THE FOUR COSMIC CURVES Note that Earthschooling tackles this in high school… The cone contains the four primary mathematical principles of creation (see diagram A). In horizontal section we have the Circle, the curve of beginning – ‘…and God divided…’! The circle is the curve of Division, of the physical or structural body – the […]
BLOCK: G8 Math
What is X? Why is Y? Math Texts in 7th and 8th Grade
TRIAL BY TEXTBOOK So we’ve had our three maths main lessons in Class 8, and used a wide range of numeracy skills in many other units throughout the year – is this enough? Alas no – mathematics is a subject, especially in this techno-mad age, requiring continual, sequential and incremental development, in particular in concept-challenged […]
What is X? Why is Y? Logarithms in 8th Grade
THE LOGOS OF NUMBER Logarithms – Class 8 – Main Lesson The student teacher’s face was a mask of misery as she sat beside the hospital bed – more miserable even than the old-hand high school teacher occupying said bed with a broken leg! “But I know so little about maths!” Student Teacher protested “How […]
What is X? Why is Y? Personal Finance in 8th Grade
MY WORD IS MY BOND Personal Finance – Class 8 – Main Lesson The Iranian god Mithra was born from a rock; his mission, to serve an earth-bound humanity. He sits on the right-hand side of Ahura Mazdao, the Sun God. Mithra slew the Cosmic Bull; whose blood subsequently nourished the sentient animal world – […]
What is X? Why is Y? Geometry in Architecture for 8th Grade
BUILDING BLOCKS OF NUMBER Geometry in Architecture – Class 8 – Main Lesson As a Class Guardian for the new pioneer high school class in Lorien Novalis School in 1981, I took Rudolf Steiner’s injunction on the need for specialist teachers in secondary school seriously – even for my Class 8. So having few maths […]
What is X? Why is Y? Cosmometry to Geometry in G7 & G8
AS ABOVE – SO BELOW Cosmometry to Geometry I am Point, the Horror Vacuum – of revelation. My nothingness ignites fear in the material heart. I am the Fount of Man – spirit-water of Word, Spirit-light, a sword. From me all Being is born, to me all Beings are drawn. I am Circle – […]
What is X? Why is Y? How Do Measurements Emerge?
THE RUTTED TRACK TO SPACE The US standard railway gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they build them in England, and the English expatriates built the US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because […]
What is X? Why is Y? Overview of Finance from G1 to G12
BLUE CHIP LEMONADE An overview of the Finance-Economics program from Class 1 to 12 Occasionally as I lie awake in the wee small hours, my mind fixates on some minor cash-flow problem. Soon the black dog of depression enters my gloom-induced fantasy and chases me through the thickets of illusion. Here I imagine that the […]
What is X? Why is Y? Introduction to 7th & 8th Grade Math
THE 100,000 CRANES What is X? Why is Y? is a transition book, straddling Class 7 primary and Class 8 high school. As such, it seems reasonable to review the number path traveled by children to this point. The following is a brief exposition on Geometry – “Earth Measure”. A 7-year-old girl in Hiroshima was […]