this page says it all

[jennickels]

Was looking through my scrapbook pages and this one page just says it all about Meagan and the problems we're having with her homework.

It was true back in 2nd grade just as it is in 6th grade.
Things don't really change much.

Oh, and tonight Owen was doing math just for fun.  Or to tick Meagan off, one or the other.  I guess they're working on multiplying larger numbers so he was making up math problems to test himself.  For fun.  Meagan was mad because she can't even remember her multiplication tables and he's reciting them from memory and doing the math in his head (2 digit numbers multiplied by 1 digit number).  She had to write it down on paper to figure it out.  It's funny how different they are.  Reading came naturally to Meagan, language arts are a snap.  Anything that has to do with reading she breezes through but she just doesn't get match.  Owen, on the other hand never grasped reading.  He could barely read at a low 1st grade level when he started 3rd grade last year (he's mostly caught up to his grade level now) and because of that he's struggled in just about every topic, dislikes reading and HATES to write.  But math has always come easily to him.  He's been known to help Meagan with her math and he's 2 grades behind her.

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[thothmes.livejournal.com]

I have only 3 first cousins, all male, the children of my father's sister.

The first one was very good at reading and language, but only so-so at math.

The second was very good at math, but rather so-so with language.

The third one was athletic and good at both, but not as good at language and reading as his eldest brother, nor was he as good at math as his second brother.

It was like there was a sliding scale with a fixed number of intelligence points. One brother slid to the right, the other to the left, and the third stayed smack dab in the middle, and on average they were all equally bright!

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

Me and my brother are complete opposites when it comes to school. I had all the smarts...both language arts and math. My brother had neither and has always struggled in school in every subject. I'm still convinced he has a learning disability or dyslexia. I convinced my parents to have him tested when he was like 10 but they said he was just lazy with his work but he has all the classic signs of dyslexia. He's 32 (almost 33) now and I've tried to encourage him to get retested because he was still in college and struggling to pass basic chem and stuff.

On my dad's side of the family I have just 5 cousins and I think me and my brother are the only ones that didn't graduate from college. Except maybe my middle cousin who has schizophrenia. My oldest cousin's kids are all graduates or in college. Her oldest went to the University of Hawaii on a full volleyball scholarship and now plays professionally in California. Her son just graduated from Columbia University in Chicago and her youngest is in college this year at DePaul. They apparently have all the brains and ambition, lol.

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

I also loved reading and hated math, and procrastinated wildly on every bit of math homework ever given to me. That's why I'm an accountant now. Punishment. *sigh*

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

Oh the irony. That has to suck. I was good at both reading and math. I hated science and history as a kid though. Science because there was just too many details to remember and I think history because I never had a good teacher until college. He made me fall in love with history because he wasn't obsessed with the details and the dates. In high school I spent all my time memorizing dates and succession lines of European royalty and other crap I didn't care about. And then promptly forgetting it all. In college we actually talked about what life was like during those times and what was actually going on, not just what the books said.

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

I didn't have to expend much effort to memorize things, so I never minded that sort of thing. I loved science and history, as well as literature. Doing math all day was pretty much my nightmare, and still is. I've really managed to screw up my life thoroughly I'm afraid.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

I like doing algebra. The problems are like little puzzles to figure out. I loved algebra homework.