Little House math
Apr. 7th, 2003 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI was rereading some Laura Ingalls Wilder books over Shabbat, and kept noticing math problems left and right, especially in West from Home and her travel diary about moving to the "Land of the Big Red Apple."
I started wondering where I could put these math questions. I suppose I'd have to get permission if I wanted to quote excerpts from the books, too.
I've had this happen before, reading books and having word problems want to be written (I suppose other people manage to read books without word problems leaping out at them?). I remember it happening very clearly when learning Eruvin (the mishna, not the gemara), thinking how I could turn it into a couple of chapters on plane geometry, then thinking I could have some 3-D geometry (volumes and surface areas, anyway) using the design of ritual objects. And I did do that whole Purim math quiz, too.
I never did write up any questions (other than the Purim quiz), but I wonder just how long it would take me to type in word problems when I see them, even if just for my own entertainment (don't even start, I know that's warped)? I suppose somewhere there might be teachers who would use them to link literature and math, or halacha and math, etc.
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I started wondering where I could put these math questions. I suppose I'd have to get permission if I wanted to quote excerpts from the books, too.
I've had this happen before, reading books and having word problems want to be written (I suppose other people manage to read books without word problems leaping out at them?). I remember it happening very clearly when learning Eruvin (the mishna, not the gemara), thinking how I could turn it into a couple of chapters on plane geometry, then thinking I could have some 3-D geometry (volumes and surface areas, anyway) using the design of ritual objects. And I did do that whole Purim math quiz, too.
I never did write up any questions (other than the Purim quiz), but I wonder just how long it would take me to type in word problems when I see them, even if just for my own entertainment (don't even start, I know that's warped)? I suppose somewhere there might be teachers who would use them to link literature and math, or halacha and math, etc.
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