Posted on 11/10/2019 7:39:16 AM PST by robowombat
If anything, math skills can get a person a better job and overall better life. I can’t figure this out (pardon the pun).
Sooner or later. You have a real test where nonsense don’t fly
SAT. GRE A job application
They won’t hire you and you can scream “ racist “! And they WONT CARE
also. PUNCTUALITY
Already happening everywhere. Employers bemoan the lack and go
H1v
We already are. Seattle is overrun with Indian and Communist Chinese. Maybe they are proposing to teach it the Indian or Communist Chinese way— where cheating and copying is allowed?
I used those calculators too, the TRS 80 had some features that other programmable calculators did not have, like testing a solution and one click back to the equation. I thought of that as a great learning tool.
You are also right about what has been lost. As a math teacher, I felt embarrassed taking my calculator out because I was so slow doing math in my head. I knew others who could do very large problems in their head and get answers that were close enough to be the basis for an engineering trade study.
Funny thing about the early math, after teaching it for 9 years, I could recall how to do every problem and often could recall the “trick” that a student needed to get to the right answer quickly. I cannot do the really hard ones, like you see on youtube, but the SAT test questions are not a problem anymore, and I suspect I could figure out the height of a tree. Students can learn the same things we learned, if asked to do the same problems. The solution is in how math is taught, and how much the teacher knows about the math they are teaching.
When I taught I had several rules regarding phones (that all have cameras and calculators in them) and the high end calculators. I would not allow “assistance devices” in a class that did not need one, and when I tested I made certain that the problems could all be solved without the need of a calculator. In many classes, the equation could be used in lieu of the numerical answer and I always gave credit for equal answers. 1/9 is really the same as 14/126.
However in the advanced computer class, we had to teach how to solve problems with these devices, so of course they were allowed,
The biggest problem I had was the personal camera, I had a test that was given to all students in every math class of the same subject and an enterprising student photographed each page of the test and then emailed her solutions to her friends in classes that had not been tested. The school should have solved this by having several equivalent tests made and not using the tests over in a later class. In the end, we had to zero the score of several students who had missed the same problems as the girl who passed out her answers.
If you take all the young-uns in Calif and Wash out of the employment market because they can’t add or subtract, there will be more jobs for those who do, do math. Not much of a downside.
But the bottom line is, the socialists are trying to drive our American children crazy with endless hate-white-people crap. So they are paralyzed in fear and incapable of defending themselves, much less others, from an outside attack. From people who do know math. And which sex they are. And what day of the week it is. And there is a huge downside to that.
when I returned to school my first work study job was assisting students with learning disabilities in the math and reading labs. Up until that time I had assumed that our minds all worked in basically the same way. But I discovered immediately while tutoring that this was not the case.
Within a short time a work study job opened up at the computer lab at the business center which was more in line with my interests, but what I learned trying to help people with learning disabilities was helpful to me there as well.
I had taken the firefighter civil service test twice before, but each time there were around 5000 test takers for about 30 jobs over three years. At that time half the jobs were set aside for affirmative action and veterans got a several point advantage, so it was a fairly futile exercise. But the format of the written test was changed that year to make it less “discriminatory” toward women and minorities. It was very similar to an SAT which my year back in school had sharpened me up for. So my education was cut short once again when I was hired by the fire department after getting a near perfect score.
I would have to say that what I learned assisting other students in my work study jobs was actually more valuable in my career as a fire officer than what I learned in the classroom. I also gained a healthy respect for the challenges that teachers face... especially math teachers. So thank you for your patience and service to your community.
You also learned that the best way to learn is to teach, But this only works when you understand what your are teaching. Good story. Congrats on making the grade.
I agree with you.
I worked as an engineer in aerospace and as a teacher and coach. The teaching job was far more enjoyable but at the same time not in line with my political beliefs. If and when they find out that you support the President, even if your teaching is perfect — and like everyone else, I made mistakes.
As they say, do what you love and you will not have to go to work at all. I only quit when my health forced me to.
Good FReeping with you. KC
Good Lord. I’d heard about them saying math was racist, now they’re saying that teaching math is racist?
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