Assuming this question reflects the type of mathematics questions posed to
fourth graders, it raises a pertinent query: what is the pedagogical value
of such mathematical questions for 9- or 10-year-old students?
Living in a world where it is a rarity for a cashier to perform basic
mental arithmet
The following is hard to believe but true.
Last weekend, I was in line at Walgreens. The older woman in front of me gave
the cashier a $20 bill for a $13.54 purchase. The young cashier was completely
unable to figure out the correct change. After a couple of failed tries, the
older woman tried
No. I interact with the bullshit generators enough at work. I don't feel the
need to do so in my personal life, as well. But I appreciate the invitation.
On 8/7/24 19:25, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
H! I wonder how Glenn would react to our requesting him to play this game.
I hate it because i
Humans are fast learners. We learn what our environments demand we learn,
within some variation, of course. In my part time job slinging beer, we don't
expect employees to be able to subtract numbers like 13.54 from 20. The Point
of Sale (PoS, funnily also an initialism for another common phras
By the way, my daughter's title in the Secretary of Public Education Office
is Financial Technician. I can multiply two 2 digit numbers mentally
pretty fast.
Frank
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On Thu, Aug 8, 2024, 7:11 AM Edward Angel
On 8/6/24 12:09 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
Re self-identification. We adopted our daughter in Mexico and moved
from Pittsburgh to Santa Fe about a year later. When she came home
after her first day of kindergarten at E. J. Martinez I asked her if
there were other Hispanic kids in her class. S
On Thu, Aug 8, 2024, 7:44 AM glen wrote:
> No. I interact with the bullshit generators enough at work. I don't feel
> the need to do so in my personal life, as well. But I appreciate the
> invitation.
>
Glen, yes "bullshit generators" can be slightly annoying at times ;-p
Friam is a space to i
Glen, are you avail to join vFriam today near the end at 1130a MDT / 1030
your time?
https://bit.ly/virtualfriam
Interactive voice channel preferred.
On Thu, Aug 8, 2024, 10:09 AM glen wrote:
> Maybe. I'm not convinced. Profundity is THE breeding ground for bullshit.
> And "wisdom" is not far
On 8/7/24 9:43 AM, glen wrote:
Why? Why would you burn that energy to perform such a task?
because as with all technology for all of time,
"because we can"
I agree/realize that in our rush to embrace "the next cool thing" it
is easy to get carried away... like with the
Will there be (more) cliff diving? Metaphorically of course.
We'll be at lunch today at Casa Bonita.
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By the way, my daughter's title in the Secretary of Public Education
Office is Financial Technician. I can multiply two 2 digit numbers
mentally pretty fast.
Frank
I so know the massive slowdown when I go from 2-3 digits (even 2x3)
multiplication... it goes from something mostly intuitive
Maybe. I'm not convinced. Profundity is THE breeding ground for bullshit.
I'm more inclined (in the context of my own profundity or perhaps more
aptly prolificness or prolixity) to suggest that it is more of a mask
(and therefore enabler?) of bullshit than a breeding ground. Could be a
fine h
I tend to (mildly?) dismiss the "kids these days" self-identification as
a variant on what I remember back when I was one... and my experience
aligns somewhat with your own the the nuance that there was some
holonomic overlap.. Our Jocks sometimes were also Honor's students and
sometimes even
We have spoken of Limbic hijack at the personal level, but haven't
broached an analogy of this with the US, Western World, and Global
"superorganism" which I feel (being a metaphorist) is an apt one.
While I have not identified precisely as liberal or progressive in my
life, I have it seems be
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