Old Man Posted May 17, 2023 Report Share Posted May 17, 2023 Which is funny because scientific notation counts the zeros for you. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 17, 2023 Report Share Posted May 17, 2023 I think it's just a facet of the reflexive horror of actual math which our school and teacher preparation systems have been programmed to instill in students starting in 1st grade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 17, 2023 Report Share Posted May 17, 2023 19 minutes ago, Cancer said: I think it's just a facet of the reflexive horror of actual math which our school and teacher preparation systems have been programmed to instill in students starting in 1st grade. If there was one thing I could change about education in America this would be close to the top of the list. I get that math instruction tends strongly toward being abstract and dry, but this has to be a solvable problem, right? And it's been exceptionally frustrating watching both my kids come down with a bad case of hating math. Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 19, 2023 Report Share Posted May 19, 2023 "Hate the teacher, not the subject." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 19, 2023 Report Share Posted May 19, 2023 7 minutes ago, Cancer said: "Hate the teacher, not the subject." Fine, but then how can we get better teachers-- (remembers low pay, critical race theory, trans students, violent students, guns in schools) --you know what, never mind. I'm gonna go read up on AI teaching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 19, 2023 Report Share Posted May 19, 2023 (edited) Perhaps, go back to letting teachers be teachers and not state-sponsored de facto surrogate parents? Increase their pay across the board. Fundamentally change the curriculum. Focus on these subjects: language (reading, writing*), poetics, dialectic, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, harmony/music, natural science, natural philosophy, ontology, ethics, Latin, technology usage. *different forms of writing: essays, poems, short stories, letters, maybe include a play too. addendum: forgot to include epistemology (or criterology) as a subject. Maybe include natural theology as well. second addendum: additional subjects: meditation (or contemplation), physical education (ie sport, which would also include martial arts), ikigai. third addendum: history, historicity, law (Roman law aka nowadays called civil law, English common law, international law, human rights law). 4th addendum: economics & political economy, specifically the type that goes under the names Hamiltonian, American System, Protectionism, National Banking. Edited May 19, 2023 by Bazza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 19, 2023 Report Share Posted May 19, 2023 (political) Spoiler Hey, I know this is a site that explicitly works with fantasy games, but now you're way out there in fantasyland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 19, 2023 Report Share Posted May 19, 2023 (edited) That’s ok. I learnt from the best…realists. Edited May 19, 2023 by Bazza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted July 23, 2023 Report Share Posted July 23, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted July 24, 2023 Report Share Posted July 24, 2023 It's a niche skill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 30, 2023 Report Share Posted July 30, 2023 1,990,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (approximately) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted August 1, 2023 Report Share Posted August 1, 2023 It’s always the last place you look. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 1, 2023 Report Share Posted August 1, 2023 Well, I mean yeah ... once you've found it, why would you keep looking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 1, 2023 Report Share Posted August 1, 2023 thatsthejoke.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 1, 2023 Report Share Posted August 1, 2023 42 minutes ago, Pariah said: Well, I mean yeah ... once you've found it, why would you keep looking? amnesia. short term memory loss dementia old age senior moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 3, 2023 Report Share Posted August 3, 2023 I feel attacked! Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 3, 2023 Report Share Posted August 3, 2023 Come to think of it, what measurement system do the giraffes use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 3, 2023 Report Share Posted August 3, 2023 The hoof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 3, 2023 Report Share Posted August 3, 2023 49 minutes ago, Old Man said: Come to think of it, what measurement system do the giraffes use? Decimal. Metric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted August 4, 2023 Report Share Posted August 4, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted August 5, 2023 Report Share Posted August 5, 2023 Many, if not all, of the US imperial units are DEFINED in metric. Irony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DentArthurDent Posted August 5, 2023 Report Share Posted August 5, 2023 2.718281828459045 I didn’t have to look this one up. Memorizing it is a result of doing math before hand held calculators could do more than multiply and divide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 6, 2023 Report Share Posted August 6, 2023 6 hours ago, DentArthurDent said: 2.718281828459045 I didn’t have to look this one up. Memorizing it is a result of doing math before hand held calculators could do more than multiply and divide. Yeah that one's a real pain when you're using an abacus. Pariah and DentArthurDent 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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