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Math disaster in college: Would-be STEM majors can't add 1/2 + 1/3
Joanne Jacobs ^
| Sep 6, 2023
| Joanne Jacobs
Posted on 10/07/2023 3:40:59 AM PDT by george76
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To: Bounced2X
1980....Our professor said no calculators...and we used the slide rule. Said he wanted us to learn to anticipate what the answer should be +-
To: Bounced2X
Well, then your college was a little behind technology, I guess. I had just completed 8 years in the AF (68-76) and was on a TDY team that optimized communications links all the way from Iceland down through Europe and onto Greece and Turkey.
We were using HP35s for the testing and at the end were given HP45s.
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10/07/2023 10:53:56 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
10/07/2023 12:00:52 PM PDT
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grey_whiskers
( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: coalminersson
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posted on
10/07/2023 12:06:00 PM PDT
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grey_whiskers
( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
To: george76
Computer Science was conflated with Math because that was what the earliest computers were for but Computer Science and Math have been de-linking over the last two decades.
Logic, Language, Hierarchies, Cause and Effect, etc., are required for modern programming. Math is only for one subset of computer use.
To: WinMod70
Does 5/6 mean somewhere between 5 and 6? No, it means what portion of X do you get if you add half of X to 1/3 of X.
X could be a pound of sugar or a ton of gravel; what the instructor wants to know is whether the student can add fractions with different denominators.
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10/07/2023 1:00:46 PM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
To: T.B. Yoits
Just adding to what you wrote... I read that colleges added the calculus requirement for Computer Science in the 1980s when CSC became a popular major because colleges wanted to limit the number of CSC students. One of my kids earned a CSC degree, and he did very well in math, but he’s said that, so far, he’s never needed calculus in his job.
To: Bounced2X
I have an old one that belonged to my father. I wish he'd shown me how to use it. It looks like this:
image. Unfortunately, I've never been able to get the middle section to slide, and I don't want to push too hard for fear of breaking the ruler.
To: george76
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is doing things like this.
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posted on
10/07/2023 2:45:01 PM PDT
by
jmcenanly
(You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
To: grundle
Was that a Yogi Berra quote?
To: antidemoncrat
And they can name all of the Kardashians!
To: Rennes Templar
which is ironically what they are brining the students down to.Apparently the spelling too.....
To: P.O.E.
My Dad had a store,,,,I worked in it. I learned how to count back cash payments.
I am sure not very many folks can do that now,.,
To: bgill
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10/07/2023 4:39:40 PM PDT
by
Adder
(End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
To: george76
Bullsit. This is not possible.
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posted on
10/07/2023 8:53:03 PM PDT
by
Stepan12
(Enrique Tarrio? “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – those who are mistreated…” Hebrew)
To: george76
It was not covid shutdown. It was the damaging math curriculum they have been taught for the past twenty years.
Even in Best of schools.
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10/07/2023 9:10:46 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
To: Osage Orange
Grew up working in my Grandpa’s gas station. Besides counting change, learned to “face” the money so the bills were easy to differentiate. Drives me crazy even the banks don’t do that anymore.
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10/07/2023 9:16:59 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America.)
To: Graybeard58
4th grade math
Taught all my kids using g Saxon.
Son is only guy on the job who can figure out the umbers.
Have an accountant and a nurse in the mix
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10/07/2023 9:18:09 PM PDT
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Chickensoup
(Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
To: P.O.E.
Counting change back dollars and change was easy...most people cannot do that anymore.............
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