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Speaker 1: How friendly local nerd Adam spent the morning.
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Speaker 2: Oh thank you very much. What a way to start the new year.
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Speaker 1: He always feels bad calling you a nerds.
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Speaker 2: Well, the way that a lot of people do feel when they confront the idea of a wind to kid with primary school mathematics, which is what my mission is for the next few months.
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Speaker 3: My friend, I can't believe this.
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Speaker 1: You've got a new book out. It's called Maths one oh one and it is to how it's really to help parents work with kids that are doing like primary school maths.
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Speaker 4: Right, I'll tell you.
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Speaker 2: Where the idea came from. This is an absolutely true story. A couple of years ago. I've got a textman of made of Minelli, who's a pretty smart guy, said Spence. My son Teddy Comma seven. Comma has just asked me, Dad, why isn't one a prime number? The text message finishes. I've locked myself in the bathroom. I can't stall him much longer. And that's when I realized there was a world of pain out there and people confront of this inde during the whole homeschooling thing. It's not hard to you get to fifth grade mathematics and unless you've done it for a while. How do you add fractions together? How to roam in numeral's work? What on earth is the heck? Tare that sort of stuff? So this book, Matt's one I want is the guide to walk hand in hand with your kid, not just be how to memorize it, but to understand the beautiful early stages of mathematics. Beautiful, Hey, Adam at Stina here, I don't know if you, I wouldn't put the word beautiful in front.
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Speaker 4: Of I picture.
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Speaker 1: Adam's bedroom is just like the walls. It's like fractions or something.
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Speaker 2: It's just a big chalkboard. It's just one big chalkboard, Adam. My wish I knew about this when Jackie was in primary school, because by about year four I think I was done. Yeah, And that's true, and especially for mums, you see, because young girls think their mums are the perfect person. The moment mum says to her daughter, Oh, Matt, so I was terrible, Go and ask your dad. You're sending a message to your kid. You can be awful at Matt's and still with the best person. Mums really have to hang in there, even if you're saying great question let's look at it after dinner, then your race off. Grab a copy of Matsmoto want off the shelf, quickly look it up, just because if you go on the journey with them, honestly, that sense of discovery when you go back and work out how do you add fractions together with your kids can actually be quite magical.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, look there were times, so you know, Jordan Jayson year twelve now, so nothing there. I don't even bother try.
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Speaker 3: I'm not even going to bother.
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Speaker 1: But Tiana she's eleven, she's going into high school this year. So last year with her schooling with the maths and stuff, thank
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goodness as well, she's pretty she's all right on that stuff. But every now and then, Adam, we'd sit down and we'd actually work something out together. And my god, I did better with her than I did through my whole schooling. I was learning things again.
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Speaker 2: And it feels good because there's a bit of parental pride on the line. And my book does two things. It goes through all the stuff actually on the curriculum, but also asked some of those deeper questions the kids will just sit you with. How big is in unity is point ninety ninety nine going on forever really equal to one, that sort of stuff. What I thought i'd do for you this morning, guys. I've loaded up three little stings of classic pop songs. I'm going to give you a quick free question primary school maths quiz. You guys are a team. You're not playing against each other. You're gonna work this out as a team. Like team, guys, take it away, sting number one.
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Speaker 3: Love sim.
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Speaker 1: Come on, this is my song battle song this morning.
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Speaker 4: Oh guys, this is just like school.
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Speaker 3: We're ten seconds in and I'm distracted.
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Speaker 2: There you go. Okay, So Frankie Valley singing about December sixty three, sixty three occurs somewhere on the times tables? What times? What is sixty three? I got this?
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Speaker 3: Do you got this?
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Speaker 4: Echo?
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Speaker 1: Well, where's nine times seven seven ninth nine sevens?
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Speaker 2: Just the slight nervousness in you whispered? You know I love it? But you're absolutely I mean right straight away, I went sixty three, but I went.
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Speaker 4: Is that? It was? That? Is that the test?
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Speaker 2: That's the first one. He's a He's a really cute little fact. You add up the digits of the number sixty three six plus three equals nine for any number. If you add up all the digits and you get something divisible by nine, the original number that you started with was divisible by nine. That's the divisibility test for nine. You can have that as a bonus, okay, plasting number two.
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Speaker 3: I didn't understand what he just said talking Spanish. I don't I didn't even understand the language.
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Speaker 1: I have five hundred miles the proclaimers.
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Speaker 2: What is the Roman numeral for five hundred? Ooh, I have I've got that look on my face.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea she gets this look and it has got a lot through the morning whatever.
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Speaker 4: It's like catalog into my computer like that. Right out here, I'm going to so x's X is ten. Oh God, we've got to producer helping us holding up team.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go me.
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Speaker 4: X, that's nothing.
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Speaker 2: Three as five five D is five hundred.
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 2: Because this is the Roman numerals are still in the primary school. Match is one where parents has got I cannot remember. I mean, who wants to know what year of film was made? And that's the only time we ever use it. But Roman numerals were on the prim school massorders, take it away, sting number three last one square.
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Speaker 3: Oh, this is going to be a square question.
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Speaker 1: I think it is one.
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Speaker 2: You've got this, Juna, You've got this. Look across the table at rabbit. You see a big square GNA picture of big square. What is the what are each of the angles in a square? All the angles are the same? What are the angles in a square equal to? And degrees?
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Speaker 4: Come?
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Speaker 1: What stop helping Laura in the ninety degree angles?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 1: Were you in school?
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Speaker 2: What? Four?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, here it comes.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Sixty No, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I'll make two observations here. One I would have been happy just with ninety. But two, most importantly, kids at home, if you're going to cheat on a test, don't have the person in the background talking.
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Speaker 4: Trying to help you also has no idea.
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Speaker 2: Don't get the winner of the Rabbit versus Jenner Matt squiz was Lauren?
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Speaker 1: It's three sixty, right, she said, Adam, she said one eighty, and you told her she wonic.
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Speaker 2: It turns out today there were no winners. MAT's one oh one. That's what you need people.
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Speaker 4: We need it.
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Speaker 1: Every there has been an example of a need for something. Adam Spencer's and Math's one oh one. It is out now. Adam, thank you so much for joining us. Great to talk to you again.
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Speaker 2: Pleasure as always. Got's do your homework and I'll see you next week.
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Speaker 4: That's not gonna happen.