College had nothing to do with this, at all.
Welders and machinists can design and fabricate damn near anything that doesn't need to go into orbit.
Posted on 07/21/2017 1:08:31 PM PDT by detective
I haves to ax... what’s about inglish?
That is a great great book!
Even my math-phobic wife liked it and thanks to that book she came away with a smidgeon of an understanding as to why I love math.
Would that be an Amazon parrot or and African Grey?
You gots a blunt, I gots a blunt. Dat make two blunts.
Who need mo maffs un dat?
Let’s not get CRAZY now. Someone might break a nail, stub a toe, get their feelings hurt.../s
Damn shame too. They don’t teach what you NEED in life (economics [checkbook, mortgages, taxes, etc.]) and those they DO teach are ‘electives’ (metal\wood shop, home improvement, etc.). Good to have (and, IMO, everyone should know BASICS w/ cars/home/tools), but not ‘core’ life classes.
Vocational even still around??
Yes. They have.
Only for the "on level" classes. My kids took algebra in 7th grade.
Least, 20+yrs. ago, you were spot on the $$. Guides, not actual mathematicians, ‘teachers’ instead of biz people, chemists, etc.
Outside of one or two, it was ‘had a problem, I’ll go over the process(es)...the SAME way’. Rarely could they adjust their thinking/style to present in another fashion that *might* have turned the bulb on in the student.
Luckily for me, I had one like that for Algebra. Switched tactics and it clicked.
Unfort., that’s not how THEY are taught and it filters down to the student level as well.
My cursive is lost, partly due to a hand industry. But even before then, I did more lettering due to working on the board.
College had nothing to do with this, at all.
Welders and machinists can design and fabricate damn near anything that doesn't need to go into orbit.
Idiocracy coming true.
And I guess you never 'needed' those lost opportunities due to math illiteracy.
1+1+1+1 ...
0+0+0+0 ...
If things exist, but we are unaware they exist, then they do not exist.
Exist = Not Exist
Folks told me they never needed to read either.
Buckwheat’s mule’s name was Algebra.
Any branch of mathematics which uses letters — meaning the little snowflakes have to know the alphabet before they can do math - - is of course highly racist. Especially if it is the letters of the Latin (European) alphabet being used in math. How oh how are little black and Hispanic children ever to get their minds past conquest and enslavement?
Now stop asking questions and get back to work, you need to support their indigenously generated and University - approved family structures while they are all in therapy recovering from the trauma imposed by your ancestors. They’ll call when they have recovered. Maybe around the time your grandkids are saving for their first house.
“They agreed to pass me with a D- if we agreed that I’d never take math again. I’ll be 75 next week and to date, I’ve never needed it.”
Requiring algebra and other higher math is simply weeding out the dummies in college. Who wants a surgeon working on them who is too dumb to understand basic algebra? For what it’s worth, I never could do algebra, either.
Have standards dropped that much in 25 years? Amazing.
I think there are two currents in education. There is the inclusive current, dumbing everything down.
Then there is the ultra-competitive current, encouraging chess lessons in first grade and Gifted and Talented students to take high school classes in middle school.
Our kids are “swimming” in the competitive current. If you didn’t start out there, the kids with the “tiger” parents are miles ahead of you by the time you are in middle school. They just have that much more vocabulary and experience.
Our son will be taking calculus in 11th grade in a public school in California, this Fall. Our district is in a zone of “aspiring” families and the pressure is on the principals to prepare the top kids for admittance to the UC system and the Ivies, and the “other kids” can start their careers with a good range of skills classes at the vocational center.
However, the school districts who don’t prepare their children well may as well face the fact that the number of families who will be able to pay taxes to support their salaries and budgets will fall short, when these kids are adults.
I feel very sorry for the kids who are poorly served. Go Betsy DeVos!
Lots of trades will always be needed. Car mechanics, barbers, hairdressers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, landscapers, welders, etc.
Just like they pushed them thru elementary middle and high school., but they dont have to worry they have affirmative action and will get where they have to go by the color of thier skin
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