If you are about to send your youngster or youngsters off to Kindergarten in the Fall you can be a great deal of help before they go. In Math they will be asked to know their numbers to 100, write them, and count from ten back to 0. Many have their reasons why it is difficult, but to me it is all about patterns. You constantly are building patterns into your children by eating at certain times, having a bed time, getting toilet trained, and knowing how to get dressed just to name a few. Math is a pattern of numbers using 10 digits starting with 0.
0 10 20 90
1 These are all the digits so what 11 Next ? 21 We continue this 91
2 is next? Our digits again with 12 22 pattern until 92
3 a 1 in front. 13 23 93
4 14 24 94
5 15 25 95
6 16 26 96
7 17 27 97
8 18 28 98
9 19 29 99
When we get to 99 we must add another place and we get 100.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
What really happened
I do not like to step away from Math, but in this article I feel I must. In late 2008 we as a country fell into a terrible recession. The worst since our depression of 1929. Because our banks had been doing what they wanted for 8 years without anybody looking out for our well being, the loans that they had poorly made came crashing back on them. At the same time we got a new President, the first black president of our history. Color means nothing to me, this man is a Harvard graduate, and Illinois Senator. But as Bush walked away, our economy fell apart. It was placed on President Obama's shoulders to turn this country around.
Eight million people had lost their jobs in the 3 months that he waited to raise his hand no January 20th of 2009 and begin to right our sinking ship. As he took this oath to do the right thing, the head of the Republican Party had gathered his leaders together to state, "we must do everything we can to make this man a one term president". They could care less about the American people, and the recession we had fallen into. They would spend the next 3½ writing bills on abortion that did nothing to solve the problems of our country. We had so many problems, but these mean spirited yahoos only wanted to get the ball back. They would do nothing to help the President get our economy going.
Also, in 2009 we suddenly saw the rise of the "Tea Party". Their push was that the government would be spending to much money, and raising taxes. We were told that this was a grass roots party that was about taxes on middle Americans. But if Obama has decreased the middle class taxes several times during his tenure to help small business and the middle class, what was their true agenda.
I believe that these people are the racists of our country and they could not speak out so they hid behind a bogus political party that was funded by millionaires, and billionaires. At the same time Republican Governors began writing bills to make it difficult for seniors, college students, and minorities to vote. They kept telling us that it was all about "voter fraud". However, we know that this is a big lie. If a war veteran has been voting since he returned from Europe during World War II, and has been voting every 4 years for the person he wants to be President, how does he suddenly become ineligible to vote. I would ask these bigots to prove this man can not vote. When we remove the rights of a few citizens, no matter the reason, we begin the removal of those rights for all.
As we approach this 2012 election for President, my question is, will it be one that is bought by a few?,
or taken because many were denied their right to vote?, or lost to a bunch of lies played out over the television? My Grandmother once told me that this country would have a war between the races. I believe that she was almost right, however the war might be between the racists and the non-racists. To those
who have forgotten their history the first three words of the Constitution are WE THE PEOPLE. If it does not work for everyone then it works for no one.
Eight million people had lost their jobs in the 3 months that he waited to raise his hand no January 20th of 2009 and begin to right our sinking ship. As he took this oath to do the right thing, the head of the Republican Party had gathered his leaders together to state, "we must do everything we can to make this man a one term president". They could care less about the American people, and the recession we had fallen into. They would spend the next 3½ writing bills on abortion that did nothing to solve the problems of our country. We had so many problems, but these mean spirited yahoos only wanted to get the ball back. They would do nothing to help the President get our economy going.
Also, in 2009 we suddenly saw the rise of the "Tea Party". Their push was that the government would be spending to much money, and raising taxes. We were told that this was a grass roots party that was about taxes on middle Americans. But if Obama has decreased the middle class taxes several times during his tenure to help small business and the middle class, what was their true agenda.
I believe that these people are the racists of our country and they could not speak out so they hid behind a bogus political party that was funded by millionaires, and billionaires. At the same time Republican Governors began writing bills to make it difficult for seniors, college students, and minorities to vote. They kept telling us that it was all about "voter fraud". However, we know that this is a big lie. If a war veteran has been voting since he returned from Europe during World War II, and has been voting every 4 years for the person he wants to be President, how does he suddenly become ineligible to vote. I would ask these bigots to prove this man can not vote. When we remove the rights of a few citizens, no matter the reason, we begin the removal of those rights for all.
As we approach this 2012 election for President, my question is, will it be one that is bought by a few?,
or taken because many were denied their right to vote?, or lost to a bunch of lies played out over the television? My Grandmother once told me that this country would have a war between the races. I believe that she was almost right, however the war might be between the racists and the non-racists. To those
who have forgotten their history the first three words of the Constitution are WE THE PEOPLE. If it does not work for everyone then it works for no one.
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