I wish I had that. I remember wondering and asking why 10 was such a "perfect" number for everything when I was little and never got a good explanation until I learned about different bases in high school.
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Because of my age (33) I grew up on the New Math. And I thought it sucked AS A CHILD. I was always "shortcutting" away back to the actual numbers like that engineer example above. And estimating. And any number of other things. I particularly remember never getting a straight answer as to why you could subtract 7 ones from 13 ones, but you couldn't just subtract 7 from 13 DIRECTLY, you had to "show" the conversion from 10s into 1s first.
So even as a child of the new math, that and the CC stuff is just horrific. And I thought so when learning it as well.
So even as a child of the new math, that and the CC stuff is just horrific. And I thought so when learning it as well.
I generally think a lot of how math is taught DOES need to be reworked... growing up, the go to excuse for why I could never use a calculator was always "What, are you always going to carry one around with you?" and now we live in an age where everyone carries one around, all the time, because it's on their god damn cellphone. We need to accept this reality and teach kids to use them correctly from an early age. I'm not saying the pencil and paper stuff isn't important (it is) but I was never even taught how to use a calculator to do stuff beyond add/subtract/multiply/divide until COLLEGE.
If it's about "easily readable" numbers and so on, it would make more sense to teach kids in base 8. 4 (times two) is far easier and faster to intuit than 5 (times 2). Yes, our numerical system is based on 10, sadly. Doesn't mean that for someone starting out, 8 isn't technically easier.
(or 12, like the Babylonians did. Learn clock reading like a boss)
The chief complaint I'm seeing on my Facebook is that children show up at home with these things, and the parents can't help because it's their first time seeing it in their lives. Perhaps schools should send some kind of "Common Core Bootcamp" booklet, written as a Old Math -> New Math cheatsheet? Even a few photocopies stapled together could help.
This scared the shit out of my cat, she clawed at me, bolted out of my chair and ran. I'll test playing it tonight while she sleeps.
Assuming they have a textbook they can bring home with them (that isn't always the case), read THAT. Ask what page the homework is from, and read the lesson yourself. A disturbing amount of the time, it'll be the exact same lesson as they got!
Side note: this is exactly what happened with grade 9 math for me. The teacher was a f'n moron gym teacher who they had teaching math with every single example directly from the textbook. The %&*@ sometimes sent other people to ME because I was best at math in the class because she herself didn't "really" understand it. On the (extremely rare) occasion I had an issue, I went to my grade 8 math teacher, who was actually a math teacher, and she helped. Thank you Mrs. Radomsky. Yes I still remember her name, she was that good. The other one? I can take a guess at her name, and that's about it.
Dave
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Tags, you say....?
That seems like a very lazy joke.
What, Gas billing Grammar Nazis for the storage space on his website? It's only proper for them to pay him for hosting all those grammatically correct memes.
GasBandit
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What are you even
I'm trying to somehow find a better joke than the battered old dead horse of the Nazis having a high gas bill in there.
Most probably the Illuminati.
Nah, probably the Council of the Elders of Zion, for advancing their Zionist plans by several decades through the strategic sacrifice of Ashkenazi Jews (do you really think the name is a coincidence? Ash + Nazi? WAKE UP SHEEPLE)
At the risk of running afoul of Poe 's Law, I've actually seen someone claim that the whole of WWII was a set-up by Zionists to manipulate the League of Nations into creating Israel. So, you know....
Hey, don't bring me into this.
Yep, that's one of the concepts I was referencing. I've interacted with stormfronters and revisionists on more occasions than it is charitable to.
I wonder if the teeny tiny skill penholder is a reference to sugar skulls, so as to evoke the ratlines in a misguided pan-american way. It's fun to read too much into things
These videos always make me shed a patriotic tear.
