Whats 12.949 rounded to one decimal place

[Clarissaintheway]

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Obviously, I was quoting TTT with my first line there - I wasn't insanely tagging myself. Although I wonder if I'll get an email from MN to say DDD has tagged me.

Its to 3 decimal places tonight!

12.949768

Without starting from the right we need to look at the 7? which rounds the 9 up? Is that right? is it 12.950?

Top of the class, Clarissa.

Torn I discovered that the techniques had changed when I did stuff with my kids

I agree. I think some things are really good, e.g. number lines. There is also much more emphasis on understanding the methods rather than just learning by rote. (eg methods for division).

Without starting from the right

Schaden, has anyone ever shown you this?

Put your hands flat on the table in front of you. fingers spread. Your thumb and forefinger on your left hand makes an L (for left). Your right hand doesn't.

I always have to think about which hand I write with 😂 it's pathetic!

Put your hands flat on the table in front of you. fingers spread. Your thumb and forefinger on your left hand makes an L (for left). Your right hand doesn't.

What wizardry is this?!

Schadenfreude - now the next time you want to tell your left from right, all you've got to to do is remember whether it's palms face down or face up in steppe's method...

For DD2, we say 'which had do you write with, and which is left over'.
Which worked OK ish, until after one holiday she came home from school saying she had forgotten which had to hold a pen in!

(We spend quite a lot of time say, 'no the other left')

Ha ha. These threads show why there are such problems!

Dad dad dad I was thinking that! I also have a similar issue with 'never eat shredded wheat'
I don't actually need either of them but it irritates me that both require additional information to be remembered before they work as an aide memoire!

now the next time you want to tell your left from right, all you've got to to do is remember whether it's palms face down or face up in steppe's method.

DadDadDad - What? What?!?!?!?! OMIGOD!

Look you lot stop making it hard.
slam your hands down on the table - you don't do that with palms up do you!!

slam your hands down, only one says L.

I agree with Never Eat Shredded Wheat. It is STUPID I would instinctively go anticlockwise, and get it wrong. I teach kids that it spells WE across the middle.

Why would you go anti-clockwise? It's so, anti

Because if I draw a circle, I draw it anti-clockwise.
Just as if you write an O or and a or a g or a d etc ect you draw the round bit anti-clockwise.

I agree steppe. I always have to force myself to go clockwise for NESW. Though it does tie in with bearings where you go clockwise so that is consistent I guess.

I don't like bearings going clockwise though, because for rotations and geometry +90 is anti clockwise, so it is inconsistent. I guess that is real life v maths though.

What if u ou can't rember which was is clockwise! How come there's some stuff people can remember with no problems (clockwise) but others (left and right) they can't

Sorry, T^3, for a moment there I thought you suggested that maths and real life are different things. I must be seeing things.

Anyway, bearings do go anticlockwise if you view them from under the ground looking up to the surface.

Did anyone say 12.9, x=3 and 48 yet?

others (left and right) they can't

I just look where my watch is (left hand).

Drawing o's, a's, d's anti-clockwise!

But not p's, b's.

blimey.

What about the number 9? Clockwise or anti clockwise?