Happy August birthdays!

What do you mean it's the fifth already? *hides*

Happy belated birthdays to ani_bester, amberlion, and snapeophile and happy not-belated birthdays to bethbethbeth, sahiya, alisanne, wolfsavard, eeyore9990, dickgloucester, ginny_weasley31, mistee124, xochiquetzl, ubiquirk, and mundungus42.

This also means we've cycled around to when I started falling behind on bday fics last year. I shall attempt to get those done by the time people's bdays come up this year. *crosses fingers*

GP 2010 day 5

So, right now I'm grateful that the latest tornado warning came to nothing.

This is, what, the fifth one this summer? That's unheard of around here. Also, whilst under said warning, my fellow tutor and I observed that we work in what is essentially a giant glass box with few places one could reasonably duck for cover and that even an F0* tornado would probably reduce the whole place to shards.

So, yes, very, very grateful to have been bypassed and hoping that continues.

*Yes, I realized F1 is the smallest. Just a bit of hyperbole.

Well no wonder

Thank goodness I did actually put this on LJ under the tutoring tag, but given that it's almost 3 yrs old, I'm bumping it up in case I need it again soon. Also, it looks like the master copies of the French vs. American division methods comparison I made based on these pages have disappeared, so I'll be needing to do that again. It is definitely useful for our Haitian students in particular. Even having learned the American method, it has to just feel continually backwards, and then throwing weird algebraic expressions in ... yeah.

polynôme
http://villemin.gerard.free.fr/Calcul/Operatio/DivPoly.htm

Regular division, including decimals
http://villemin.gerard.free.fr/Calcul/Operatio/DivInit.htm