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Why Americans Can't Do Arithmetic
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| April 21, 2010
| Bruce Deitrick Price
Posted on 04/23/2010 12:22:15 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
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To: BruceDeitrickPrice
It sounds as though the liberals’, “There Is No Wrong Answer” Math system isn’t working out. LOL!
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:25:23 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Dude! Where's my Constitution!)
To: BruceDeitrickPrice
Thats the truth.
They do not want the kids to learn too quickly, they’d all be out of cushy jobs.
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:25:27 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
To: BruceDeitrickPrice
The “new” math came out for us in the late 60s, early 70s in florida. It’s why I can barely add 2 + 2 and get 5.
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:28:42 PM PDT
by
subterfuge
(BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
To: BruceDeitrickPrice
It would disqualify them from government jobs and those are the only ones being created.
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:32:48 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: subterfuge
“A 3 letter word, J-O-B-S!” - VP Joe Biden
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:35:43 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
To: subterfuge
“It is wonderful to be back in Oregon,” Obama said. “Over the last 15 months, weve traveled to every corner of the United States. Ive now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.” - President Barack Obama
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:36:45 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
To: BruceDeitrickPrice
New Math was mostly the result of dumbed down teachers, who didn’t know HOW to teach.
They wanted a shortcut. A ‘new’ and ‘easier’ way to do math.
Sorry, there is only one way.
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:36:46 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: AmishDude
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:37:07 PM PDT
by
marajade
(Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
To: a fool in paradise
Maybe Biden was misquoted?
Jobs is a FREE-letter word.
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:37:48 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(If you could read my mind ... just count up the felonies!)
To: BruceDeitrickPrice
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:37:58 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: TBP; cardinal4
I did extremely poorly in high school math and was able to weasel my way out of it as an undergraduate in college. I am an arithmetical whiz, however, and at age 67 still regularly beat the cash register in figuring out my change from a $10.
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:38:51 PM PDT
by
Ax
(Us: "Braveheart." Them: "Runaway Bride.")
To: UCANSEE2
Only one way?
Define “one”
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:39:04 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(If you could read my mind ... just count up the felonies!)
To: a fool in paradise
There are three kinds of people: Those who can do math and those who can’t.
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:39:24 PM PDT
by
edge10
(Obama lied, babies died!)
To: BruceDeitrickPrice
A kid educated in the 1930’s to the 8th grade level is smater than 90% of all High School Graduates today when it comes to the Math, History, English, and Science.
Sad to say but true.
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:41:05 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: BruceDeitrickPrice
When I read this, I can’t figure out (no pun intended) whether the problem is Math or English.
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:42:27 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
To: GeronL
“Thats the truth.
They do not want the kids to learn too quickly, theyd all be out of cushy jobs. “
Indeed, those who do have wickedly good math skills usually have to re-process the information in the book to come to our own methods of doing it. We had to perform internal translations of the material in question in order for us to make sense of it. I did the best to help my fellow students but most of them just had glazed over eyes.
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:43:33 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: FlingWingFlyer
But look at the great job new math has done for the economy.
Like seventy-eleventy-kabillion jobs were created or saved just last week.... and 0Care is deficit neutral.
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:44:02 PM PDT
by
Repeat Offender
(While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
To: Freee-dame; maica
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:44:04 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: BruceDeitrickPrice
A few pages later we learn that "Principles of numeration cannot be developed effectively if confusion exists regarding the terms `number' and `numeral.' They are not synonymous. A number is a concept, an abstraction. A numeral is a symbol, a name for a number." Wow. I remember that from the mid 1970s. There was an obsession with the difference between the numerals and numbers, which really wasn't appropriate for 2nd and 3rd graders. Similary, there was waaaaay too much set theory which we spent weeks on, which could be cranked out in a couple of days in high school but little kids just aren't ready for it.
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posted on
04/23/2010 12:44:23 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Obamacare: The 2010 version of the Intolerable Acts.)
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