Extra Lessons In Tempting Essentials

zippydooda

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 think that it is more difficult when changing centuries is that leap years do not happen every four years.
im not sure on this mind as i am doing it from memory. a leap year as we know it occurs every 4 years.
but not on the 100th year, unless the 100th year is a 400th year (4x100)
now aint we come a long way since jacket potatoes;)

aau1

fairclaire wrote: »

you quoted my mis typing :cool:....and I was quick to correct :eek::eek::rotfl::rotfl:

Ai don't know what you are talking about

David.

aau1 wrote: »

Ai don't know what you are talking about

I thought fc was just talking/typing in your dialect

aau1

zippydooda wrote: »

i think that it is more difficult when changing centuries is that leap years do not happen every four years.
im not sure on this mind as i am doing it from memory. a leap year as we know it occurs every 4 years.
but not on the 100th year, unless the 100th year is a 1000th year (10x100)
now aint we come a long way since jacket potatoes;)

I thought it was every 400th that was the exception

Either way, the year 2000 was an exception and was classed a leap year and that's the only 100th year I'm ever gonna see with my diet of crisps, beer and chocolate

David.

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aau1

David. wrote: »

I thought fc was just talking/typing in your dialect

Too few profanities for that to be true :rotfl:

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

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

I know - and your DS, unfortunately, is more along the spectrum than I am.

(It must be the different types of learning that each of the maths tests has. Perhaps one of them is testing more abstract skills which, unfortunately, he doesn't really have.)

I just hope he gets the support he needs. It's such a difficult dilemma and I feel for anyone with learning disabilities. It must be hard.

That said, they've never known anything else. To them, it's normal. Maybe it's the people around them, who don't lack those things, that it affects more.

For example, I can't read body language (facial expressions that aren't really obvious). If someone is smiling, I know they're happy, and if someone sticks up a V-sign gesture, I know what they mean, but beyond that...

I never knew there were any body language signals constantly around me from everyone. I thought the way I saw things was normal, because I never expereienced how anyone else ever perceives the world. Now, knowing more explicitly that I am not picking up body language, and that I have Asperger's, I can now detect signatures that something must be there, which I am not receiving, although I cannot work out what that something, that I am missing, could be. Before I knew, there were no signatures there - it was simply how the world came across to me. Just people's words, movements, communication, no body language and no-one else ever gets any body language at all (or so I thought) - didn't realise you all had a communication receiver and a broadcaster that I don't have.

I could of course learn it all. But it would still be out-of-sync, not subconsciously perceived in advance of its transmission as it is with 'normal' people, to be honest, I'm not interested, it's just too hard for me to begin to learn, you can't teach an old dog etc., and I've got through life pretty well so far without needing to know. For all the effort it would take - and then exhausting me out in social situations from thenceforth - as opposed to just getting on with them and ignoring body language that I don't see - I think would be worse if I tried to learn it. No! It's only trying to make me conform to the rest of society - and to 'cure' me - which can't be done - I am not doing it and society can make allowance for me for once!:rotfl::) I've managed through life so far without major hitches. Keep on going as I'm going - I mustn't be doing anything too wrong to have got as far as I have so far!:)

fairclaire

zippydooda wrote: »

i think that it is more difficult when changing centuries is that leap years do not happen every four years.
im not sure on this mind as i am doing it from memory. a leap year as we know it occurs every 4 years.
but not on the 100th year, unless the 100th year is a 1000th year (10x100)
now aint we come a long way since jacket potatoes;)

:eek::eek: that sound like DS2 logic...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: he also brought leap years into the equation, but I can't remember what the thinking was now

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I know - and your DS, unfortunately, is more along the spectrum than I am.

(It must be the different types of learning that each of the maths tests has. Perhaps one of them is testing more abstract skills which, unfortunately, he doesn't really have.)

I just hope he gets the support he needs. It's such a difficult dilemma and I feel for anyone with learning disabilities. It must be hard.

That said, they've never known anything else. To them, it's normal. Maybe it's the people around them, who don't lack those things, that it affects more.

For example, I can't read body language (facial expressions that aren't really obvious). If someone is smiling, I know they're happy, and if someone sticks up a V-sign gesture, I know what they mean, but beyond that...

I never knew there were any body language signals constantly around me from everyone. I thought the way I saw things was normal, because I never expereienced how anyone else ever perceives the world. Now, knowing more explicitly that I am not picking up body language, and that I have Asperger's, I can now detect signatures that something must be there, which I am not receiving, although I cannot work out what that something, that I am missing, could be. Before I knew, there were no signatures there - it was simply how the world came across to me. Just people's words, movements, communication, no body language and no-one else ever gets any body language at all (or so I thought) - didn't realise you all had a communication receiver and a broadcaster that I don't have.

That makes sense. He had an obsession with statistics pretty recently. And had a great time telling my 90 year old neighbour in detail how he had defied the odds by still being alive :eek::eek: as he had exceeded the mortality rate for men in the UK :o:o I was mortified, luckily the neighbours are used to him.

He also doesn't get body language or accept emotions, even his own

zippydooda

aau1 wrote: »

I thought it was every 400th that was the exception

Either way, the year 2000 was an exception and was classed a leap year and that's the only 100th year I'm ever gonna see with my diet of crisps, beer and chocolate

yes, i just googled it. it was from memory a long time ago. well in the year 2000 actually as that was one that was the exception to the rule that was the exception to the rule.
ill go back and edit;)