“My teacher does not do it that way!”
Method 1
Multiply 143 by 276.
143
x 276
858
etc etc
Method 2
Multiply 143 by 276.
|
x
|
100
|
40
|
3
|
|
200
|
20000
|
8000
|
600
|
|
70
|
7000
|
2800
|
210
|
|
6
|
600
|
240
|
18
|
We know that some children can be placed in a group called `The
Highly Creative’. Other children may be thought of as `The High Intelligence
Group’.
If we look back to our school days it is likely that some teachers
would have preferred to teach the `High Intelligence Group’.
If we offer the two different methods of multiplication to be
considered by our immediate family we may find some embracing the `new’ way of
doing the multiplication.
The factors affecting the decisions made by the family would need
to include:
The age of the parents and, possibly, the age of the grandparents
The education and occupation of the various members of the family
How much the parents are satisfied with the school in general and
the National Curriculum in particular.
Would highly creative parents grasp the nettle and learn a new way
of multiplying, or would this be left to the highly intelligent?
Reassuring for every eleven plus child is the confidence that
their parents are both highly creative and highly intelligent!
