I like Captain Chaos math!
I do! I like it, in the bath!
And I would add fractions in a boat.
And I would calculate Pi with a goat...
And I will round my numbers in the rain.
And on the couch. And on a train.
I will add that tax, with a cake on my head,
And flat on my back, with a fish in my bed!
So I will figure perimeters with a boat in my lap.
And measure the miles twixt two towns on a map.
And I will add exponents in a house.
And find common denominators with a mouse.
And I can calculate here and there.
Say! I can calculate ANYWHERE!
I do so like like Captain Chaos math!
Thank you! Thank you, Mr. McGrath!
This is what happened this morning when we sat on the couch and started today’s Saxon math lesson. The girl decided to bring out her Cat in the Hat I Can Do That Game
and see how well her brother could learn scientific notation while she systematically placed a cake, a goldfish in a bowl, a plastic boat, and a bunch of flowers on General Mayhem. This exercise had the benefit of forcing the General to use mental math while I recorded what he told me to write, with the added benefit of making a rather dull topic fairly amusing. My boy was remarkably accurate while balancing a foam cake on his noggin’. I’m thinking of trying him out with a Baked Alaska tomorrow.
