{"id":15091,"date":"2013-06-02T10:25:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T14:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=15091"},"modified":"2013-06-02T10:26:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T14:26:05","slug":"i-learnt-too__rose-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=15091","title":{"rendered":"I learnt too__Rose Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2013 Jun 02\u00a0 (Sun)<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">I learnt too<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I have long forgotten how I learned to do my subtraction.<!--more-->\u00a0 I only remember that in Primary 1, we had to memorize by hard the Times Table to prepare us for multiplication.\u00a0 Perhaps, it was by constant practice and drill that we learned our subtraction.<\/p>\n<p>I was at a loss why the teacher (in that government school) kept asking her Grade-2 student to count from x to y when she was correcting their arithmetic.\u00a0 The child has to hit his\/her own chest on the first number before she\/he starts counting.\u00a0 Soon\u2026I know.\u00a0 It was subtraction\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>8 minus 2 is 6.\u00a0 The teacher would ask the student to count from 2 to 8, with the child hitting his\/her chest on 2 and counting his\/her fingers starting from 3.\u00a0 The result? \u00a0\u00a06 fingers were up!\u00a0\u00a0 Voila!\u00a0 C\u2019est la r\u00e9ponse.<\/p>\n<p>Never thought of teaching a child subtraction in this way.<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026.volunteering is a good thing.\u00a0 I learnt something too.<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2013 Jun 02\u00a0 (Sun) I learnt too I have long forgotten how I learned to do my subtraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-15091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-rose-ho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15093,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091\/revisions\/15093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}