6th Grade Math: Fractions

I have always thought and believed I was a wiz when it came to math. I enjoyed the problems and the problem solving and I even got good grades.

Then I get married, have a bunch of kids, you know, live life.

Then my oldest needs help with 6th grade math fractions.

I think I can handle them. I loved fractions when I was in school.

I understood fractions.

Well, apparently while I was living my life,

my brain was trading all things fractions

(multiplying, dividing, adding, and subtracting)

with the best way to calm a crying baby, how to get throw up out of the carpet,

how to do laundry for 6 people in 1 day,

(it sounds like a fraction, but it is impossible. Fractions have answers)

etc.

After swallowing my pride or whatever,

I get online to look up the classroom book website.

After Sarah finds it for me (I am utterly humiliated now) I start studying.

There was a cracking somewhere deep in my brain and

I no longer know how to calm a crying baby,

but I do know how to divide and multiply fractions.

4 hours later I was able to help Sarah with questions she had

and all 7 pages of not-yet-turned-in homework are done.