As long as none of the pieces are white.
Students can focus long enough for checkers.
I credit early, extensive, competitive chess playing in school for a lot of my better thinking qualities I possess today.
Reading great literature will make smarter STEM students.
I dare them to try it.
Why is it of value to compare American students with Chinese students? That’s a question no one ever asks.
The USA has an extreme education problem. The public school system is always on the verge of collapse, it’s not cranking out smart kids, and the solution is always to rob the taxpayers a little bit more.
So this article says “We need more STEM students” and I don’t have to read the whole thing to know that what “we” REALLY need is to dump more $$$ into the public schools.
The USA will be competitive on the global scene as far as smart kids if more students attend private schools or are home-schooled. STEM is a great idea that will be easier to deploy in the private school setting.
The article doesn’t really address how crappy the average public school is. During my wanderings online I have actually met/chatted with people under age 20 who were really smart and excellent students who enjoyed school and didn’t have to be pushed to excel. (I know: Weird, huh?) The ones who attended public school ALWAYS reported that the school environment itself was a sort of hell, however. The article blabs away about how we need to teach kids to play chess so they can be competitive with the Chinese, who will TAKE OVER if we don’t hustle and catch up with them. I dunno. The Chinese are over there and the Crips and Bloods, the illegal aliens in their 20s/30s attending high school in the US, the extremely crappy teachers teaching Critical Race Theory: They’re all RIGHT HERE. Let’s worry about that first. Let the Chinese go hang.
Kinda questioning this idea. No matter how stupid a kid is or how bad a student, he’s usually not so dumb he can’t be taught how to operate a firearm or a tank, or some other piece of Military equipment.
Teach them to play chess? LOL, some of these kids are a lost cause. They are already cannon fodder, if you know what I’m saying. Let them shoot at our enemies instead of each other and maybe they can get some education in the meantime.
Did the “smart guys” win WWII? Or was it the guys with the most toys? Yes, we’ve “lost” some things since, mostly because we’ve been handicapped by such entities as the UN. But let’s face it, if we were to give it all we had each time, we might even be owning a part of Asia right now, instead of worrying about their kids being smarter than ours.
The COVID-1984 Scamdemic also showed that STEM have fields have been corrupted.
The acronym needs to be changed from STEM to FTEM as in Fauxi Technology Engineering, and Math because Fauxi is Science. NOT ONE scientific group stood up, disowned him, and called him out as a egotistical fraud.
The "scientists" went along with face diapers despite clear evidence that they don't work.
The "scientists" refuse to address the sick, false idea that XX = XY.
As for Technology, how many continue working with technology to spy on citizens? How many continue to support korporations using it to spread propaganda? How many programmers are involved with vote changing software and machines to steal elections?
As for Engineering, the examples of the Boeing 737Max shows that engineers are willing to overlook safety when it comes to paychecks.
As for Math, the "Globull Warming" "hockey-stick" graph and flawed data is still being used to justify Communist controls of countries and industries by the globalists.
No mathematicians challenged the clearly flawed math that came from the Imperial College in London. The author of the scam data, Neil Ferguson, wasn't run out of the industry. The college hasn't been removed from any academic group despite such fraudulent output. It's not "Mr. Neil Ferguson, exposed fraud professor" and "the former Imperial College of London".
recognizing that the mind of the citizen is a country’s greatest asset is the signpost of an actual progressive nation. The Deep State is hellbent on creating an ignorant and superstitious medieval New Age peasantry. Let’s not give them their wish. Every conservative parent should have as their child rearing strategy the goal of creating genius. It’s that ding dong simple.
First Rule of Chess Club?
Hide from Fight Club
Suddenly music, modern dance, street improv and graffiti will be added. Pretty soon you won't even have time for math and chess
In my experience as a software engineer with a computer science degree, most older programmers (say 50 or older) can often be identified with how they use their analytical skills in productive ways in their personal lives (i.e. studying God and the Bible, investing based on metrics, researching tax strategies and estate planning, etc.).
Most younger programmers or soon-to-be programmers can be found in video games. To hear them talk, they gravitate towards the video games that require a combination of strategy and quick thinking. Even if it's an action game it requires changes in tactics (to hear them talk about it LOL) "to beat the Koreans". LOL
Better Stem use: Play Blackjack, Bridge, Chess, and reading books on a regular basis, today being a Kindle user/reader.
A good goal for Blackjack players, is to not be allowed to play in casinos, because you can account for a full deck most of the time when playing with 3 or more people and the dealer. That is called card counting and is not allowed in most casinos.
With Bridge, numbers/points are used in bidding. You don’t get to see your partners hand until you win a bid. When playing a hand not bid by you or your partner, your goal is setting the bidder.
If your opponents win the bid, you need to keep track of your opponents’s dummy’s 13 cards layed down, face up, besides yours and your partners unseen hand. The difficulty is you can’t see their hands before/during and after bidding. If your opponents win the bid, you still can’t see your partner’s cards nor the winning bidders hand.
If you win the bid, you get to see your partner’s hand, so do your opponents. So, you can only guess and plot your strategy based on your hand and your partner’s hand after he lays it down, when you win the bid.
You never get to see your opponents’ cards until they are played one card at a time to the end of the game following a winning bid for your side. The opponents get to see your partner’s hand after he/she lays it down if you win the bid or your hand if your partner wins the bid.
Add daily crossword puzzles for the non math exercises.
Such as Bobby Fisher?
From the exhibit at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, learning to play a musical instrument might be more helpful. From brainscans, almost all aspects of the brain are lit up when playing an instrument.
I bet none of the STEM programs at Chinese Universties teach social justice math.
Texas Hold’em.
It’s funny—my college freshman son (majoring in Computer Science) has ADHD and struggled in high school in most classes that he wasn’t interested in (he only liked coding and engineering) but is really good at chess and plays it all the time and now writes chess programs. He’s good at programming, chess, and self-taught excellent ragtime piano. Even when he was a little boy he really could master what I call “pattern recognition” but it’s something much deeper than that—he “sees” things others can’t see. . .but also literally doesn’t know the months of the year in order. The classic chess obsessed”absent minded” professor type.