Renegade parents teach old math on the sly
MSNBCPosted: July 17th, 2008 by R. Lee Wrights
“On an occasional evening at the kitchen table in Brooklyn, N.Y., Victoria Morey has been known to sit down with her 9-year-old son and do something she’s not supposed to. ‘I am a rebel,’ confesses this mother of two. And just what is this subversive act in which Morey engages — with a child, yet? Long division. Yes, Morey teaches her son, who’ll enter fifth grade in the fall, how to divide the old-fashioned way — you know, with descending columns of numbers, subtracting all the way down.” (07/15/08)
