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Eva is working with Celsius in math.
Dec. 4th, 2014 06:50 pmThe temperatures aren't intuitive to her, but whatever. Some of what she's doing is identifying whether a temperature signifies "a nice spring day" or "snowy weather" or "a mild fever", which requires her to think. (It makes me think too, carefully saying aloud the procedure for converting from Celsius to Fahrenheit. I'm inordinately proud of being able to do that.)
Eva can work from the touchstones of 0 - 37 - 100 if she tries, but to help her out I gave her the same mnemonic I learned (and then passed on to Ana) two years ago: 30 is hot, 20 is nice, 10 is cold, 0 is...
When I told Ana that, she automatically finished with "ice". Eva said "freezing", which is true, but...
You know, now that I think about it, this is a longstanding thing of hers. She doesn't make rhymes. I mean, she CAN rhyme, if I tell her to give me a rhyme for bat she'll say cat and whatever, but she doesn't grasp where the obvious rhyme should go. I recite a bit of doggeral or a bit from a more hifalutin' poem, and at the end Ana will pop up with the obvious rhyme and Eva will say something totally different, and she doesn't even realize she's doing it.
Should I be concerned about this?
Eva can work from the touchstones of 0 - 37 - 100 if she tries, but to help her out I gave her the same mnemonic I learned (and then passed on to Ana) two years ago: 30 is hot, 20 is nice, 10 is cold, 0 is...
When I told Ana that, she automatically finished with "ice". Eva said "freezing", which is true, but...
You know, now that I think about it, this is a longstanding thing of hers. She doesn't make rhymes. I mean, she CAN rhyme, if I tell her to give me a rhyme for bat she'll say cat and whatever, but she doesn't grasp where the obvious rhyme should go. I recite a bit of doggeral or a bit from a more hifalutin' poem, and at the end Ana will pop up with the obvious rhyme and Eva will say something totally different, and she doesn't even realize she's doing it.
Should I be concerned about this?
