I’m learning Math!!!! To crack GMAT!!!!

Last weekend I went and purchased this Math for Junior book and it is awesome, it’s teaching me Numbers, Integers (includes positive and negative – which I didn’t know earlier) and their calculations and a whole lot of other amazing stuff which I haven’t perused yet, it’s going to be a great learning experience for me. Here are some interesting excerpts from the book, (btw I am going through page 7 of 298, so it would not be a lengthy excerpt).

-100 is always greater than -1000
Digits are integers 0-9 and the places in a number are called digit places, for example lets take 357, 7 is in the ones digit place, five in the tens and 3 in the hundreds digit place.

The book quizzes you also to test your skills, here’s one quiz

If you have five (5) Frisbees and someone gave you three (3) more, how many Frisbees would you have?

My Answer: Ummm, Hmmmm, Ummmm, Ahhhh, can I borrow more time to crack this? Also can I have tools like a calculator, 1.4 gigabyte processing powered computer?

All kidding aside, I think it’s a great book at building basics, which I lack, basically I gotta give credit to an amazing math teacher back at school, who always used to ridicule me and make me sit outside the class for every math session.

Note to all my Math teachers from elementary to High school:
Wish you people knew that school is a place where kids (like me at one point of time) come to learn and need not necessarily be good or expected to be good in a particular subject, it’s your job to make him good and excel at it, not ridicule him just because he failed to solve one simple addition problem during class I and make him sit out the entire Math learning life. Wish you judged me not by my weakness to solve a problem but by my eagerness to learn how to solve.