"Un-used" things

Thanks to Dave Santoro and his online resources, I was successful in retrieving my "un-used" METRICS:):) When I immigrated to Bath, Maine, from Indonesia in 1974, I switched from METRICS to the POUNDS, GALLONS, and FEET/MILES. That was challenging, to say the least because they are not based on tens!! When I put my metric "away" in my "basement" for the last 32 years, they became "mouldy" and "rusty" so naturally when I tried to think of/switching to metric today, I was confused!! Math is just like language you know, if you don't use it enough, you may not remember accurately. Revisiting was easier though and my mother's metric teachings, that's right, not my teachers', came back. The reason is plain and simple, my mother helped me "see" things. She made me create a stairway to help me remember the metric system!!
My job as the Literacy intervention educator (using READ 180 program on the computer) has become more interesting when I began the implementating a Math intervention, called iSucceed Math, also a computer program. I was able to intergrate Literacy AND Math simultaneously, giving students more support in Literacy to help them better understand Math concepts. I am so glad that Maggie wants us to "CALL NUMBERS BY THEIR REAL NAMES/VALUES," instead of digits. "KYE" is an interesting system. I wonder though, will it work with four or more digit subtractions? Or does it work for three digit subtractions only?
Speaking of homework, was I suppose to just read the article "3 Is Not Three?" Or am I supposed to do something else?? Perhaps I was not listening to Maggie when she assigned that to us:):):) Am I in trouble now?????