Common Core math question is Algebra!!!! *gasp*
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Yes I'm not saying that was a better way to teach it, just that algebra isn't too hard for little kids unless you tell them it will be too hard and never let them try.
The last two math curricula have slipped in "algebra" early on... which has slain the bogeyman for my two oldest.
However, it did add another year of "oh good grief another year of boring math where we don't anything new" for the oldest when she got to Algebra I.
Theoretically the current curriculum is supposed to integrate the math with the topics covered in other subjects - which makes fabulous sense, and shouldn't require anybody to create a Curriculum™
Otherwise, absolutely ridiculous - youngest is still adding 8 + 7 by getting to twenty and subtracting 2x2 and then subtracting 1 more. Which he can do in his head... but how he keeps track, I'll never know.
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bloody is a naughty word now?
Also holy shit :words:
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bloody is a naughty word now?
It's informal and impolite, at least. Wouldn't class it as a genuinely bad word though; I mean, it's not quite in the same league as, say, titwank…
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In the sense that it's not gibberish?
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That too
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I mean you brits, to use the correct phrase, take the piss out of each other all the time, so I assume your language requirements are rather relaxed.
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I mean you brits, to use the correct phrase, take the piss out of each other all the time, so I assume your language requirements are rather relaxed.
In an informal setting, that is true. In a professional setting, not so much ;)
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bloody is a naughty word now?
Hasn't it always been? I mean it's not a really bad swearword, but it's not something you'd say in front of your grandmother.
Well, I suppose that depends on your grandmother...
I just have this aversion to swearing in text. I'll say the words, at need, but somehow writing them down makes me uncomfortable.Also holy shit :words:
Yes, and if you put them together you can have sentences. We will cover paragraphs next lesson.I assume you mean, too many of them, or something? It just amused me...
I mean you brits, to use the correct phrase, take the piss out of each other all the time, so I assume your language requirements are rather relaxed.
I wouldn't say 'take the piss' in front of my grandmother either. Take the mick, maybe.
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TIL WTDWTF is a professional setting :P
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Yeah, you see, there's all these nice emotes that exist but we don't have, like :words: which is just a smiley jabbering on.
mick
I have no idea what this is
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That doesn't explain what mick is and if you are going to say mick == piss then that makes absolutely no sense.
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I have no idea what this is
Same as it was [url=http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-indianapolis-internal-server-error-status-and-sports-es-car-go-in-garlic-butter-thread/1673/12622?u=carrievs]last time it came up[/url].
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mick
is short formickey
in this context. And no, it doesn't meanpiss
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I think, though I may be wrong, the origin of the phrasetaking the mickey
may have something to do withMickey Mouse
being slang for something that is (considered) a joke.Or, as @CarrieVS said in the other thread, it's Cockney rhyming slang.
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Hasn't it always been? I mean it's not a really bad swearword, but it's not something you'd say in front of your grandmother.
I don't think it has nearly the connotations in America that it does in the UK.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I don't think it has nearly the connotations in America that it does in the UK.
It is a peculiarly British slang term
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Yes. Over here it has all the shocking impact of darn. And the person is probably trying to be humorous by using something everyone knows it British.
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Over here it has all the shocking impact of darn.
Over here, bloomin' is to bloody as darn is to damn.
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Over here, bloomin' is to bloody as darn is to damn.
Bloomin' is an onion based appetizer at a faux Australian restaurant over here.
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Bloomin' is an onion based appetizer at a faux Australian restaurant over here.
…and now I finally get that Robot Chicken joke!
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In the context of a bowdlerisation for bloody, rather than some form of the verb to bloom, it's pronounced differently, the oo is as in book, not boot.
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MST3k 1007 - Track of the Moon Beast – 1:35:06
— analogkid01"You onion blossomed a bowling ball... a caulking gun..."
"You blossomed and fried my head?" "Oh, lighten up. You didn't even miss it."
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Thought someone was mucking about with the status thread title again for a bit.
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Yeah, you see, there's all these nice emotes that exist but we don't have, like :words: which is just a smiley jabbering on.
Have you tried or or ?
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insufficient
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not something you'd say in front of your grandmother
"I don't think you'll like this film, Granny. It's a bit bloody"
Actually, my Grandma is the first person I remember saying "bloody". It's by far the most serious swear word she ever uses
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"I don't think you'll like this film, Granny. It's a bit bloody"
Well yes. And I also may have said bitch to my grandma in the past, when talking about her dog, which was of the female persuasion.
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I did algebra at that level for fun at the age of four. Although only when I was sufficiently bored for something so un-challenging to appear fun.
Not everybody is equivalent. Your anecdote does not necessarily reflect on how well most children will do.
If kids are struggling with 1 + x = 10 more than the same kids would with 1 + 9 = x, then it's being taught in a really crappy way.
I don't think so. First the kids need a solid arithmetic foundation. My oldest could handle it, but then we started teaching her basic arithmetic when she was 3. Our middle one's almost to the point where she can do that, but again, we started her on basic arithmetic when she was young.
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First the kids need a solid arithmetic foundation.
If that's what you call being able to count. If they can count they can do that. Because all you need to be able to do is count.
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if you are going to say mick == piss then that makes absolutely no sense.
Mick is short for micturation, the technical term for pissing. Don't they teach you anything?
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If I have kids I'm going to homeschool them in maths at least through primary school, and send them to school with a note that I don't want them to take part in maths lessons for ideological reasons.
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"Mathematical atheist"? Really? I object! The proper term should have been "Mathematical sceptic"!
Yes, I'm being a pendant here. I did get a chuckle anyway.
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Then my job here is done.
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My religion is silent on the subject of teaching kids maths.
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I was doing my maths degree while my sister was in early Secondary school. I used to teach her the interesting bits about number theory and stuff while her teachers were doing basic algebra.
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@boomzilla said in Common Core math question is Algebra!!!! *gasp*:
Because it's not about net gains.
It's about equalizing the kids that are good in math with the kids that aren't good.
And we all know that equalization means worst common denominator.
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@xaade said in Common Core math question is Algebra!!!! *gasp*:
And we all know that equalization means worst common denominator.
Well, only those of us who are good at math.
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@gąska said in Common Core math question is Algebra!!!! *gasp*:
@xaade said in Common Core math question is Algebra!!!! *gasp*:
And we all know that equalization means worst common denominator.
Well, only those of us who are good at math.
I just knew that was coming.
Fair enough, I set myself up for that one.
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@masonwheeler Base 8? Maybe they are teaching them *NIX persmissions!
Then again, who the fuck sets their files to
011100010
permissions?I prefer
000000111
myself.
Filed under: Permission to be killed
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@masonwheeler silliness aside, that's exactly how substraction has always been done in Poland at least since 1940s. 3 is larger than 2 so you borrow 1 from 4, leaving only 3 there. Then you do 12-3 and move on. It's a lot more writing than this "carry the one" thing, but I'd argue it's much more intuitive, especially if your audience isn't familiar with negative numbers (and 1st graders aren't familiar with negative numbers).
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@gąska I believe Tom Lehrer came up with that song in the 1960s. It's not particularly new these days, it's just amusing seeing the way he describes it.
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@masonwheeler everything is amusing when you make it your goal to ridicule the thing.
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@createdtodislikethis said in Common Core math question is Algebra!!!! *gasp*:
You intrigued me. How do you get 10 from 4 and 5?
You add 1 to 4, making 5. Add 5 + 5 to get 10, and then you subtract the 1 you added in the beginning to get 9.
So now you know 4 + 5 = 9.
To bad you had to learn algebra without realizing it.