Hey you, dey shud replase da algebras wit rap, yo. And Obamafoam, numsayn'.
And Nifty Finger Tricks 101.
Posted on 07/22/2017 5:15:30 PM PDT by grundle
Academic Darwinism is necessary.
I make a 6 figure income...never used it on 23 years on the job.
SJW SCHEDULE
TODAY:
Demand that schools drop algebra as a graduation requirement because it’s too difficult for blacks.
TOMORROW:
Major protest against the dot.com and Silicon Valley employers who bring in Asians to fill high paying jobs they should be giving to blacks.
Bump.
Exactly
40 yrs ago, we used “y = mx + what” as part of a mental status exam.
“Oh, tempora; oh, mores.”
Our public schools are generating entitled and self esteemed graduates who are not capable of higher learning yet feel that they are.
Americans and legal immigrants of Asian descent seem to do pretty well in algebra (except me). Don’t they count as minorities?
GPA...lol.
I went golfing today and had golf rules on the brain.
I flunked Latin in high school but that looks a bit familiar.
Do you buy lottery tickets? Thought so.
Do you keep balances on credit cards?
If you are too lazy to do math, how can you balance a checkbook, compute interest charges, or a host of other everyday tasks? It seems to me that you are at the mercy of artful and designing people.
Hey you, dey shud replase da algebras wit rap, yo. And Obamafoam, numsayn'.
And Nifty Finger Tricks 101.
Chinese, Indians, Japanese and many other excel at math... lets me honest here, we are talking about poor inner city blacks that were passed through to the next grade, every grade.
I use math every day, but I am an applied mathematician. I have worked for lawyers, doctors, engineers, biologists, chemists, and physicists. I see math everywhere and everyday. Probably 80% of my work is in algebra.
As Asian, I can tell you that algebra is a workout on mind. It helps with your capacity of thinking. When you get higher education like economics and finance, you would need it to understand all kinds of math models
A Navy SEAL is the top .001% of men.
Our (foolish) goal is for 100% of people to go to college.
Your analogy would be valid if people believed 100% of men could be Navy SEALs.
Well, go get yourn li’l self a job that requires it. :)
I had nine years of Latin. Never used it once, or had a job that required it. :)
My claim is that the way algebra is *taught* is wrong and not conducive to students of any form.
We were taught by the Sisters of Notre Dame, that Algebra followed *rules*. If you followed certain formulas, you would always get the right answer.
When my boys [New Math victims] were in middle school, and had Algebra, I told their math teachers They would be using the *nun method* for solving their homework....and when they *showed* their work, their homework was always correct. Teachers confessed their amazement to me. Symmetry. Algebra was fun and survivable. :)
http://themathpage.com/alg/rules-of-algebra.htm#symmetry
How about the minorities who keep failing get dropped?
“You’ll make more in the trades than in any degree program that doesn’t require multiple math and science courses.”
Hmmm, I’m sensing somebody doesn’t understand the real math behind lots of trades. Electricians need to know Ohm’s Law which is pure algebra. Carpenters need to know how to work with the framing square and that’s geometry/Pythagorean theorem. With a little training and a scientific calculator, the same carpenter with his square can lay out a radius.
No math in the trades, huh???? Showing up on a jobsite thinking that you can get by with just your hammer and a strong back will have you run off by lunch.
Old clip, but very funny:
Miss America—should math be taught in school?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBv2CFTSWU
I could solve it 27 years ago while getting my Masters.
Couldn't do it now if my life depended on it.
Of course I could do polar geographic plot (Maneuvering board) approximations in my head while I was driving ships in the Navy. I can still do it on paper but not in my head.
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