are yo really that stooopid or just pretending to be???...
I teach physics and chemistry at a private college prep school.
The BIGGEST problem I have is teaching kids the concept of a REASONABLE ANSWER.
Some of them don’t KNOW, (have not memorized) basic math facts...so they just write down what “the calculator” says, even when it’s a stupid answer.
IMHO, just the process of learning the +, -, * and / tables and seeing the relationships, instills self discipline, something, again IMHO, that is sorely lacking.
I for one would like to hail our new ‘calculator’ overlords......
I for one would like to hail our new ‘calculator’ overlords......
If you depend on the calculator you will forever be dependent on other people to do your thinking for you.
EMP attacks won’t wipe out your memory nor disable slide rules.
Please tell me you aren’t serious. “Them’s just jokes,” right?
I can’t tell you how many ignorant cashiers and waiters haven’t been able to give me proper change because the “machine” jammed, lost power, or just plain broke right in front of them.
Each time, I taught them how to count forward from the amount of the sale to the amount I tendered. Each time they stood there transfixed as if I had shown them a magic trick for the first time.
We have enough stupid people voting for Democrats. Let’s continue to teach basic readin’, writin’, and that other thang ‘bout countin’.
We are becoming so mentally lazy that we call 911 when we get lost in a corn maze, rather than thinking and figuring a way out of the problem.
I still do math in my head, even when on the computer and the “calculator” icon is there. I still taught my grandkids how to tell time on an analog clock with no numbers just by the position of the hands. I’ve run into kids brought up on digital clocks that can’t do that. Dunno how important that is, but it struck my fancy.
-PJ
I have an idea for you to consider. Lets just teach our kids to run and skip the crawling and walking stuff.
What you are suggesting is a bad idea.
Sure if you want people with no concept of mathematics.
His beef that when they were doing stoichiometry problems, they were using the calculator to type in molar conversions
...of the form x 1 = ... ÷ 1 = ...
Cheers!
Good job writing that absurd satirical question as if you were serious. Funny.
are yo really that stooopid or just pretending to be???If you don’t have a grounding in the basics of math, using a calculator is indistinguishable from uttering a magic spell. They will have no idea whether the number appearing on the screen was calculated correctly or not.
“Did you even understand why these algorithms worked at the time you were taught them?”
Is that relevant? Did you understand how a calculator works when you were first taught to use one? Do you now? Does that stop you from using one?
What do I think? I think you should learn that happy kwanza song as soon as possible. What kind of country wants their children to grow up in a world without a happy kwanza song? If it was good enough for our forefathers and the founders of this country, then it’s good enough for us. Algorithms or AlGoreRhythms, what’s the difference? We send our children to school for interaction with others and to babysit when we are at work not for critical thinking skills. They’ll learn that on the job. maybe college . . who knows? The main thing is for our kids happiness. And that means happy kwanza songs and not boring Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Or history. or economics.