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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
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On 2013-08-08 10:44, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: One here. |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Obviously I saw some of the new math, and watched as the colored rods came out to play. Funny how they don't help multiply four numbers at a time.
typography in the mirror if I recall the humor from back in the days of elephant jokes... Which climaxed in peanut butter and no soap radio.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2013-08-08 12:29, LobowolfXXX wrote: I doubt that 27 November has the same correlation that 31 October and 25 December have.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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foreva.infiniti Regular user 6 Posts a + a 6 Posts = 116 Posts |
I 2nd that Ed
Colors are Foreva. Numbers are Infinite. 4 every number there's a color. HEY! Eternity! Lets smoke a beer and drink some loud. But wait! I heard you was a six a plus a 6 ahhhh.
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts |
The smartass schoolboy Gauss story was what hooked me when I was seven. Went to bed, unable to sleep, adding consecutive numbers.
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MobilityBundle Regular user Las Vegas/Boston 120 Posts |
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On 2013-08-08 10:44, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: I never had the pleasure. I'm not sure if it was before my time or after my time. Chronologically, certainly before my time. But, I get the sense that the Vegas education system was at least 10-20 years behind the state of the art (at least when I was growing up; probably different now), so maybe the New Math just hadn't made it out to me yet. My early mathematical education was pretty much what the New Math was rebelling against: from what I recall, a little bit of lecture, then lots of rote practice. And frankly, I wouldn't have it any other way. A friend of mine from college (and fellow math major) is now back in grad school, having worked in industry for 10 or so years in the interim. He's at University of Maryland, which I believe is a pretty decent (if not pretty good) all-around school. He reports that his calculus students uniformly have problems with stuff that was considered basic in our generation, like manipulating fractions (even fractions with variables in them!). These are all kids who got 4s and 5s on their AP calculus tests in high school. (For foreign readers: "AP" is "advanced placement," with a top grade of 5. Most colleges in the country give credit for intro-level classes if a student gets a 4 or 5 on the corresponding AP exam.) I weep for the future... |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
New Math involved a lot of work with sets. Everything was expressed in set-builder notation, from elementary school through high school. We worried about equivalence relations but not partial orders. The big deal was that New Math was highly abstract. I enjoyed it.
Since then, we've had reforms galore. In the 80s it was decreed that school mathematics should be nothing but problem-solving. In the late 90s it was somehow decided that theory was fine, but it had to be made concrete, with physical manipulation being the key to mathematical understanding. In recent years, technology is the thing. Make it visual using calculators and computers, and math will be fine for everyone. We still haven't figured out that the mathematical needs of a generation are not a one-size-fits-all issue.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
My daughter sent me a lovely letter for Father's Day. She wrote, in part, "And I can calculate tips in my head faster than my friends can using their mobile phones!"
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General_Magician Special user United States 707 Posts |
I think math is an awesome subject. However, I was not very good student in my math classes despite taking and eventually passing (sometimes failing a class before taking it again) advanced math courses like Calc I, II, III, Linear Algebra, Mathematical Statistics and such. Those who get a degree in math are special people and are brilliant. I'm just not much of a mathematician. I also had to write a program as part of my programming courses in college using the Fibonacci numbers.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2013-08-09 06:32, ed rhodes wrote: And yet, it does.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2013-08-09 11:01, S2000magician wrote: I at least have some sympathy when people bust out the phone for 18%; for 10% or 20%, it's hard not to wince.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2013-08-09 08:51, foreva.infiniti wrote: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y682WUqxik
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
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On 2013-08-09 11:33, LobowolfXXX wrote: Um . . . 20% is easy, so 2% is easy, and 18% = 20% - 2%. If it's the subtraction that baffles them . . . go back to Tom Lehrer. |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
I did say "some."
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
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On 2013-08-09 13:30, LobowolfXXX wrote: A soupçon? |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
A scintilla.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
September 34?
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Was tough being told about sets while reading Gardner on Russell as informed by Godel's accomplishments. So much for new math in grade school. The student will recall that... Indeed.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On 2013-08-09 11:30, LobowolfXXX wrote: Ah, OK, I stand corrected. I only knew about the Halloween/Christmas because of Asimov's story. For the most part, math makes my head hurt. (I can do basic stuff in my head, but not this stuff.)
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
Thanks for the heads-up on that...will look for it. I only know it from here, when it was posted as a riddle.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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