My seventh grade math class was focused on "the NEW math"--the binary system! How much time have we spent using the binary system since then? Only computer folks, as far as I know. Binary, instead of more time on multiplying and dividing fractions, working with decimals....basic stuff. Also--re your English "new grammar"--as a Latin teac…
My seventh grade math class was focused on "the NEW math"--the binary system! How much time have we spent using the binary system since then? Only computer folks, as far as I know. Binary, instead of more time on multiplying and dividing fractions, working with decimals....basic stuff. Also--re your English "new grammar"--as a Latin teacher having to teach my 8th graders basic English grammar, just in order to be able to teach them basic Latin grammar (cuz we wasn't using Hans Oerberg Lingua Latina!) I came to realize the real meaning of our terms: noun (nomen--a name) adjective (ad + iectus--lying near--as an adjective does tend to show up near a noun) adverb (ad + verbum--near the verb-word) preposition (prae + positio --place before--as our preps go before the noun, not after) conjunction (con + iunctio--joining together) and so on.
Massachusetts. 1961-62 for the 7th grade with “New Math”. Ironic ( or maybe not) to learn, some 10 years later, when beginning Homeric Greek, that “math” is from “mathein”—to learn.
My seventh grade math class was focused on "the NEW math"--the binary system! How much time have we spent using the binary system since then? Only computer folks, as far as I know. Binary, instead of more time on multiplying and dividing fractions, working with decimals....basic stuff. Also--re your English "new grammar"--as a Latin teacher having to teach my 8th graders basic English grammar, just in order to be able to teach them basic Latin grammar (cuz we wasn't using Hans Oerberg Lingua Latina!) I came to realize the real meaning of our terms: noun (nomen--a name) adjective (ad + iectus--lying near--as an adjective does tend to show up near a noun) adverb (ad + verbum--near the verb-word) preposition (prae + positio --place before--as our preps go before the noun, not after) conjunction (con + iunctio--joining together) and so on.
I’m pretty sure we were doing new math too. I remember my dad tried to help me with a worksheet and it was all wrong lol
Were you in a blue state too?
Massachusetts. 1961-62 for the 7th grade with “New Math”. Ironic ( or maybe not) to learn, some 10 years later, when beginning Homeric Greek, that “math” is from “mathein”—to learn.