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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Tom Carty</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:cartyweb@hotmail.com">cartyweb@hotmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Numeralia" 2009.01.06 (08) [E]</span><br>
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My brother always had the same problem... he never lined the numbers up
correctly, always left aligning them instead of right aligning, so 100+20+1023
he vrote vertically as<br>
<br>
100<br>
20<br>
1023<br>
<br>
giving a sum of 4023 instead of 1043, which we put down maybe to a touch of
dyslexia, but now that you mention language, maybe that was it, though English
is pretty straightforward.<br>
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I personally blame the system of teaching horizontal before vertical, he found
the change difficult...<br>
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Tom<br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Numeralia" 2009.01.06 (08) [E]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">from heather Rendall <a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">re the whole of Marlou's
reply</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Brilliant! What a lovely
reply because it takes what I described and then moves one step on!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I do agree that numbers are
greatly affected by how we learn them. In my 20s I had a shop and discovered
that my mind went a total blank whenever I had to add anything with a unit 7 to
anything with a unit 8 i.e. 7 + 18 or 58+ 17 or 37 +8
and I couldn't work out for a long time why. Then one Christmas I found myself
playing Cribbage with my mother, where cards have to add up to 15 so 7s and 8s
are important / useful cards to have. I found my mind blanking out in exactly
the same way at the end of each round as my mother added up my totals for me.
Despite the fact that I had been conscious enough of the addition to make sure
I kept the right cards, I appear to have given up in the face of my mother's
quicker arithmetic! And so never got round to actually adding 7 + 8 = 15. Or
was it that I has never been allowed to say it!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">We used to play a lot of
family games using dice and I do see combinations of numbers as on the faces of
dice </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">o
o o</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">o
+
o
= 8</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">o
o
o</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">In the New Scientist
last week (Jan 3rd) was a v interesting article by Daniel Tammet the
autistic savant who not only excels at numbers but languages as well. For him
numbers have 'texture'!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Heather<br style="">
</span></p>