Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Tectoniic]

Originally Posted by p1l0t

It's the way the Egyptians taught it basically.

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Had to look that up, good to know

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Hey I am still trying to wrap my head around metric and we have had it for 44 years so don't throw this shit at me! I will lose sleep trying to figure out how the hell that works.

Man I wish we used metric here. Outside of having to completely familiarize myself with eyeballing metric measurements I would love to use base 10 numbers.

Originally Posted by finch1750

I have only skimmed common core math but I get the point. It may seem like a waste for simple stuff but is teaching the "why" and "how" to the memorized answer. It is why you write 1-2 pages solving derivatives when learning them only to be taught a shortcut to make it 3 lines the next chapter.

It allows for easier understand and solving of complex problems later imo.

5 x 3 and 3 x 5 may get the same answer but through a different route when it comes down to it.

I am kind of sitting here laughing to myself as my first thought as well was the "why" and "when" to use common core whereas the parents who were complaining about it could only see that specific problem where it didn't make sense as it was more complicated in that specific instance. This is coming from someone who always got in trouble for not showing enough of their work on math.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by KR-S 86

He's one of the few people on my ignore list for that reason. He once necrobumped a thread with near-irrelevant and sometimes old articles, and when called out on it, he justifies his actions by claiming this was how things on FT86Club were done in the past and calls the thread "official," saying that everything relating to X car model should go, even if the thread title is focused on only one specific car and not necessarily other cars of the same model.

Making threads on clickbait articles is annoying, but necrobumping threads with said clickbait articles is just as annoying if not slightly worse.

I did the rounds with him once, ignore listed him about two years ago, saw the spam and appreciated that he saved me some time and prevented giving 0.01 cents to some trashy website in ad revenue.

I've got 6 people on my ignore list, totally happy with that figure. I bet I'm on one or two people's ignore list as well.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

I did the rounds with him once, ignore listed him about two years ago, saw the spam and appreciated that he saved me some time and prevented giving 0.01 cents to some trashy website in ad revenue.

I've got 6 people on my ignore list, totally happy with that figure. I bet I'm on one or two people's ignore list as well.

I wonder how many lists I am on?


The fun part is that nobody that has me on their list will read this!


Jerks.

[echo419]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Still waiting on the fathers day one!

show up to one of my baseball games for once and we'll see about that.

[ScoobsMcGee]

Originally Posted by Tectoniic

I think they forgot the "Illuminati Confirmed" at the bottom of the common core math.

[Tectoniic]

I can't bring my self to blacklist anyone... what if they say something funny/useful in the future?

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Tectoniic

I've got another controversial topic because work is slow AF today.....

Conventional VS Common Core Math

Coincidentally that argument is why I hid my cousin on facebook.

Of course you Mrs. 30-something-year-old woman can do that three digit subtraction in your head with that trick you've been using for over 2 decades.

Your 6 year old needs it fucking explained step by step and that's what common core does you dipshit. I've got an Aunt in retirement age who will happily admit she doesn't understand fucking fractions. I'm all for abolishing 'teach to the test' but national standards are the reason Japan and Finland are top of the class meanwhile we've got states trying to teach fairy tales in science class.

[echo419]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

I did the rounds with him once, ignore listed him about two years ago, saw the spam and appreciated that he saved me some time and prevented giving 0.01 cents to some trashy website in ad revenue.

I've got 6 people on my ignore list, totally happy with that figure. I bet I'm on one or two people's ignore list as well.

I don't think I have a problem with anyone on this whole forum. of course I say that with possible ignorance.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by echo419

I don't think I have a problem with anyone on this whole forum. of course I say that with possible ignorance.

Some people know how to shut their mouths better than others, I like to think I've learned over the ~3 years since I joined the site.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by echo419

show up to one of my baseball games for once and we'll see about that.

??????

[ScoobsMcGee]

I kind of want to see who, if anyone, has me blocked. Should be good for a chuckle.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

Some people know how to shut their mouths better than others, I like to think I've learned over the ~3 years since I joined the site.

Ya some of them ar....




Hey wait a second here!

[Tectoniic]

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

I think they forgot the "Illuminati Confirmed" at the bottom of the common core math.

What if the illuminati is using common core to make us do the mathematics slower so we aren't as smarter and can't stop them when they take over the world?

^^ I tried to make this look stupid but I don't think it is obvious enough so please take this as sarcastically as possible. Thanks!


One last thing about common core:

Very specific example where if you did both methods and wrote out all your steps common core is infinitely faster

[finch1750]

Originally Posted by Tectoniic

Had to look that up, good to know



Man I wish we used metric here. Outside of having to completely familiarize myself with eyeballing metric measurements I would love to use base 10 numbers.



I am kind of sitting here laughing to myself as my first thought as well was the "why" and "when" to use common core whereas the parents who were complaining about it could only see that specific problem where it didn't make sense as it was more complicated in that specific instance. This is coming from someone who always got in trouble for not showing enough of their work on math.

i was the same kid lol. Was good at math til Calc and then i couldnt figure out the why so easy so I never quite grasped it. In my work and daily life once I figured out the why is so important it changed my outlook on everything