Jason Bateman was on the Jimmy Kimmel at home show, where he was promoting season three of Ozark. (I know so many of you love Ozark, but I couldn’t get into it. The first episode was too bleak for me but if you make a case that I should watch it, I will hear you out!) Jason’s hair was all grown out and it looked like he was calling from his office, which had a window behind him that showed the entry to his house. We got to see his younger daughter Maple, 8, outside the window along with his family’s dog. I’m loving seeing all the kids and dogs on these shows. It was fun to watch because Jimmy both gave Jason crap along with admitting that he watched him so much on TV when he was growing up. Jimmy was fanboying a little! Jason admitted that he’s having some issues with homeschooling like so many other parents.
Do you have a handwashing ritual?
20 seconds is not a problem for me. I learned this from Leonardo DiCaprio in the Howard Hughes movie. He scrapes his hands with his fingernails so you get the soap underneath your fingernails. It’s pretty genius.My fingernails are getting pretty gross long. I don’t clip ‘em. I start with a chew and then I do a very elegant peel. I’m not putting my fingers in my mouth [now]. So I’ve got almost four weeks of growth.
How’s the family?
I’ve been pretending to be [C19] positive for three weeks just to stay away from them. No they’re doing great.Are you helping the kids with homework? You were a child actor. You were on those sets with schools. They were just like labor factories, right?
I’m having trouble teaching my eight year old second grade. Long division is very difficult. I’m great with art. I’m great with setting up the zoom sessions, change the background I’m really good with that.All those people doing all that incredible medical work, if our job is just to stay home that’s the least that we can do.
After that Jimmy did a quiz with Jason where he asked him if he remembered his roles on TV in the 80s and 90s and it was hilarious. I thought some of the shows Jimmy was describing were fake because the plot setups were absolutely ridiculous. They played a clip from a movie he was in called “Moving Target” and I laughed so hard! I truly needed that.
As for Jason not being able to do his kid’s math, honestly I probably wouldn’t be able to do that either. My son was a little bit older than that (ok he was around that age) when he started surpassing me in just about everything except English. I can still help with writing and especially literature interpretation but that’s it! He’s constantly explaining things to me, in some cases about educational shows that we watched together years ago. How does he remember those things?
Oh and Jason wore a comfy looking hoodie for his appearance. Yesterday I wore a hoodie to a business meeting on Zoom as I just couldn’t bother to change out of my athleisure. Both of the guys I met with were wearing hoodies too. Here’s that interview!
I think part of the problem with parents teaching math is that there is a “new” approach to teaching math that isn’t the same as when we learned it. I’m an engineer, studied high level math in college, and I couldn’t make heads or tails out of my kids homework assignments. Multiplication was taught to my kids using some goofy triangle system. I had no clue.. Parents, don’t feel bad!
Yes I should have mentioned this! I couldn’t figure out that new teaching method at all and that’s why I was so confused. Why did they do that it makes no sense.
I think the newer ways of teaching allowed kids to learn more complex math at a younger age once you get a hang of the new process. I would literally have zero clue how to do it, though. But I struggled a bit with math as a kid, so I kind of wonder if I would have done better if I’d been taught with the newer methods.
You are so right! My adventures in the new maths was highly embarrassing causing me to stay up late secretly learning what I needed to teach the next day. Fortunately most textbooks are online which demo the lessons.
Yes. I think the new ways are supposed to make the kids understand the complex reasoning behind how the answer is reached. We were taught, ‘this is how it’s done. Doesn’t matter why, just do it.’
My mom board put up a quote that said something like, ‘You can have a good day or you can help your child with their math work. You can’t have both.’ The struggle is real, Jason.
Absolutely – I saw a few posts about this in the last few days, it’s a different approach than what we were taught as kids.
This topic is one of my bugbears. I’m a math teacher, and I promise you, you can figure out math. The algorithms you learned were easy because it was just memorizing a process. You carry the one because you carry the one. No one knew what they were doing, they just practiced until they figured out the steps. Now kids actually learn what the steps are and what they mean. Lattice multiplication makes a ton of sense if you take 3 minutes to figure it out and makes the process much more clear. Kids today learn math in 4th grade that I taught in 6th just 15 years ago and they actually get it. Telling kids their math makes no sense and you don’t get it just gives them an excuse not to learn it.
@Moco, can you recommend a good website that explains this new math and how to do the work? I’m old, but I would actually like to learn it to keep my brain sharp. Thanks!
PS: I know this comment is off topic, but these are trying times…
I’m guessing this was a reply to the whole thread?
I looked at some of the new stuff and though it’s different than what we dd in the 80s, I think it’s really interesting and a great way to think about it that probably makes sense for a lot of kids.
Khan academy!!!!
I’m probably reading and posting this too late for anyone to see it, but Khan Academy makes the best (free!) videos to explain how to do new math. Starting when my son was about 4th grade, he’d come home with math saying his teacher said no parents would no how to do it and to look it up on khan academy. The spouse and I are both reasonably intelligent and educated people, but he was right! So I’d watch the videos to understand it with my son so I could help him if he got stuck.
Khan Academy for the win! It rocks
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Right now I’m teaching second grade poetry (love it) and second grade geometry. Second grade geometry broke me. I finally reached out to my son’s teacher in tears and she was like…. honey, it’s fine. Remember, he’s a kinesthetic learner, and they don’t learn well on video conference. Here’s what you do instead.
God bless teachers.
Oh that must be interesting to teach / learn poetry ! I found it almost cringy when I was young, but I’m attracted to it again
Yeah I couldn’t do it. The new math would kill me.
I said screw it and I am teaching my kids old math. They like it, it makes sense. Not all assignments can be done that way, but I don’t understand how simple math has been made so complicated. SMH
Thank you for this. I adore Jason Bateman. He’s got beautiful, kind eyes.
YES! Life-long crush. God, I’ve loved Jason Batman since he was Derek on Silver Spoons.
eww that fingernail biting thing literally sent chills down my body, in a bad way. so gross
Thank you! So so gross.
I know! Dude, clip your nails. You’re an adult.
I was a big fan, but I’m still a little sour on him anyway from the whole Tambor debacle. I tried Ozark though and couldn’t get into it.
Jason Bateman has always done it for me. I don’t know what it is but he draws me in. LOVE Ozark! I purposely held off watching the last two episodes of season three just to savor it a bit longer and then I caved. Ahhh…the pitfalls of streaming shows.
He’s like America’s older sister’s boyfriend. Funny, cute, and when he gives you a ride to school you like to look out the window and pretend he’s your boyfriend.
I have a total crush on him.
Yes, totally!
Yah, always have. Since Silver Spoons with Ricky Schroeder. Ahhhhhhhhhh.
Same! Proud 80s child here.
He’s gorgeous.
Oh, that was so cute. I’ve been watching him since I was little. He’s like a crush abs an old friend at the same time.
My 20 yr old helps my younger two kids with math, I can’t do it.
I’ve said it more than once during this quarantine, thank God that my kids are in their 20’s and I don’t have to homeschool because I would be an absolute terrible teacher…just awful.
Am I remembering this right-he was on Silver Spoons with (then) Ricky Schroeder?
I’m old.
YEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!! That was where my crush on him first started. XO
Swooooon. I heart Jason Bateman!! Although I could have done without the fingernail talk.
We gotta get him a nail file.
Please put that there’s an Easter bunny spoiler! My little one was sitting next to me. Thankfully she was doing her schoolwork and didn’t notice 🙂
A lot of kids in America use Eureka Math, which is a Common Core aligned curriculum using “new math.” Eureka Math has GREAT resources free to parents so they can learn “new math.”
A website called Embarc Online has great mini lessons, worksheets, quizzes, and even PPTs of whole lessons
YouTube the words “EngageNY + concept name” for demonstrations
Zearn.com has free video math lessons for kids using “new math.” You can pop them on and they can do it independently while you work from home.
Hope some of this helps!
I feel like that was a cry for help for nail clippers. I’ve always adored Jason and the longer hair suits him.
New math? I’m 58 and I have always struggled with anything over basic math.
I just don’t get trig, or geom math at all, ever.
Reading has always been my superpower. Introvert, bookworm, able to entertain myself for hours at a time.
My nephew speaks 4 languages, breezed thru engineering and IT classes, etc. but if he needs to cook? Beans on toast, cheese optional.
Interesting how some skills come so easily and others, nope.
That bit about the long fingernails actually made me feel a wave of nausea. Other than that, though, I adore him.