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How Math Was Taught in Schools in 1950 versus 2015
http://thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Math_1950_versus_2015_b.jpg ^ | Steve Straub

Posted on 11/27/2015 10:34:12 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com

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1 posted on 11/27/2015 10:34:12 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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2 posted on 11/27/2015 10:35:35 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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I've had the same thing happen...more than once. And these were 16 and 20 year olds.

We learned how to make change because we played store as children with our little red cash register....c. 1950

3 posted on 11/27/2015 10:41:47 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

In the 1950s, we were taught that 1 & 2 came before 4, 5 & 6.


4 posted on 11/27/2015 10:43:48 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Stan has 4 nickles, 3 pennies, and 2 quarters. If apples are $1 per pound and oranges are $2 per pound, assuming each orange weighs 4 ounces and each apple weights 6 ounces, how racist is Stan?


5 posted on 11/27/2015 10:46:12 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I have an ancient (1920-ish) American Correspondence Schools book for tradesman’s math. It’s written for about an eighth-grade level education, and is amazingly comprehensive. First math book I ever saw that showed how to crunch a square root by hand.


6 posted on 11/27/2015 10:47:07 AM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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Here’s my story from last weekend at a football game concession stand at my college alma mater. The order for three sandwiches and three coffees for my wife, my son and me came to an even $31. I handed the kid two twenties and a single - $41. He handed me back the single and wanted to give me a bunch of ones. I told him the change was just $10, give me two fives or a ten. He almost vapor-locked but recovered to get the change right.

Here’s the kicker: the stand was being run by the local high school band as a fund-raiser so the kid is no dummy. As I pointed out to my son, a band member through high school and college, the kid could be told that he was going to march 8 steps per 5 yards at 135 beats per minute and the music being played was in 6/8 time and he wouldn’t have a problem with doing any of that but math in his head just stumped him. It’s for the reason your illustration shows.


7 posted on 11/27/2015 10:53:54 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I struggled though math in high school because I hated it. Nearly fifty years later I’m struggling through Tom Apostol’s “Calculus” because I love it.

Mathematics is axiomatic that God is real.


8 posted on 11/27/2015 10:55:14 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Sacajaweau

I have had them give me no change at all telling me the change is insignificant especially if it is just pennies or have them give me a quarter instead of 18 cents. I tell them that it is pennies on the burger that pays their wages, that a penny to a fraction of a penny profit on Walmart items earns them billions a year, that if they could come up with a way for McDonald’s to save a penny or two per item they sell they would be in the corporate office instead of the counter, that the pennies in the donation jar in part fund the Ronald McDonald House. Still, they do not get it.


9 posted on 11/27/2015 10:56:33 AM PST by rey
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To: onedoug

I never struggled with math, but I hated high school math because high school math teachers were incompetent, and university level math is taught by TA’s who are not competent in English, especially at the higher priced universities.


10 posted on 11/27/2015 11:08:28 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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To: M1903A1

Square root by hand:

https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads//HTML/squareRoot.html

I like it. I tried Newton-Raphson methods, or successive approximation, but this is a direct method.


11 posted on 11/27/2015 11:14:06 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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bad link. :(


12 posted on 11/27/2015 11:19:06 AM PST by Rodamala
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I taught Calculus from Apostle back in 1971. Not an easy text.

That said, calc is a beautiful, powerful thing.


13 posted on 11/27/2015 11:23:10 AM PST by Boojum
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To: Rodamala

Worked for me. Just clicked it.

Try again:

https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads//HTML/squareRoot.html


14 posted on 11/27/2015 11:24:45 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
I have a kid in the upper part of public elementary school. The thing about the preservation of the woodlands is not true right now if it ever was, at least in my state which is not especially conservative. I have looked at the math book being used and the homework assigned and it actually seems pretty good. Most people who went through all of elementary school in the 90's are 27-31 now.

The thing about being confused about making change is true, but I have seen that with all ages. I often try to make my change come out to a round number and this sometimes confuses people. But I haven't noticed that this is happening more lately.

15 posted on 11/27/2015 11:37:00 AM PST by wideminded
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
It doesn't end with math.


16 posted on 11/27/2015 11:41:23 AM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
won't work on my phone:

...but I looked online and see a long division type method that groups numbers by 2 places, involves using perfect squares and has an interesting way of multiplying the in-process quotient by 2 before subtracting for a remainder to calculate the next digit. I assume that is the method you may be linking to.

17 posted on 11/27/2015 11:44:31 AM PST by Rodamala
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LOL


18 posted on 11/27/2015 11:45:51 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: T-Bird45
True story... I heard this typical South Philly resident caller on the sports-talk radio station in Philly during the mid 90s:

"Yeah, so I went to the Vet for the game last Sunday. I bought a hundred Dollars of beer there, AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET A BUZZ!!!"

19 posted on 11/27/2015 11:50:34 AM PST by Rodamala
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Democrats THRIVE on the stupid and love teaching them LIES !
20 posted on 11/27/2015 11:53:13 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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