Tracy O'Brien

I had a dislike for using flash cards to learn math facts as a child, and I don’t know that I like them much better now that I’m a teacher! But I do see the need for our knowledge of these facts in our daily lives. I have watched my own children using their mental math skills in reading the scores and statistics of sports games. Now because of Dear Old Dad’s interest in sports, this made for some very interesting and mathematical based conversations. I felt that this constant use of their math f

I had a dislike for using flash cards to learn math facts as a child, and I don’t know that I like them much better now that I’m a teacher! But I do see the need for our knowledge of these facts in our daily lives. I have watched my own children using their mental math skills in reading the scores and statistics of sports games. Now because of Dear Old Dad’s interest in sports, this made for some very interesting and mathematical based conversations. I felt that this constant use of their math f

I had a dislike for using flash cards to learn math facts as a child, and I don’t know that I like them much better now that I’m a teacher! But I do see the need for our knowledge of these facts in our daily lives. I have watched my own children using their mental math skills in reading the scores and statistics of sports games. Now because of Dear Old Dad’s interest in sports, this made for some very interesting and mathematical based conversations. I felt that this constant use of their math f

Created for a high school creative writing class. I wrote and illustrated this story in 1975.

I had a dislike for using flash cards to learn math facts as a child, and I don’t know that I like them much better now that I’m a teacher! But I do see the need for our knowledge of these facts in our daily lives. I have watched my own children using their mental math skills in reading the scores and statistics of sports games. Now because of Dear Old Dad’s interest in sports, this made for some very interesting and mathematical based conversations. I felt that this constant use of their math f