Charlene Notgrass
At that time (I kid you not), we were required to have only one math credit to graduate from high school. I graduated with honors having taken exactly that — one math credit. I was completely unprepared for college math. I concentrated on social sciences and took the minimum math requirements, which was again the equivalent of one year.
However, there is much more to the math they need to know than simply math curriculum. It means knowing how to use math in their everyday lives. One day one of our adult daughters shopped for fabric. She purchased two yards of fabric at $3.00 per yard. The substitute fabric cutter had to get help from a manager to figure the cost, and the manager used a calculator to figure the total — a calculator for two times three!
• If I purchase 2 yards of fabric (or chain or wire or rope) at $3 per yard, I will pay $6.
And while we are working on those things, we remember God’s teaching in Colossians 3:21 not to exasperate our children. We must also train our children in the many ethics lessons God teaches about mathematics. Here is just one verse among many:
Proverbs 11:1 NASB
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