Maths for The Wayward Child

Maths For The Wayward Child.

Okay, so I left school at the age of 14 years with only three `O Levels`: one for smoking, one for swearing and I daren't tell you what the third was for except to say that all the girls in our school loved me.

So ... I'm only joking but the truth is that I left school without a qualification to my name. I enjoyed most of the subjects in school such as History, Geography, English and woodwork but I hated Maths! I would rather visit the school dentist and have a tooth pulled than attend a maths class.

When I was unable to avoid the maths class I would copy the answers off my best friend, who later married my wife's sister and we remain friends to this day. He was a wizard at maths and all that jazz and I was a complete Duffer. If he was unable to answer a question, he would write "I cannot answer this question." on his paper, I would look at his paper and then write on mine, "Neither can I." Of course I was accused of copying and given the cane and you know what, it took me a long time to discover how the teacher knew I was copying my friend's work, Stupid!

All that aside, I must tell you that I was surfing the net the other day when I came across a wonderful system of teaching maths. Anyone with a wayward child or a child that is unable to concentrate for more than a few minutes this system would be of enormous help.

This sytem encrypts the numbers 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.0. into a `Secret Code` that is to say that the numbers are represented by symbols which make the system so interesting to children.

because it's a secret code, the child finds the mystery of it intrigueing and it captures his/her interest from the first moments. What the child has to do is to change the symbols back into numbers, do the mathematical sum and then re-encrypt the answer and it is this secret element that maintains the interest of the child.

The product provides one with plenty of Worksheets and I'm sure that the sheets would be easy to photrocopy or scan on a home computer, should more be needed. More importantly, although the product is as cheap as chips, don't think that it is of poor quality. In my opinion it is one of the best teaching aids I have ever seen. Anyway, should you be interested, MMay I suggest that you take a look at: http://howie100.codemath.hop.clickbank.net