Mathmatics vs. Grammar

Yea for them....Connor and Cailin have advanced in their math curriculum one more time.

Connor loves math and is quite happy to finally be able to say..."I'm in Pre-Algebra"

Cailin's just glad she's done with long division (if only that were really true) and she's not at all happy to be going into Epsilon which focuses on fractions. Math is difficult for her to understand, yet, she does get it.

If only there was a way to parlay math concepts with grammar. She loves grammar.
She loves to parse/diagram sentences (where as Connor just groans at it)
She has all the helping verbs and linking verbs memorized. She's currently working on memorizing 44 prepositions.
She beat the tutor/teacher, Mrs. Jacobs, once in a contest to see who could write all the sentence purposes down the fastest.
Needless to say, grammar is what makes her tick! She thrives with it.
She does have quite a tenacious streak in her. When she gets it in her mind to do something, she'll do it. So, I'm trying to inspire her with examples from her Aunt Risa, who, when she was in school, was told she'd never do well with mathematics and to just get the minimum req's done then quit. Well, that teacher didn't know about her tenacious spirit, and she was going to "show that teacher a thing or two" she worked hard to understand math and she did! She's now an epidemiologist---she uses math everyday in her career. Way to go.....but Cailin just rolls her eyes at the story--I don't think I've inspired her yet. Ya' gotta help me here Risa!!