{"id":313,"date":"2021-10-28T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2021-10-28T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T12:52:19","slug":"math-progress-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/28\/math-progress-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Progress #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Right now I am working on the Arithmetic course through Khan Academy. I am more than halfway complete with the units, currently on multiply and divide decimals. A lot of this is just a refresher, and I actually remember a good amount, so I am breezing through for the most part. Trying to spend most of my time doing problems instead of watching the videos. Division was the one I could not remember how to do it by hand, but now it is coming back to me. Here are a few things I have learned from going on this journey so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Attention to detail<\/li><li>Read the question carefully<\/li><li>Show your work<\/li><li>Break your problem into small pieces<\/li><li>Double check your answer<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Math is great practice for paying close attention to detail, and slowing down. Also great for showing how systems work, breaking problems down into smaller steps. Most of the time I have spent is redoing quizzes that I got one wrong answer from rushing too fast! I should be able to move onto basic geometry in the next month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now I am working on the Arithmetic course through Khan Academy. I am more than halfway complete with the units, currently on multiply and divide decimals. A lot of this is just a refresher, and I actually remember a good amount, so I am breezing through for the most part. Trying to spend most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}