{"id":343,"date":"2014-08-10T21:41:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T02:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2015-10-13T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:46:35","slug":"almost-ready-to-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/10\/almost-ready-to-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost ready to count!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After many weeks of thinking and writing, at last I have posted the first major chunk of my math relearning project<\/a>. The result: I now know what a number is<\/a>. I still need to write about place value and some fundamental math concepts, but after that I’ll learn how to count. (That’s why I couldn’t tell you how many weeks it’s been.)<\/p>\n

I’ve decided that rotating through my subject areas one per day wasn’t satisfying enough, so now I’m trying a week per area. At the end of each week I decide whether to continue with that area or switch to another. So far it’s mostly been math every week, but I’ve also been reading about Eastern Orthodoxy. I don’t know if or what I’ll write about that or when. The problems with one area per day were that I couldn’t get much done in one day, and some days I’d have other things to do, so I’d have to wait a week to get back to that subject.<\/p>\n

I’m hoping the rest of this math project won’t take so long. I think the reasons this first section did are that I was analyzing concepts I normally take for granted, I was translating the methods for teaching children into the underlying concepts those lessons implied, I was reorganizing the material I read to create a new synthesis, which always takes forever, and I wasn’t thinking much about how I could do all that in shorter iterations. But hopefully for the rest of the project the analysis will become more straightforward as the topics progress.<\/p>\n

This week I’m going to try to tie up the loose ends on some of my other projects, so I’ll be doing my daily subject rotation again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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