Because some of you were asking yesterday - here's the Nine Times Table Fingers Trick, I cannot find the originator of this YouTube, but it is explained very well here.
Lots of crafting going on this week - repairs and jeans hems for friends, and my final 2x2 patch has gone off to K in the post. Once hers arrives, I will start stitching them together, and making up my sewing pouch. Pictures soon...
Hugh Laurie is Prime Minister, then there are other great actors, Rebecca Front, Richard Griffith, John Bird, Kenneth Cranham, Geoffrey Whitehead.
Many of these brilliant people are no longer with us, but Front, Fry and Laurie continue to entertain on stage, screen and radio. Bob and I enjoys Hugh Laurie's jazz too [ HL can not only act, but also sing and play the piano!]
I was doing my volunteer visiting at the hospital last week, and talking to a patient who said she was grateful to have a radio with her [no TVs on the ward] but found it hard to find programmes she liked. She was thrilled when I told her what she could listen to on Radio 4 Extra - Paul Temple, Tony Hancock, Dad's Army, Sherlock Holmes...
And after all, sometimes on radio, the pictures are better!
I was doing my volunteer visiting at the hospital last week, and talking to a patient who said she was grateful to have a radio with her [no TVs on the ward] but found it hard to find programmes she liked. She was thrilled when I told her what she could listen to on Radio 4 Extra - Paul Temple, Tony Hancock, Dad's Army, Sherlock Holmes...
And after all, sometimes on radio, the pictures are better!
Thank you for the 'in the chair' recommendation. BBCsounds is such a great resource.
ReplyDeleteI'm watching for the postman every day; I posted my 2by2 on Monday so it should be with you soon...
I will be watching for the postie too!!
DeleteI remember my brother teaching my daughter that. Her degree is Maths and Psychology, so it didn’t hold her back. She uses every skill and trick to get some ability in numbers into her pupils. Numberblocks on BBC is an excellent start.
ReplyDeleteNumber blocks are brilliant, my younger grandchildren love them 🔢🧮
DeleteThat is so great and what the teacher taught me. I really could see the "magic" in 9 times table and the number 9. I still prefer words to numbers though, I think it was being told I was useless at maths by a teacher when I was quite young. (Not the lovely one who taught me the fingers truck.) Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteI have lost count of the people who say"when I was a child, I was told I was no good at maths"It makes me so sad
DeleteLoved Hugh Laurie in House! There are lots of good podcasts available to listen to at the moment.
ReplyDeleteThere's lots of good stuff out there, in among the dross 😉
DeleteI was told by a very arrogant young Maths teacher that I was no good at Maths and he hated having our group! Needless to say as a 13 year old, I believed him. I am good at teaching primary level maths because I empathise with children who are having difficulty. Language and words will always be my first love and I am always grateful for the gift of reading that my Gran passed on to me when I was four years old. Catriona
ReplyDeleteA lovely story, I wonder if the teacher got any better....
DeleteI also was told I was useless at maths, but was still in the top class due to English and History. Then I married an Accountant! I love BBC4 Extra, have been enjoying Paul Temple and we even found an old PT film on Talking Pictures which was very of its time, but enjoyable. Xx
ReplyDeleteBy Timothy! That's super!!
DeleteThat finger trick is amazing. Wish I had known that 60 years ago.
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DeleteI love the radio and only ever listened to Radio 4 when I was a young mum!
ReplyDeleteBob used to say that whenever he went out in the car, he found the radio had always been retuned to radio4
DeleteWe had to memorize the tables up to 12 when I was a child at school and we could not use our fingers to count. I always had trouble remembering the 7 times and 8 times tables. :)
ReplyDeleteThey say the 7 times is the hardest 7️⃣
DeleteReciting the tables as a child drilled them into my brain, no fingers needed! It's a neat trick, though.
ReplyDeleteBy the time I was 8, I'd learned all my tables up to 12, plus 14 and 16 (for lbs and oz) We had to recite them every day.
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