played golf I bet my ball would definitely land somewhere in that.
So the home at school project is back. Over two years now. Wow two years.
It’s only been a two week school break but so much has been forgotten, by parent and pupil. Trigonometry was mastered, two weeks later it might as well be a cross stitching pattern. Intricate, perplexing, ultimately an unfathomable jumble. Forgetting things is very understandable with my Sinclair ZX81 of a brain (an ancient first try at a home computer which was as powerful as my left buttock). But Hawklad should be different, he has an amazing memory. No he can’t remember any Trig from two weeks back yet ask him about things that interest him and it’s almost PERFECT TOTAL RECALL. Remember stuff from years back. That’s the secret, stuff that interests him.
Sadly British Secondary Education doesn’t fall into that interest bracket……
A Dad trying to cope with the loss of his Partner and becoming a single parent. 
I think that I’ve forgotten all trigonometry that I knew but then it’s more like 48 years ago
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We don’t tend to use it much do we
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Not in my daily life! 😎
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He will have a brilliant career in something…just not in everything, and who does?
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It’s about finding the right way
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Exactly.
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Good luck with that.
I gave up maths when they said a+b=c
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And that’s exactly what I taught my daughter to understand math. She was completely enchanted that there was a variable value … and she was still in kindergarten😁🌹
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Ah. I was probably too old then.
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Wow that’s some going
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That’s the stuff of Harry Potter with that equation
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TBH I think that’s perfectly normal
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It’s good to know its not just us
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😎
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Let’s see. Sines? Cosines? I think those are trig words. But what they mean? No idea!
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At present I haven’t got a clue
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I learned it in about 1964 or 5. I have NEVER used it once sin e then.
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I cannot believe I missed sn “opporpunity”: Sines and cosines are actually “trig-ger” words, reminding me of my mostly useless high school education!
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Can’t miss those opportunities 😆
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Opporpunities, Gary. Oppor”pun”ities!
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Only thing I can remember from my school days vaguely is art, which I loved and how to wire up a plug which I learnt in Physics when I was 13. But already knew how beforehand on how to do this, with being taught at home.
Oh and dissecting an eye ball in Biology because there was no way I was going to touch it. And I didn’t.
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I can remember the Art teacher being ridiculously strict.
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I had lovely art teachers.
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I was a home schooler once, and can remember wrestling with equasions and things I still can’t pronounce. Have either me or my pupil ever had reason to use any of it, nah…
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That’s the problem, it feels like we teach the wrong things
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I know what you mean, I never learned much at school, we moved around too much. We learn best living, I think…
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I understand every nuance in this. Thankyou.
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Thank you
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It’s a very difficult situation for you both, but I often think formal education is overrated. Maybe because my own education was such a patchwork.
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I think it is
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If I don’t take care, I have such field covering my whole garden. It is precious rapeseed but still a pain if you would like to have other plants too.
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You can see it spreading into other fields. That’s a huge problem
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I totally hear you!!
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That’s pure fact, l can remember everything that meant something to me or l held close in the fascination department, but anything that was pointless and useless …. ahem, let’s move on shall we…
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Let’s move on
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford.
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Thank you
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At this point in life, I can confidently say the I’ve forgotten more than I know
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Wait…What?!?! Perfect recall?!! Awesome sauce!! My nephew has the eidetic blessing too. What subjects are activators for Hawklad?
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