Grandparents! Help Your Grandkids Do Math!

Written by Kenneth Williams


This may come as a surprise.

But despite allrepparttar advances in education, many kids still struggle inrepparttar 110850 math class.

Math is an important subject, yet many kids just don't "get it".

Teachers can only devote a limited amount of personal attention to each student.

And parents are so busy with their own work nowadays, they don't have time to help their children with school work.

That's where YOU,repparttar 110851 grandparent, come in!

Grandparents teach their grandchildren through example and play a role in encouraging them to be successful and set goals.

Grandparents are naturally forgiving and patient, and children sense that.

As a grandparent you can help right fromrepparttar 110852 time your grandkids are toddlers, by asking them questions involving numbers, and showing them how important math is to our lives:

- Ask them number-based questions, like: "How many books do you want to read tonight?"

- Or: "How many miles to grandma's house?"

- Show them basic fractions by dividing groups of jelly beans into halves and quarters.

- Bake cookies together and teach them how to measure ingredients.

- Make something inrepparttar 110853 wood shop and teach them how to use a ruler.

The time you spend with your grandchild is a blessing for both of you. If you work with your grandchildren and teach themrepparttar 110854 simple basics of math, they will develop a natural talent for it and move torepparttar 110855 head ofrepparttar 110856 class.

Decorating Your Rooms with Area Rugs

Written by Alex Wu


Area rugs, such as Tibetan rugs, arerepparttar number one decoration choice for many people because of their rich history, enchanting designs, and outstanding collection value. Hanging onrepparttar 110849 wall or coveringrepparttar 110850 floor, each every single piece of rug is unique with its own story to tell. Choosingrepparttar 110851 right rug for a given room will have different touch torepparttar 110852 living environment, sincerepparttar 110853 appearance of these rugs will enhance and be enhance byrepparttar 110854 surroundings.

There are many things we should know and consider when buying area rugs. The pattern, color, shape, size, religious symbol, andrepparttar 110855 location you want to put it, all these make uprepparttar 110856 uniqueness of your area rug.

Patterns of area rugs haverepparttar 110857 most long lasting first impression to people. As its history suggests, a certain rug style evolved along withrepparttar 110858 development of a certain group of people. The tradition and belief of these people was abstracted into motif, pattern, and colors onrepparttar 110859 rug. Most area rugs we see inrepparttar 110860 market today are well-designed to cater torepparttar 110861 taste and commercial needs of modern society, and most of them are well-accepted inrepparttar 110862 Western world. This is somehow different thanrepparttar 110863 origianl rugs that have been existing inrepparttar 110864 region for thousands of years. The rug trading has a long history that can be traced back to fourteenth century, when Italian merchants introducedrepparttar 110865 first pile carpets to Europe from Ottoman Empire. As European and American merchants' involvement intorepparttar 110866 carpetmaking industry,repparttar 110867 patterns and style are more or less influenced by Western culture.

Sizing is probablyrepparttar 110868 most important question you should think about. Ideally,repparttar 110869 best time to choose rug is whenrepparttar 110870 room is empty. You can set off your room aroundrepparttar 110871 theme thatrepparttar 110872 rug renders and there is more choice in wall paper and furniture than there is in rug. However, in most cases,repparttar 110873 room is already filled with something, or you already have something in mind. This can makerepparttar 110874 decision more complicated. After all, bear in mind that area rugs is not a solution for wall-to-wall floor covering. If you are thinking coverrepparttar 110875 whole floor area, you may need to consider broadloom carpeting and use small colorful throw rugs as accents on top of it. To coverrepparttar 110876 most floor area with a single piece of area rug, it's better to leave eighteen to twenty-four inches of bare floor at all four sides. This works as frames to beautiful pictures and can emphasizerepparttar 110877 beauty ofrepparttar 110878 uniqueness ofrepparttar 110879 rug you've chosen.



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