Common Core math question is Algebra!!!! *gasp*
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So, now try "187 + 25"
10111011 & 00011001 = 00011001 10111011 ^ 00011001 = 10100010 00011001 << 1 = 00110010 10100010 & 00110010 = 00100010 10100010 ^ 00110010 = 10010000 00100010 << 1 = 01000100 10010000 & 01000100 = 00000000 10010000 ^ 01000100 = 11010100 212Any questions?
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You don't start teaching derivatives by coming into class and saying, "The derivative of x2 is 2xdx, and don't ask why."
I think my high school Calculus class mumble years ago more or less did that. I remember sitting in my first college Calculus class wondering, "Why are they teaching all this delta and epsilon stuff when there's a simple formula?" They were, of course, teaching us why the formula is what it is, which I hadn't learned in high school. At the time, as a teenager, I didn't see the usefulness in that.
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They taught both in my high school Calculus class. Maybe I just happened to get a good teacher.
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Laws they encourage people not to read. Or even can hide from people reading them.
Even just them reading the laws before they vote on them would be an improvement. “But we have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what’s in it....”
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You get called upon, do a year (or however long), get paid for your effort and get back to your job when done....
Now flame away while I go off not caring about you explaining to me how stupid my idea was.Not a stupid idea. AIUI, except for the bit about being called up, this is more or less what the founding fathers, at least some of them, had in mind. Someone successful enough to be able to afford to do so takes a few years out of their career to take a thankless and relatively low-paying job serving the public, then resumes their career. Unfortunately, over the last couple of centuries, that thankless, low-paying job has gradually become sufficiently high-paying and powerful to become a career in and of itself, and few people leave it voluntarily.
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They taught both in my high school Calculus class.
Maybe they did in mine, too, and I've just forgotten, but there was definitely much more emphasis on why in college. My high school Calculus class was more focused on using derivatives and integrals to calculate useful things like ballistic trajectories and areas under curves, with some explanation of why; the first semester of college was all about why, and less about practical uses.
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I don't literally see color, but I do associate it.
So for me, I think of 1, and think of yellow.Black 0
Brown 1
Red 2
Orange 3
Yellow 4
Green 5
Blue 6
Violet 7
Gray 8
White 9I think of...
0 - Black
1 - Blue
2 - Green
3 - Cyan
4 - Red
5 - Magenta
6 - Brown
7 - Light Gray
8 - Dark Gray
9 - Bright Blue
10 - Bright Green
11 - Bright Cyan
12 - Bright Red
13 - Bright Magenta
14 - Yellow
15 - WhiteThat's right, default EGA palette, motherfuckers.
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That's right, default EGA palette, motherfuckers.
Filed under: Words I never thought I would read. Ever.
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0 - Black1 - Blue2 - Green3 - Cyan4 - Red5 - Magenta6 - Brown7 - Light Gray8 - Dark Gray9 - Bright Blue10 - Bright Green11 - Bright Cyan12 - Bright Red13 - Bright Magenta14 - Yellow15 - White
The Dwarf Fortress color palette?
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7 - Light Gray
8 - Dark GrayYou have these two wrong. 7 is dark white and 8 is light black.
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Filed under: the fundamental problem with most political systems is that they're made of people.
Let's make sentient machines, then they can rule us. Problem solved.
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As I said, never gonna happen, but I can invent shit and act smart about it, yes?
And we can point out how batshit insane the plan is?
You'd need some way to determine who's good before you put them up to manage the whole damn country. Picking people out at random has a 99% likelihood of ending up as a total moron being the prime minister, since 99% of the population are total morons [citation needed].
The problem is always "how to determine who's competent, and who's going to determine that". "Everyone", as in democracy, is admittedly a shitty solution, but it works so far. "A random number generator" is not gonna improve that.
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"Everyone", as in democracy, is admittedly a shitty solution, but it works so far.
Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time;
[[citation]](https://richardlangworth.com/democracy-is-the-worst-system)
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At the time, as a teenager, I didn't see the usefulness in that.
I took Calculus 3 times in college, never got better than a C, and I still don't see the usefulness in anything they taught. Mainly because none of the awful profs actually spend a single millisecond talking about real-world applications.
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Black 0
White 1
Red 2
Cyan 3
Violet 4
Green 5
Blue 6
Yellow 7
Orange 8
Brown 9
Lightred 10
Grey 1 11
Grey 2 12
Lightgreen 13
Lightblue 14
Grey 3 15
Pasted from Excel so you get like 47 copies of it, due to this HIGH QUALITY FORUM PRODUCT!
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Nah...
0 - Black (Line at top and right sides))
1 - White (Letter E)
2 - Red (Pound symbol)
3 - Cyan (Lower left half filled)
4 - Violet (Kirby dots on left side)
5 - Green (Arrow pointing up)
6 - Blue (Arrow pointing left)
7 - Yellow (Letter Pi)
8 - Orange (Spade symbol)
9 - Brown (Top left quarter of a circle)
10 - Light Red (Big X)
11 - Dark Grey (Complete circle)
12 - Medium Grey (Club symbol)
13 - Light Green (Vertical line near right side)
14 - Light Blue (Diamond symbol)
15 - Light Grey (Large cross)Of course if you press C= and Shift at the same time, everything changes and then you're on your own.
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“But we have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what’s in it....”
TRWTF is that she wasn't laughed out of Congress for saying that.
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I'm not going to say which game it was, but I recently played a game that touched that concept and it didn't have a happy ending.
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I'm not going to say which game it was, but I recently played a game that touched that concept and it didn't have a happy ending.
So you won?
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I'm not quite sure. It played a cutscene and put me back at the main menu and when I loaded the save again it was before that last bit.
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Maybe you got the Bad End?
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some games just have a savepoint there so you can easily see the different outcomes of tyour last choice (see DeusEx HR)
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I doubt it. The narration called me "selfless", so I assume I did the "right" thing.
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No, this is "Common Core". Supposedly, they are teaching kids the "shortcuts" instead of just teaching them arithmetic facts. The idea is that the kids first figure out how to get to the next multiple of ten, then add everything together because it's "easier".
260 more posts!! I'm not hacking through all that, so...
pre-apologies if this has been addressed and you all have moved on.
Yep. This looks like how my kids are being taught math under common core. To be fair it pre-dates common core, but it does seem worse now.
They never ever mastered their "times tables" (as we called them).
My youngest is super-literal, so he still goes through all the intermediate steps - 2x9 is 2x10=20-2=18. He's fairly accurate, but oh so slow.
I hoped he would just get faster with repetition, but now they're doing long division, and you just have to be able to do work through the possible multipliers a lot faster.
So - back to good old multiplication flash cards - it is agony to listen to him work through all these weird steps...
6x8 is is...it's just 48! EVERY TIME! Memorize it, please...
He's getting better with practice at least.
"I now return you to other people's rants - thank you for your time."
EDIT: added point that kids are currently under common-core, although this topic mostly applies only to my youngest.
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I doubt it. The narration called me "selfless", so I assume I did the "right" thing.
Hmm were you playing Fallout 3, but without the Broken Steel expansion pack which "fixes" the ending?
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I was playing this game, which I believe shouldn't have that problem. But it does, so I dunno what happened.
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So you went to the [spoiler]water-uh-place-i-can't remember-the-name-of, where your dad dies, and did the password thing and then just dropped dead[/spoiler] and that was game over? You didn't [spoiler]wake up back in the Pentagon[/spoiler] with a few more levels to go?
More to the point, did you level-cap at 20 or 30?
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and that was game over?
Well, there was a slideshow with a narrator, and he said "war. war never changes." like he did at the beginning and then it went to the main menu.
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TRWTF is that she wasn't laughed out of Congress for saying that.
To be fair (and of all the people to whom I'd like to be fair, Nancy Pelosi is pretty damn near the bottom of my list), the article I read put that in a context in which it makes some sense. (Whether she actually meant it within that context, or whether she wrapped the context around it later to defend herself is a question to which I don't know the answer.)
At the time she said that, the House had passed a version of the bill, but the Senate hadn't yet passed anything. What she (claims to have) meant was that there was no way to know what would come out of the Conference Committee to resolve the differences between the House and Senate versions until the Senate actually sent them a version to resolve.
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Yeah, Broken Steel ain't installed. I think you can install it and then play your last save again and it'll magically fix everything, but hey, I'm not a Bethesda support tech, so...
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How'd I manage to install the game without most of its content?
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What she (claims to have) meant
Yeah, about the only way she's correct is by accident.
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How'd I manage to install the game without most of its content?
You didn't play many Bethesda games, have you?
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I still don't see the usefulness in anything they taught.
Well, it was not only useful but absolutely necessary in getting an EE degree. I used it a lot in subsequent classes. Hardly ever since I've gotten out of school, though, because I specialized in digital stuff. If I'd done analog, or even DSP, I'd use it.
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This came on Pandora and I LOL'd:
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I object to his objections to base 8! I use base 8 arithmetic a lot when
chmoding stuff. You have to take away those write bits and all that gu...chmod -wOh. Right. Carry on.
Filed under: Seriously though, working in other bases can be useful, But not in first grade!
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And if I had been in an EE degree program, maybe it would have been fucking useful!
But I wasn't and it wasn't.
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But I wasn't and it wasn't.
It depends on exactly what sort of programming you're doing. Nearly anything even vaguely related to science will probably end up touching on calculus, as will other things like writing a physics engine for a game, or working at the sharper end of finance.
Making data entry and reporting applications… won't need much math at all.
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It depends on exactly what sort of programming you're doing.
THIS IS PRETTY MUCH MY EXACT Argume-- oh fuck it.
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Bear in mind that Lehrer did "New Math" in 1965. So when he says:
if you're under 35 or went to a private school, you say seven from three is six, but if you're over 35 and went to a public school, you say eight from four is six
You have to change under/over 35 to read under/over 85.
Kudos to Professor L, though, for changing the conjunction on the conditions in accordance with de Morgan's law....
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And if I had been in an EE degree program, maybe it would have been fucking useful!
But I wasn't and it wasn't.
So you wanted me to infer that you meant ...
I still don't see the usefulness to me in anything they taught.
I see...
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working in other bases can be useful
Obviously.
But not in first grade!
I don't remember when my dad started teaching me about other bases. Not first grade; maybe fourth, or thereabouts. Definitely years ahead of my peers. I vaguely recall doing some homework in non-decimal bases, because I could; I think I was a bit of a challenge to my teachers.
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working at the sharper end of finance
That sounds painful.
writing a physics engine for a game
I think there's a smidgen of calculus under the hood of KSP, even if the player doesn't need to know it.
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I don't remember when my dad started teaching me about other bases. Not first grade; maybe fourth, or thereabouts. Definitely years ahead of my peers. I vaguely recall doing some homework in non-decimal bases, because I could; I think I was a bit of a challenge to my teachers.
You're on TDWTF. You're weird :P
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Filed under: Words I never thought I would read. Ever.
You'd be surprised what even a short stay on /g/ can do to one's psyche.
"EMM386.EXE, motherfucker, do you use it?"
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if you're under 35 or went to a private school, you say seven from three is six, but if you're over 35 and went to a public school, you say eight from four is six
Seven from three is -4, eight from four is -4. I have no idea how you'd get 6 from either of those
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Seven from three is -4, eight from four is -4. I have no idea how you'd get 6 from either of those
Work in the mod 10 domain.
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Seven from three is -4, eight from four is -4. I have no idea how you'd get 6 from either of those
It's what you might call implicit borrowing. It's what I'd call it, anyways.
What's interesting to me is that the old vs new of that song (from 1965, as @da_Doctah mentioned...I was aware of the time frame, but didn't bother mentioning it) are different but still pretty comparable. Not at all like the difference of Common Core vs either of those methods.
Though I'm sure CC would be better as a Tom Lehrer song than something anyone actually tried to teach kids.
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I don't remember when my dad started teaching me about other bases. Not first grade; maybe fourth, or thereabouts.
Somewhere around fourth non-decimal bases were part of our studies.
I don't know if they thought this was the best way for to understand arithmetic.
Or were they thinking about computer-literacy but thought that everybody would need to use Octal.
They didn't teach Hexadecimal, but if I recall, we did do some stuff with a small non-numeric "alphabet"[1] with an ordering..
[1] by analogy, is that an "unidue"... ?
I'm never sure about this stuff - it's all Greek to me.
