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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #40 on: September 08, 2013, 08:36:22 PM »
I should've clarified that.

Who didn't ask that as a kid?

But at some point you learn as an adult, working, that if nothing else, forcing your mind to think beyond your comfort zone is good in the long run besides the practical aspects.  I'm teaching my kid to sew and I love teasing her that's she's using math because she looks at fractions and says the same thing.

So anyway, it's as if some of those kids who asked that are now running things and they're still saying who needs that stuff? They don't value it because it has no value in their life (or so they think).  Because in a generation or two who will be building their homes and programming their phones for them?


(Math is as much about teaching logical thinking as it is about the mechanics.

But they're right, if all you want to do is make $15 @ McDonalds, I guess you don't need Algebra II.  Or maybe that's why people want the minimum wage raised.)
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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #41 on: September 30, 2013, 08:15:25 AM »
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(Math is as much about teaching logical thinking as it is about the mechanics.

But they're right, if all you want to do is make $15 @ McDonalds, I guess you don't need Algebra II.  Or maybe that's why people want the minimum wage raised.)

If that's your goal than you won't need that either. All you need is to enter cash tendered into machine and you get the amount of change if any to be given back. Machines for idiots that cannot count. ::bashing::

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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #42 on: September 30, 2013, 08:28:08 AM »

(Math is as much about teaching logical thinking as it is about the mechanics.

But they're right, if all you want to do is make $15 @ McDonalds, I guess you don't need Algebra II.  Or maybe that's why people want the minimum wage raised.)

If that's your goal than you won't need that either. All you need is to enter cash tendered into machine and you get the amount of change if any to be given back. Machines for idiots that cannot count. ::bashing::[/quote]

Neither can the kids behind the counters. I love to play with the snotty ones; if the bill's $3.78, I give them a $5.00 bill, they punch it in to the register, and then I say, "WAIT! Here's the 78 cents!"

Ever see a deer in the headlights?   ::hysterical::

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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #43 on: September 30, 2013, 08:36:54 AM »
Neither can the kids behind the counters. I love to play with the snotty ones; if the bill's $3.78, I give them a $5.00 bill, they punch it in to the register, and then I say, "WAIT! Here's the 78 cents!"

Ever see a deer in the headlights?   ::hysterical::

Even better, I'll give 'em $5.03.  Their eyes, as the register tells them to give me a buck and a quarter back in change, are like a kid watching a magic show.  How did I do that?
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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #44 on: September 30, 2013, 08:42:52 AM »
That works, too!  ::hysterical::

Those brats could not survive without the computer in the registers that tells them what to do. Wait until the big blackout occurs; it's not a matter of "if," just a matter of "when." Same thing for the schools with no more requirements to even recognize a slide rule for solving math problems.
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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #45 on: September 30, 2013, 08:55:41 AM »
Neither can the kids behind the counters. I love to play with the snotty ones; if the bill's $3.78, I give them a $5.00 bill, they punch it in to the register, and then I say, "WAIT! Here's the 78 cents!"

Ever see a deer in the headlights?   ::hysterical::

Even better, I'll give 'em $5.03.  Their eyes, as the register tells them to give me a buck and a quarter back in change, is like a kid watching a magic show.  How did I do that?

And then they wonder, why they only make $8.00 an hour. ::facepalm::

I remember a few years ago, local newspapers stopped printing te names of students, who made honor roll, because it made the other kids feel bad. Tough  sh*t! If you want to make honor roll, work for it!

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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #46 on: September 30, 2013, 09:11:07 AM »
Now there must be two valedictorians, too. One male, one female. If they're even allowed to be valedictorians; it offends the dumbsh*ts and their parent(s).
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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #47 on: September 30, 2013, 09:37:11 AM »
Now there must be two valedictorians, too. One male, one female. If they're even allowed to be valedictorians; it offends the dumbsh*ts and their parent(s).

Oh good grief!

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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #48 on: September 30, 2013, 11:19:20 AM »
There will always be private schools, and homeschools.
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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #49 on: September 30, 2013, 11:21:34 AM »
They'll be 3 soon (the gays) and then 4 (the androgynous), and then...oh heck, forgetaboutit, we'll all be dead by then!

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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #50 on: September 30, 2013, 12:46:13 PM »
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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #51 on: September 30, 2013, 03:14:51 PM »
someone say slide rule?

I have my dad's.  He never showed me how to use it.

The big high school in our neighborhood has 5 honor rolls. 5!!
I forgot the breakdown--each has a name but it's like all A's, all B's and then various combinations of the two

99% of the kids go on to college--mostly the big state school where they continue the same education drivel they had in high school.  So since there's no exposure to anything different they come out just as dumb as they went in.
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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #53 on: September 30, 2013, 04:26:35 PM »
There will always be private schools, and homeschools.

Becareful there. Big Brother wants to outlaw homeschooling.
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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #54 on: September 30, 2013, 04:40:59 PM »
There will always be private schools, and homeschools.

Becareful there. Big Brother wants to outlaw homeschooling.

they are constantly trying to do just that

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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #55 on: September 30, 2013, 04:54:59 PM »
There will always be private schools, and homeschools.

Becareful there. Big Brother wants to outlaw homeschooling.

I have a lot of respect for parents that homeschool their kids. I couldn't it myself.

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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #56 on: September 30, 2013, 04:58:55 PM »
There will always be private schools, and homeschools.

Becareful there. Big Brother wants to outlaw homeschooling.

I have a lot of respect for parents that homeschool their kids. I couldn't it myself.

Been homeschooling for 21 years. Honestly I don't how parents do the public school thing. I couldn't do that.  lol 
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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #57 on: October 10, 2013, 08:13:02 AM »
I'd rather these idiots be beaten with 2x4's.

 ::thumbsup:: ...and since everyone knows that 2x4 = 88, that's how many whacks each will receive.
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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #58 on: October 10, 2013, 11:05:44 AM »
I'd rather these idiots be beaten with 2x4's.

 ::thumbsup:: ...and since everyone knows that 2x4 = 88, that's how many whacks each will receive.

Heh!  Beaten with their own math, I like!
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Re: Common Core: 3X4=11
« Reply #59 on: October 10, 2013, 04:11:04 PM »
I'd rather these idiots be beaten with 2x4's.

 ::thumbsup:: ...and since everyone knows that 2x4 = 88, that's how many whacks each will receive.

Heh!  Beaten with their own math, I like!

see, math is useful!
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