This is my Grandpa...

Kat Woman · 18th August 2009, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by zulu Delta 534

I hope Kat woman takes good note of that photograph. She now knows what you will possibly look like in future years.
That beard would look good flowing in a S2a.

So, he's possibly going to look better than he does now - bonus.

If he grows a beard, he could use it as a scarf in the S2a.

**Newbs-IIA** · 18th August 2009, 04:41 PM

I remember those blocks!!!

I used to love building stuff out of them, buildings, houses etc back in primary school

**Grockle** · 18th August 2009, 05:06 PM

Pass on my congratulations from this side of the globe.

**Sleepy** · 18th August 2009, 05:15 PM

Wow - I remember fooling with those blocks in 1969!

When somone says 10 cubed = 1000, I still visualise those funny little blocks.

Cool scallops - very cool

**solmanic** · 18th August 2009, 07:22 PM

Wow.
Sounds like a Fields medal candidate.

**LandyAndy** · 18th August 2009, 08:31 PM

Hey Scallops.
Something to be VERY proud of.
ENJOY

Andrew

JohnR · 18th August 2009, 09:23 PM

That's so cool Scallops

I was taught maths using those blocks and remembering it being a defining moment in my learning as I finally thought maths was fun using these things. So next time you talk/email him, tell him thanks from me

By the way equally as cool as all of this is, having a Granddad named "Zoltan Dienes" rocks and as if it couldn't get any cooler he's from "Wolfville" !!!

Respect

Cheers,

**isuzurover** · 19th August 2009, 01:07 AM

Very impressive!!!

On a related note, a friend of mine is a mathematician at Griffith Uni, and was the first indigenous aussie to get a PhD in Maths or Science. He is working on improving the way Maths and Stats are taught to indigenous kids...

**Scallops** · 19th August 2009, 07:26 AM

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Very impressive!!!

On a related note, a friend of mine is a mathematician at Griffith Uni, and was the first indigenous aussie to get a PhD in Maths or Science. He is working on improving the way Maths and Stats are taught to indigenous kids...

That's wonderful. Perhaps you might like to mention the Dienes structured learning program to him, if he is not already aware of it. Grandpa's learning techniques have been shown to work across all cultural and language barriers, so why not with our Nunga brothers and sisters?

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