Was listening to “Car Talk” on NPR radio over the weekend and in their as it were question of the week challenge from the previous week “fuzzy math” came up.
One of the hosts had been in a diner over the week and overhead a mother going over math with her son. Something like 15 + 7 = 21, 43 - 15 = 28 than it got into some fuzzy sounding math: 43 + 21 = 28 and or 33 - 17 = 50. (Or something like that...)
Anyway, I was thinking about the “fuzzy rough math” my department does or gets quizzed about at times which confuses people not on the “in” constantly.
16 + 16 = 13;
18 + 18 + 18 = 12
or
10 + 14 = 9
Anyone know what it means?
(Realizing I have already presented it as a concept in the past before but possibly useful to bring up again.)
One of the hosts had been in a diner over the week and overhead a mother going over math with her son. Something like 15 + 7 = 21, 43 - 15 = 28 than it got into some fuzzy sounding math: 43 + 21 = 28 and or 33 - 17 = 50. (Or something like that...)
Anyway, I was thinking about the “fuzzy rough math” my department does or gets quizzed about at times which confuses people not on the “in” constantly.
16 + 16 = 13;
18 + 18 + 18 = 12
or
10 + 14 = 9
Anyone know what it means?
(Realizing I have already presented it as a concept in the past before but possibly useful to bring up again.)