Some of you old farts on the Hog
Mar 9, 2019 17:39:42 #
rmorrison1116 wrote:
You mean grand kids and great grand kids don't you... (show quote)
Seems you’re making excuses......it’s not about memorizing tables, this one would have been simple multiplication.
Mar 9, 2019 18:19:30 #
I find it interesting how a different approach to solution a problem, math problem, has generated so much negative responses....
Mar 9, 2019 19:04:24 #
fotkaman wrote:
No money for education because THE WALL is of higher priority! 
In most towns and cities, 75% of the tax money we pay goes to the school systems. That is a heck of a big chunk of change and we are getting no bang for our buck. The problem is the system not that they aren't getting enough money. We keep throwing money at education and it just keeps getting worse, so it has to be the looney-toon new methods and the much lower standards they have just to make the system look likes it working when it is obviously failing.
Mar 9, 2019 19:11:37 #
I learned my times tables up to 5X no problem, 6x through 9 not so good. Was sort of traumatized by a grade school teacher who assigned (over a vacation period) times tables written a great number of times. When I turned it in, he threw it away right in front of me. I figure 9 and 11 by using 10 and adding or subtracting the original number. (I like checking the product of 9 by its magical properties, the sum will always reduce to 9. Example: 9x3= 27, 2+7=9/ 9x9=81, 8+1=9/ 9x11=99, 9+9=18, 1+8=9 etc)
Mar 9, 2019 19:15:34 #
fotkaman
Loc: Earth
2Dragons wrote:
In most towns and cities, 75% of the tax money we pay goes to the school systems. That is a heck of a big chunk of change and we are getting no bang for our buck. The problem is the system not that they aren't getting enough money. We keep throwing money at education and it just keeps getting worse, so it has to be the looney-toon new methods and the much lower standards they have just to make the system look likes it working when it is obviously failing.
I hear you, my friend, it's that I am so frustrated with this intelingence-insulting bozo in the WH, that I took the opportunity to went it. I shouldn't have, for this is not my thread. So, PLEASE, don't respond to my shout into the dark on page 5! When I am ready, I'll create my own thread, thank you!
Mar 9, 2019 21:07:28 #
Mar 9, 2019 21:41:52 #
olemikey
Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
rmorrison1116 wrote:
how about progressive addition.
What is "progressive addition" ? Referring to; mathematics, optics, or progressive lenses?
Mar 9, 2019 21:42:32 #
Bigmike1
Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.
I could comment about why it is being taught like that but then I would be accused of being racist.
Mar 9, 2019 22:17:52 #
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Mar 9, 2019 22:59:43 #
fotkaman
Loc: Earth
chachie27 wrote:
Better intuition about math, better problem-solving
Intuition and math are as close to each other as the Milky Way and the Andromeda
Mar 9, 2019 23:15:11 #
Mar 10, 2019 00:41:16 #
rmorrison1116 wrote:
You mean grand kids and great grand kids don't you... (show quote)
Mine is pushing 50. Yikes!
Mar 10, 2019 05:01:33 #
Huey Driver wrote:
Some of you old farts on the Hog
need to go back to school and learn this stuff This is some of what's being taught to your kids, etc. I'm sure when they graduate they will throw out the old math and use this in everyday living? Give me a break ! ! !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlfa5v3ullg
need to go back to school and learn this stuff This is some of what's being taught to your kids, etc. I'm sure when they graduate they will throw out the old math and use this in everyday living? Give me a break ! ! !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlfa5v3ullg
That woman's voice would make anything boring. She excelled in this video.
Out of curiosity, what was your point?
Bill
Mar 10, 2019 10:54:54 #
Maybe I'm just old school. Granddaughter said after showing her the old way, "Papa can you come to my school and teach my teacher how do it faster!" Just say-in.
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