| I know a boy who can recite over 100 digits of pi and won a prize at his elementary school in St. Charles, Illinois for doing it. His name is Eric (Xiong) Ye and he is 10. He doesn't use email because he'd rather play with his Xbox.
At first I thought that the school was giving a stupid assignment, but when he told me how he was learning the numbers (by "chunking") I realized that it was a terrific way to develop intelligence. And of course, that is exactly what I am doing when I try to learn to write Chinese characters. Most people who chunk don't have names for most of the categories they used to group things, they just do it. Thanks for the blog. We are renting an apartment in Shanghai in the fall and all the information is great, plus it helps us dream about the trip. Zjemi |
Loooong Domain Name - Pi