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I forgot my my most exciting bit of news. At least I think it's thrilling. My sight mate Yusuf and I have been playing Cribbage for the last couple of months (because we are that old) and I have gotten a hold of a genuine Cribbage board. Here to fore we've been making tick marks on paper. About a week ago I pulled out the board while we were at the youth center and suddenly the game became interesting to all the students around us. So I began to teach the rules of the game to my favorite wee people and it quickly came to my attention that they have absolutely no mental math skills.
I am nothing if not a teacher, so at the first sign of math struggles out comes my pen and paper. I am thrilled to inform one and all that Cribbage has become a perfect intro to math tutoring. As yet it's too soon to see if it's working, but it's a start and that is all I need, I must admit, my kingdom for an abicus.