algebra = hard...should we get rid of it?

mikepegg44

Cosmo wrote:

Jeanwah wrote:

all in due time.... sigh. And the dictionary won't be a printed book, it'll be available only digitally.

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I understand that progress has changed humanity since forever. Our memory had to be better before we figured out writing. Books did make it easier for us, because we no longer had to re-tell stories in full from memory. The benefit there was people being able to accumulate a greater amount of knowledge.
And a kid once asked my why he needed to learn math, when there are calculators that'll do the work for them. I told him that he HAD to understand what the calculator was doing... the underlying math that is going on.
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I wonder if you can rig a cash register to short change the customer... by a very small amount... like 3 cents. How many customers would notice? My guess ifs that both clerk and customer take whatever the register tells them, as true.

you ever been to a grocery store on a saturday morning? PLENTY of people, I will call them village elders, would notice

F5AgainstOne

Adding new content to this 10c "Beta" site = hard... so, get rid of it .

FrankieG

Making high school easier is not helping the future.. Kids need to be pushed to learn. If you let them take the easy road, they will..

I took up to Calculus 2 before I graduated high school. Algebra was my first math class in high school. What aould the kids learn if they stopped learning math after middle school?! Nobody would know how to figure out real life problems...

Some people really live in their own world and dont understand the implicationsof their beliefs... :fp:

MotoDC

mikepegg44 wrote:

hedonist wrote:

I don't disagree, Mike - the plumber comment was regarding my support of vocational schools.

Math IS useful in many realms of life, as you mentioned above and as others have pointed out.

Plus, I just find a beauty in it...in its absoluteness, its truth.

I didn't take it that way, just wanted to point out that, as a former new construction plumber, it wasn't just showing up and connecting pipes!!!

"It's all pipes! What's the difference?!"

( in case you don't get it )

gimmesometruth27

Cosmo wrote:

Jeanwah wrote:

Do we really want to dumb our kids down like this by even suggesting eliminating basic math courses? It's embarrassing.

I think it's bad enough they're eliminating cursive writing, all of our kids won't be able to read cursive let alone write it...

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I wonder when Websters going to enter LOL, BFF, IDK and other acronymns to the dictionary?

i also wonder when the urban dictionary will supercede webster's as the dictionary of record...

gimmesometruth27

chadwick

horse shit...

algebra stays. it is time kids & adults buckeled down & studied. i never had algebra in high school. i was in special classes for kids that have issues. but in college i had algebra for 2 years straight. every quarter i took a math class. it was a frickin hoot. i studied algebra every single day sometimes for six or more hrs, i'm sure of it. i was constantly at the math tutor table, i had moved in on those math geeks and fell in love with difficult math.

if i can mustar up B's & C's i know for a fact others can do the same.

studying all that math plus working @ the fish hatchery and studying my environmental sciences programs... it aint fucking simple. no one ever said life was a walk in the park. it takes hard work and never giving up on what your dreams are.

never ever give in. never ever give up. that shit is instilled into me like nobodies business.