193075 Resource 101842 2154 2154 1198430612491 1198431723883 Controlled Math Skills

Frankie's math skills have been astounding us lately.

<p>This morning Andy was posing algebraic math questions to Frankie. He first asked if Frankie could solve the problem: n+n = n*n. Frankie quickly answered n = 2 or n = 0. Then Andy asked about n + m = n * m. We all started thinking about it, wondering if there was a solution to this one. After a couple minutes, Andy started to say that he needed a pencil to solve this one and Frankie chirped up, &ldquo;n = 3 and m = 1 1/2&rdquo;.</p><p>A couple days ago we were watching Polar Express and a character mentioned the number 150.4. A few minutes later, Frankie said 150.4 divided by 4 equals 37.6. He did this all in his head. He has a clear understanding of fractions, decimal places, percentages, and algebraic notation.</p><p>This got me thinking about the math program at his elementarty school. Reading and spelling are broken into levels but math is the same for all.&nbsp; The arithmetic that I've seen him doing so far in second grade is still addition and subtraction of 1 and 2 digit numbers.</p><p /> 10 application/xml false division fractions Frankie math multiplication second grade Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 carols 68.40.167.222 false true false false true 173251 false false true false false false true 101842 blog blogsite/Seidl/web