Ana took her mother's work iPad to school and filmed all her friends at lunch

[conuly]

I'm sure it's a cute video, but I couldn't bring myself to watch - the thought of what could've happened with that illegally snuck out iPad turned my stomach! (And that's not the most shocking misbehavior the nieces have had this week. I won't tell you the rest of it, it makes us all look incompetent.)

In other news, she's up to easy long division with remainders (that is, only with the 2s or 3s times table, and only into double digit numbers) in her "extra math". This is clearly not coming easily to her (although I must say I was astonished at how quickly she picked up multiplication where you have to carry!), but she's getting it. I'm not sure she understands why the procedure works, though, and I kinda want her to. Help?

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[siderea]

Does she understand currency? I'd demonstrate it with dimes and pennies. "Three people want to split 54 cents fairly. Here's five dimes and 4 pennies. How would you do that?" (Expecting to have to provide the idea of "making change" with 20 additional pennies, and explaining that's what carrying is.) Let me know if you need me to unpack that further.

[conuly]

Oooh, that makes a lot of sense. (And what kid doesn't understand money? Certainly they've been inundated with the subject since kindergarten.)

Autism and your profile

[astrologyisfake.livejournal.com]

I have Asperger's, and it is thanks to you and lurking in your LJ (a few years ago, that is) that I learned how evil Autism Speaks is. (On Facebook, some of my autistic friends and I call them Autism $peaks, the greedy bastards). I know Ari Ne'eman personally, and he is made of awesome. An intern of his and one of my friends blogs as Autistic Hoya, and she's a very good writer.

In other news, your LJ profile is extremely out of date, as your nieces hardly qualify as "infant and toddler" anymore.

Re: Autism and your profile

[conuly]

Yes, I know it's out of date. Right now I'm too lazy to change it, though as you're the second person to mention it I might just clear it for a time while I think of what to say!