Posted on 10/07/2023 3:40:59 AM PDT by george76
It's five-sixths....
This guy didn’t attend a “math boot camp”; rather, it was a recruitment center for Democrat/Communist Party political candidates, the perfect Democrat/Communist Party candidate being a person who cannot think, who without question does precisely what they’re told to do, and who does not interfere with the Democrat/Communist Party’s primary objective to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” as publicly proclaimed by the mulatto-marxist-muslim in 2008.
Bingo. I taught financial accounting for 35 years. Over that time, students lost the ability to estimate the result of a calculation and compare that to the result they read on their calculators. A large percentage of students have no concept of scale. 1,000 and 1,000,000 are the same number in their minds.
I'm from the end of the slide rule generation. That device gives you two or three significant digits but no decimal. You have to figure that out by estimating the result in your own brain. That habit has served me well.
Fractions are simply out of the question for the calculator generation and percents are a mystery to many of them. Calculators should not be allowed in math until fractions and percents are mastered.
I always started the first day of college accounting principles with a short quiz.
1. What is 38 percent of 100?
2. True or False? Adam Smith must have written a book or something.
3. What direction is it to California?
The results were appalling.
Since math is racist, this actually demonstrates progress on the part of American K-12 education.
We can always import STEM grads if we need them. As long as they’re nonwhite and promise to vote democrat.
“I’m from the end of the slide rule generation. That device gives you two or three significant digits but no decimal. You have to figure that out by estimating the result in your own brain. That habit has served me well.”
I too am from that generation, and agree that being taught how to use a slide rule forces you to understand orders of magnitude, as well as logs. It also provides a sense of whether or not your answer is “in the ball park”.
equals 5/6
That’s how Mrs Baker taught us in elementary school.
My feeble mind this am says 5/6 but not sure with the new math if that is right.
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If memory serves me in my dotage, 1/2 + 1/3 is not even high school level math. Maybe 6th. grade level?
“Take away the calculators. They are programmed from a very young age to reach for the device reflexively. Later in life it’s the phone, cash register, whatever.”
My kids NEVER used a calculator for learning math...simply because I wouldn’t let them. Calculator skills are best taught in a Programming class, right next to computer skills, they DO NOT belong in math class because they have nothing to do with learning math.
As an aside, just because a student is slower doesn’t mean that he or she is less mathematically inclined.
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My son came home from school one day, I believe he was in second grade, he was talking about they had taken that day, he had told me he had done well on the test but his good friend Jimmy had failed it.
I said, is Jimmy kind of “slow”? He said, no dad, he’s fast, he’s always the first one done, he just gets them all wrong.
Still have mine at 82 - and remember how to use it! It’s a Sun - Hemmi I bought in Hong Kong for like $3. Has Chemical scales on it (Atomic weights, pressure and temperature conversions).
It is the same as 5 divided by 6, or 5 out of 6. Your solution of .83333 is correct. 5 is 83.3% of 6.
You’ve clearly not been poisoned by ‘common core’, FRiend.
;-)
Yeah, I remember those days in school, slavin’ over a hot Pickett :-)
You are correct.
On the calculator that is built into every hand held computer (smart Phone) there are no fractions. Calculators use decimals.
Fractions are obsolete
His other good friend, half Korean and female, can't stop the phone from ringing for job interviews. Another STEM graduate. Soft STEM majors, some sort of sciences.
THAT is what they want in STEM.
Come on man, everybody knows 1/2 +1/3= 11/23
The calculator on my iPad can do fractions. I imagine the one on my phone probably can as well. I’ve never looked.
“Fractions are obsolete”
That is 1/2 true.
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