Life with an Exciting Nine-Year-Old
Melfried Olson · The Arithmetic Teacher · 1982
I share the same concern as Moser (1982) who, in his article “Dear Kathy's Teacher,” indicated he was as concerned about the whys in mathematics as about the hows. My daughter does well in the mechanics of mathematics; she feels that is what must be important because that is what the teacher demands. After years of being accused of being crazy by this child who, through reluctant patience, has managed to put up with my attempts to encourage her to become “friendly with numbers” rather than to do just computation, I received an unexpected reward.