Thursday, April 26, 2012

L'oeuvre des enfants

The iphone is our main method of preserving the flood of creative works generated by the kids :-)

The boy is starting to learn algebra at age 6. I wish I had had someone around to teach it to me. My dad the professor spent very little time on that sort of thing. I grew up like the Draper kids in Mad Men.

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  1. botti8:59 PM

    You still turned out alright :)

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  2. The internet was certainly much leaner for easily accessible technical topics in the late 90s early 00s when I was in school. Calculus would have been easy to learn as a kid if I knew about Silvanus P Thompson's - Calculus Made Easy  http://djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Thompson.pdf which is in the public domain.

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  3. Roy Christmann9:22 PM

    where do you start?  any resources you're using? my 5 yr old just had her WPPSI, 145 IQ. I've already been talking to her about very basic concepts like substitution, such as knowing 6 +7 = 13, what is 7 + 7? she will count from 7; I'm trying to get her to think 7 = 6 + 1.

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  4. Ken Condon10:46 AM

    Perhaps Prof. Hsu they will “get back” at you and become art majors…..Oh the humanities!

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  5.  If it's plural, then it should be "les ouvres des enfants"

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  6. Not necessarily.  The work of children can certainly be collective, n'est-ce pas?

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