Today I was privileged to listen to my daughter’s math class by videoconferencing. She loves her teacher, and is excited to do the work most weeks. It seems to me that the curriculum in math is far advanced from what I was expected to know, with probability being the days lesson. Some of Princess Pirate's classes, like the volume of a rectangular prism, remind me of calculus in first year University; not middle school!
For the last few year, she and her friends have been calling things random, that are ENTIRELY predictable. As an obsessive, this has driven me a little NUTS at times. But today, listening to her class, I felt a little nostalgic. After many corrections of the meaning, and still using the word randomly improperly, it may be that she will learn and apply the meaning from today forward properly, and that will be the end of an era of innocence that quite foolishly I may miss.
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