Informal poll, When you pull up a thread with multiple pages and you find that the newest post is the top of a new page, do you go back a page and check the last two or three? The person below me doesn't give a rat's a---uhm, sorry, wrong thread.
I go back and check to see what the previous posts were... But then again, I also tend to read the OP and the replies before adding my own $.02 unlike others...
D yes, I usually go at least one page back, but usually: A) if it's a thread I've never been to, I'll try to read or skim the entire thing, or B) if it is a thread I've read or responded to, I try to go back to the last post I read or wrote; or C) if it's more than 4 pages, forget it
The worst invention ever- the basic calculator. Daughter having meltdown over 3 X 7. insists she has to have a calculator. Ugh!
:happy102 My son starts school next week. We've been using an abacus - I'm not sure if it's helping or hurting but it sure is fun!
no... it wouldn't be.. as a math/science teacher it is one of those things that irks me about elementary school. Too many kids come up and can't do the more difficult math because they never learned the basics. Now my daughter is in the same boat. Wish I started flash card drills earlier in the summer; however, I just saw her try to do a division problem and it just set me into math intervention mode. She is 9 and doing fractions, decimals, and percents already but can't multiply/divide without a calculator? ugh... hey! quit pushing higher level math skills on lower elementary school until they can do the basics. No, giving them a calculator doesn't solve the issue. It doesn't count if they can do calculus as a freshman if all they are doing is entering the differential into a calculator. But what do I expect.. they "Master" the atom in 2nd grade.
I was going to make an "i-bacus" joke with gimpshopped iphone, but it turns out, such an app already exists. I think a little part of me died inside just now.
I agree completely. I've actually taught my kids how to play blackjack, for the simple of purpose of learning to add their cards quickly...oh, and I need money
lol as one of those kids who never learned math without a calculator I can tell you it's scary as hell when somebody takes it away. I took a calc class this semester and I had to learn to graph curves without a calculator. It wasn't the formulas that tripped me up, it was second guessing my basic math.
