Alan & Brenda Leonard

12/16/02 15:45:

> Ethan does not know his times tables, but he can change the oil in
> a car and he always tells me what to do and where things are when I have car
> trouble.

In the past several weeks, I have found the times tables virtually useless,
but could use your son quite a bit. My car isn't behaving itself, so my
main math use lately has been addition, as in, adding up repair and
replacement costs for all the things currently wrong. Ugh.

brenda
who still wants to know why trig was required in school but basic auto
maintenance wasn't.