Board 8 > My 6 year old is doing algebra right now.

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IfGodCouldDie
10/19/19 11:46:42 PM
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It's super simple like 2 + X - 8 = 17 but he is still getting it done quite quickly in his head.
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LOLIAmAnAlt
10/19/19 11:48:28 PM
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Can do the
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Panthera
10/19/19 11:52:10 PM
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Wow I had no idea before this exact topic that you even had a kid
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IfGodCouldDie
10/19/19 11:53:28 PM
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Panthera posted...
Wow I had no idea before this exact topic that you even had a kid

I have 2.
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Dark Young Link
10/20/19 12:01:43 AM
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Algebra already? Wow
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IfGodCouldDie
10/20/19 12:06:03 AM
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How the fuck did I double post a topic lol
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KommunistKoala
10/20/19 12:06:43 AM
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I still couldn't answer that
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10/20/19 12:12:40 AM
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IfGodCouldDie posted...
How the fuck did I double post a topic lol

IfGodCouldDie posted...
I have 2.

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pjbasis
10/20/19 12:17:54 AM
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IfGodCouldDie
10/20/19 12:25:36 AM
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Lol oh you guys.
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The_Yes_Man
10/20/19 12:27:06 AM
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IfGodCouldDie posted...
Panthera posted...
Wow I had no idea before this exact topic that you even had a kid

I have 2.

topics or kids
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MartinFF7
10/20/19 12:40:07 AM
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That is crazy for 6 years old

but as a mathie I love it, very nice!
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WhiteLens
10/20/19 1:11:16 AM
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Did he do the whole 17 - 2 + 8, or did he just figure out that X is 23?

(Or does he know X-23, the character, and that's the first number that popped up in his head?)

In any case, that's very impressive for a 6 year old.
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swirIdude
10/20/19 1:22:13 AM
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WhiteLens posted...
(Or does he know X-23, the character, and that's the first number that popped up in his head?)


The kid is second best at what he does.
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IfGodCouldDie
10/20/19 2:20:13 AM
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WhiteLens posted...
Did he do the whole 17 - 2 + 8, or did he just figure out that X is 23?

(Or does he know X-23, the character, and that's the first number that popped up in his head?)

In any case, that's very impressive for a 6 year old.

He worked out the problem. I would have been pretty shocked if he was able to just look at the problem and figure it out in his head like that. Lol
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IfGodCouldDie
10/20/19 2:21:23 AM
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The_Yes_Man posted...
IfGodCouldDie posted...
Panthera posted...
Wow I had no idea before this exact topic that you even had a kid

I have 2.

topics or kids

Both lol
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IfGodCouldDie
10/20/19 2:22:02 AM
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UltimaterializerX posted...
IfGodCouldDie posted...
I have 2.
Yeah, I see two of the exact same topic.

Yea I dont know what happened, they were double posted. I closed the other one now.
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ChaosTonyV4
10/20/19 2:22:25 AM
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You should have left it open
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IfGodCouldDie
10/20/19 2:24:17 AM
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...
You should have left it open

I suppose it was kind of special because how often is there a double posted topic, especially when this site doesn't let you double post to begin with lol
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htaeD
10/20/19 2:44:05 AM
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X. My elusive enemy.

Good to see he likes math tho
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IfGodCouldDie
10/20/19 4:18:51 AM
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I'm not even sure if he likes it, he just seems really good at it, the fact that he was able to figure a lot of the equations we were throwing at him fairly easily definitely boosted his confidence though. Originally my wife was just doing simple additions and subtractions with him on the fridge using magnets. Then I came in with a question that involved both additon and subtraction. He was flabbergasted, saying shit like that doesn't work dad, you can't do that. It was humourous. As I was trying to convince him that I could show him how to do it, he said that he's going to tell mom on me, I said you go ask her if that is an equation that works. So he does she comes over and says yes that is a doable equation. So I work him through it and he nails it. Then I upped the ante after doing a few of those with introducing algebra the one I posted in this topic being the first question I gave him.
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IfGodCouldDie
10/20/19 4:19:45 AM
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I think my favorite it one he solved was 389 + X - 0 = 389. Once he figured out the answer he was howling laughing about it.
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MZero11
10/20/19 7:26:31 AM
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Do the quadratic formula next

I don't even remember how do that that anymore

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IfGodCouldDie
10/20/19 9:53:27 AM
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We ended up going over bedmas with him, but the fridge tiles dont really allow for anything more complex than multiplication and division.
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metroid composite
10/20/19 10:16:01 AM
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I definitely remember doing stuff like that around age 6.

In fairness it's kind of a different approach to the problem; when you're six you don't rearrange the equation, you tend to just plug numbers into x until you find one that works.
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IfGodCouldDie
10/20/19 10:45:24 AM
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metroid composite posted...
I definitely remember doing stuff like that around age 6.

In fairness it's kind of a different approach to the problem; when you're six you don't rearrange the equation, you tend to just plug numbers into x until you find one that works.

He was actually figuring it out though. Which is what was so surprising to us. It's not like he was just taking guesses until it worked.
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metroid composite
10/20/19 11:19:06 AM
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IfGodCouldDie posted...
metroid composite posted...
I definitely remember doing stuff like that around age 6.

In fairness it's kind of a different approach to the problem; when you're six you don't rearrange the equation, you tend to just plug numbers into x until you find one that works.

He was actually figuring it out though. Which is what was so surprising to us. It's not like he was just taking guesses until it worked.

Well, yeah, the guesses are kind-of internal/intuitive, not said out loud.

You do stuff like try out a number, realize it needs to be higer by about 20, try an x that's 20 higher, it works, say that number out loud.

Or you just mentally get used to an addition on the same side of the equation as x is like a subtraction so your mind processes it like that and you come up with a number, try it out to be sure, and say that number.

When I actually got to algebra in school, I would drive my teachers mad at first because I never showed any steps, just wrote down the answer that came to me. (This eventually stops working around grade 11 or so).
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ChaosTonyV4
10/20/19 11:45:30 AM
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IfGodCouldDie posted...
We ended up going over bedmas with him, but the fridge tiles dont really allow for anything more complex than multiplication and division.


Pemdas?
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Bossman_Coolguy
10/20/19 11:49:05 AM
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metroid composite posted...
I definitely remember doing stuff like that around age 6.

In fairness it's kind of a different approach to the problem; when you're six you don't rearrange the equation, you tend to just plug numbers into x until you find one that works.

wow trying to steal a kid's thunder, real nice "humble brag" as they call them now smh bet you're proud you have a better vocabulary than a toddler too
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IfGodCouldDie
10/20/19 11:58:06 AM
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...
IfGodCouldDie posted...
We ended up going over bedmas with him, but the fridge tiles dont really allow for anything more complex than multiplication and division.


Pemdas?

We call them brackets round my parts
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NFUN
10/20/19 12:04:29 PM
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IfGodCouldDie posted...
We ended up going over bedmas with him

ruined
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IfGodCouldDie
10/20/19 12:13:26 PM
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NFUN posted...
IfGodCouldDie posted...
We ended up going over bedmas with him

ruined

I had to because my wife fucked up - 8 + 3 = 44. She ended up getting him to 55 when that was wrong.
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azuarc
10/20/19 12:36:30 PM
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IfGodCouldDie posted...
We ended up going over bedmas with him

Is that some weird version of Christmas? Or just a way of saying to went past his bedtime?

IfGodCouldDie posted...
We call them brackets round my parts

Oh. Brackets are the second tier. And then the curly ones are called braces.

Very cool for your son, though. I have tenth graders who can't solve the questions he's answering.
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