Dear Liz,
I was once asked why I could sight read a piece of music but
couldn't remember it to play from memory and I said I didn't
know. However my music teacher said that it was probably because I
matched the pattern of the notes on the stave to a memory of how my
hands felt when I played.
It was my brother the mathematician who pointed out that math is one thing,
calculation another. So those who consider themselves mathematically
challenged may only suffer from problems with numbers, and in my case I am
convinced that this started for me in first or second grade with poor
As usual, I am behind, but I want to show you my point of view. I think I am
partly mathematical/scientific and partly artistic. I liked math. in school but
I liked music (which has lots of mathematical elements) and art and handicrafts
as well. It was a big problem to decide which what I
Tess wrote:
As for boys and lacemaking, my experience is that they take
to it more readily than do girls, at first anyway. There are
lots of reasons for that, but among them might be their
immediately logical way of thinking and their ability to
focus more single-mindedly.
While I was
observation
is interesting, but that's a really small sample size from which to draw any
conclusions.
Nancy
Connecticut, USA
From: Margery Allcock margerybu...@o2.co.uk
To: 'Lace Arachne'
lace@arachne.com
Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 10:01 AM
Subject: RE: [lace]
Math vs
I was once asked why I could sight read a piece of music but couldn't remember
it to play from memory and I said I didn't know. However my music teacher said
that it was probably because I matched the pattern of the notes on the stave to
a memory of how my hands felt when I played. Whereas a
Dear Ilske, et al,
All children are different, yet boys are often more like other boys than they
are like girls. If we recognize that each child is an individual, it helps.
But generalities can also help. The skills we can say lacemaking helps with
are often those encouraged more in boys
