Extra Lessons In Tempting Essentials

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Wow!!

But.. why???
Obviously pasta is his new 'special interest'. I'm sorry that he's worse (or better) than me.

I have no idea. It just grabbed him, as things do I think it might be to do with memory and numbers. He has had a bit of a 'party trick' for want of a better phrase, for ages. He asks people their birth dates and within a minute can tell them which day of the week they were born on. And he's never wrong. :eek:.....he does it with people of all ages. I think he has worked out some way of calculating it, but I don't understand it at all.....thoughts

David.

fairclaire wrote: »

I have no idea. It just grabbed him, as things do I think it might be to do with memory and numbers. He has had a bit of a 'party trick' for want of a better phrase, for ages. He asks people their birth dates and within a minute can tell them which day of the week they were born on. And he's never wrong. :eek:.....he does it with people of all ages. I think he has worked out some way of calculating it, but I don't understand it at all.....thoughts

http://www.mathsisfun.com/games/dayofweek.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeller's_congruence :eek:

lookinforabargain

fairclaire wrote: »

I have no idea. It just grabbed him, as things do I think it might be to do with memory and numbers. He has had a bit of a 'party trick' for want of a better phrase, for ages. He asks people their birth dates and within a minute can tell them which day of the week they were born on. And he's never wrong. :eek:.....he does it with people of all ages. I think he has worked out some way of calculating it, but I don't understand it at all.....thoughts

That's some talent he's got! :cool:

aau1

fairclaire wrote: »

I have no idea. It just grabbed him, as things do I think it might be to do with memory and numbers. He has had a bit of a 'party trick' for want of a better phrase, for ages. He asks people their birth dates and within a minute can tell them which day of the week they were born on. And he's never wrong. :eek:.....he does it with people of all ages. I think he has worked out some way of calculating it, but I don't understand it at all.....thoughts

http://lifehacker.com/5848651/how-to-quickly-figure-out-the-day-of-the-week-any-date-falls-on

fairclaire

David. wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeller's_congruence :eek:

:eek::eek:...It freaks me out. This is a kid that struggles to write his own name:( but there's other things going on that are way beyond my understanding!

He can do these things but he can't put his shoes on the right feet. He is classed as having profound learning difficulties :huh:

David.

fairclaire wrote: »

:eek::eek:...It freaks me out. This is a kid that struggles to write his own name:( but there's other things going on that are way beyond my understanding!

He can do these things but he can't put his shoes on the right feet. He is classed as having profound learning difficulties :huh:

He will find his niche fc and be able to pay someone to put his shoes on if need be

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

I have no idea. It just grabbed him, as things do I think it might be to do with memory and numbers. He has had a bit of a 'party trick' for want of a better phrase, for ages. He asks people their birth dates and within a minute can tell them which day of the week they were born on. And he's never wrong. :eek:.....he does it with people of all ages. I think he has worked out some way of calculating it, but I don't understand it at all.....thoughts

That's easy enough to do. I've had 'party tricks' like that for ages. And I used to know exactly the calculation way of finding the day of the week of a date thing. It was something like remember the 'magic number' for the year (which would equate to the 28 possible calendars). Day of the week times 1.25 (something like that) divided by 7... I can't remember the precise formula now as haven't been into it for many years. I could re-find and do it very normally. Some people like this seem to remember the entire calendars from hundreds of years and immediately recall the answer. Others take a few seconds more as they are calculating it using the formula. I normally got out a calculator, but knew the formula! Not sure whether that formula works into the twenty-first century, it did work in the 20th, and that could be helpful with historical dates of older people such as dates of their birth.

fairclaire

David. wrote: »

He will find his niche fc and be able to pay someone to put his shoes on if need be

I know. It's just hard to get your head around.......I asked him today why the dodgy Italian accent? He just said ' because pasta is Italian, didnt you know that' :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

:eek::eek:...It freaks me out. This is a kid that struggles to write his own name:( but there's other things going on that are way beyond my understanding!

He can do these things but he can't put his shoes on the right feet. He is classed as having profound learning difficulties :huh:

Didn't Einstein have difficulty tying his shoelaces or something? If you are that clever, something else has to give. I know your son, unfortunately, is worse than me because he has learning difficulties. Learning difficulties or learning disabilities? I never saw it before, but I would, nowadays, class myself as having certain problems learning - i.e. learning difficulties - but not learning disability (my intellect very much intact and working far better than many people's). I suppose I learn in a different way - rote memory - without necessarily a deeper understanding each time. It didn't matter my style of learning - in fact I was rewarded for it more - when I was at school. However, school and what school is now looking for has vastly changed since I was there a very long time ago. My Asperger's never got picked up in school (or college, or university). I went all through mainstream school, got bullied, was never good at P.E., though I enjoyed doing it, and into normal life without it being picked up. Only more recently was it even classified in the UK. I think when I had it in school (and still have it, of course) my geography teacher simply thought I had a "mind full of useless information". That was a compliment from him, as that "useless" information - and he saw this - gave me a great deal of success in a lot of the school curriculum. He, and no-one else, even myself, ever twigged I had Asperger syndrome - well, no-one would in the late 1980s!

(Of course, I had a brief thought, at some point in that decade, that I might have Asperger syndrome/be autistic but ruled it out because I didn't fly through every exam and had to put a lot of work in to get even the results I got (which were very good), therefore thought I wasn't. I also didn't want, at that time, to be seen as having a disability - and 1980s it wasn't anything as kind to disabled people as today - I feared not going to a normal school, so kept any brief thought hidden and never twigged regarding it later - till I got diagnosed formally decades later. My own thought I had Asperger's, while in the 1980s, was of course highly advanced and far beyond what anyone else around me in school, teachers or pupils, would ever have been able to think. I think I got that brief thought from reading a (normal) dictionary, but no, I can't possibly be, and I feared being classed as "disabled" so I never mentioned a single word to anyone. Besides the fact I had absolutely no confidence through much of my younger years, not now, where I'm really assertive at times!)

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

That's easy enough to do. I've had 'party tricks' like that for ages. And I used to know exactly the calculation way of finding the day of the week of a date thing. It was something like remember the 'magic number' for the year (which would equate to the 28 possible calendars). Day of the week times 1.25 (something like that) divided by 7... I can't remember the precise formula now as haven't been into it for many years. I could re-find and do it very normally. Some people like this seem to remember the entire calendars from hundreds of years and immediately recall the answer. Others take a few seconds more as they are calculating it using the formula. I normally got out a calculator, but knew the formula! Not sure whether that formula works into the twenty-first century, it did work in the 20th, and that could be helpful with historical dates of older people such as dates of their birth.

I understand that and appreciate it....but to explain, he was deemed not high enough scoring in maths to need to do the recent SATS tests for maths. He had a high enough score to do one maths test but not the other one and his maths score is lower than any of his other national curriculum scores......it just confuses me