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Thanks I bookmarked that site and it worked, I was able to read the article.

Let’s just see how much of a blow it is after New York and a couple of more states.

Ah yes, that girl burning her shirt was a pretty good video also. But here's Herman Cain's link that I so agree with. God Bless.

http://www.caintv.com/two-conservative/libertarians

Of course I meant the 2000 election, but I am sure that was obvious.

Interesting, the NYT is reporting also. Their numbers show more votes and less of a percentage.

Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II Rep. 848,330 46.8%
Terry McAuliffe Dem. 841,546 46.4

But only 85% reporting

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/elections/2013/general/virginia/map.html

I am confused. There is a Battleground/Political poll showing Obama ahead by one that is posted on Real Clear Politics. I have not seen this poll anywhere except here and the link provided, I didn't see it on the Terrance site. A Google search didn't turn it up either.

Any insight?

Could GOP male candidates possibly keep such opinions to themselves? Honestly, there is plain stupidity and then there is platinum stupidity. Shut up and talk about the economy and leave all talk of women’s wombs strictly within your immediate families.

This isn’t rocket science.

It seems it is tough enough to some people that it ranks right up there with Rocket Science for some of them.

This Senate seat will probably be lost and what should have been a prime year for Republicans picking up Senate seats will likely be lost.

Maybe the Tea Party folks could do a better job vetting some of these people before supporting them and knocking off candidates who could have won.

I have only great mornings, don’t allow any other kind.

How are you and the rest of the Anti Romney cult doing this fine day?

Funny you should mention that because I posted a comment here about a small part of ARs speech half joking and I got a bunch of personal insults for it (by Romney bots obviously). I am used to this and it doesnt bother me in the least.

Yet the one poster who is driving most of you nuts on this thread does exactly the same thing to those who comment on his pet heroine, personal insults.. So Romney-bots are acting like all the other personality cult types. Bush, Palin, Perry, Paul ....-bots

Ironic justice. The finger points right back

Too ridiculous to even comment much on.

But I would probably rather be accused of the type bots you are referring to that be part of the anti Romney cult or bot as you call it.

Still a cesspool

So you want to only read ideas by those that agree with you, and everyone else disappears poof?

Well I like this place because we don't all have have to think exactly the same. Your idea sounds very sterile and cult-like.

If you are waiting for posters critical of Romney to be zotted then you are in for a long wait.

Figures, no I don't want posters critical of Romney to necessarily be zotted. What I would like from the anti Romney posts is some logic not just insults.

But it isn't going to happen here and you have it wrong as to what is cult like, it is the folks who rush here at every opportunity to bash Romney and who in the long run may help Obama get reelected.

I'm not sure if you fit that, but I suspect you do.

This place has turned into a cesspool because of the cult like actions of those you defend, and likely you also.

I'm sure Ann Romney will know how to dress properly...and I wonder how many will continue to send money to Free Republic if this BS continues..

this always was an enjoyable site to visit and post..something nasty is wrong..

I hope it gets cleaned up

what has happened to the ZOT cat?

It's not going to get cleaned up. This site used to be my go to spot for news and discussion. Now I come here once in awhile, and it doesn't take long to see why I left.

Damn good, way to go Bernie.

The Kahn web site is also being used in tutor centers and math labs at many colleges and as supplementary material in K - 12 schools. And of course many students find their own way there.

The khan academy is a great website. I do agree with teaching alternate methods, but if that means ignoring traditional methods that work for most students then I don't agree.

One Thing that you can, and should, do is teach, or least approve of, alternate methods that will work for students who may not comprehend the traditional method. Or use it in an example that might interest them.

kabumpo, I tried to carry on a civil conversation with you and what you did was say that my response was so lacking that I proved your point.

That's pompous or arrogant, whichever. So I responded by telling you that your were a pompous ass, perhaps arrogant ass would have been better but whatever.

Yes I did not appreciate your curt response to what was legitimate conversation and bluntly told you so. If you don't like that try a more reasonable approach with whoever you might be exchanging with in the future. It won't be me as I recognize people who are arrogant or pompous and for the most part choose not to deal with them.

I might add that along with reading and comprehension comes communication at which you sadly fail.

My wife is a teacher educator. Many of her students headed for elementary schools, “hate” math and/or are “afraid of math”. When they come to her classroom that is. Not so much when they leave. She’s the math specialist in her small department (and the chair too). She changed the requirements so that those headed for middle or high school also must take “teaching elementary math”, so that if, as happens too often, the kids come to them deficient or “hating” or “afraid”, they can figure out what went wrong earlier, and fix it.

She’s only one teacher educator, in a small program. But when I think of how many kids are not exposed to a teacher in elementary school who can’t do, “hates” or “is afraid of” math because of her efforts, plus those who where her elementary students when she was in the public school classrom, the numbers get rather large. Still just a drop in the bucket, but still quite a legacy to have.

I knew a very smart Professor of Math Education who also was blessed with great common sense. As was suggested by someone else in this topic that using every day problems to teach math was a good approach. He had a whole series of labs cutting across K - 12 that were either everyday life situations that you could identify with or also riddles or puzzles that had a math basis for the solution. They tended to get and keep students attention.

However he also had something special he saved for students going into elementary education. He told them that the time in child's life when their mind is most open to math is in the elementary school age. And that sense most elementary teachers did not like math that put a special burden on them to work hard to have make sure students have the opportunity to learn math and that their fear of math did not hinder their students.

I have no idea how many he reached, but it does point out a flaw in our educational system.

For the most part this has been a very good topic and I bookmarked the utube above and also sent it to my daughter who after getting her kids into high school has become certified to teach math and has just gotten a job teaching high school math.

Again, you make my case for me - resorting to the old liberal device of name-caliing when you don’t have an argument. I never said or implied that math shouldn’t be taught. I said that that’s not where the emphasis should be - it needs to be on reading and writing. Call me all the names you want - it won’t make up for the fact that you didn’t learn to read very well.

Let's review this, the article was about what's wrong with math education. You make a post that I didn't agree with and I simply made a post back to you which I ended this way.

I don't disagree that what you say is important, just that you left out a very important cog.

To which you replied

You misunderstood what I wrote, and possibly cannot understand the very idea - without reading comprehension, which takes a lot of reading and a lot of training - the students don’t learn how to think. You make my case for me

So a mild disagreement with you somehow makes you feel I can't comprehend and I make your case for you? WOW, to which I responded by saying you were a pompous ass which then brings about calling me a liberal.

You are a piece of work and this last post of yours kind of proves my point about you I think.

I also think I see why no one else on this thoughtful topic bothered to respond to you.

I will end any attempt to have a dialogue with you but simply tell you that I am sure beyond any doubt that I have a far better grasp of math than you and after reading your posts back to me am almost as sure that my reading comprehension is at a minimum as good as yours and a very high probability of being better. I know I used a couple of math terms in that last sentence which might make your comprehension difficult.

To everyone else on this topic I apologize for getting involved with this poster and dragging down the topic.

You misunderstood what I wrote, and possibly cannot understand the very idea - without reading comprehension, which takes a lot of reading and a lot of training - the students don’t learn how to think. You make my case for me

And you make the case for you being a pompous ass.

Now that the niceties are out of the way, while you are right about needing to read to be able to understand, however without the proper math training their education is incomplete.