In Bismarck we took the grandkids to Taco Bell. I forget their dessert its like a cream filled donut hole. The guy at the counter was about 20 years old. I told him I'll take a dozen. He said we don't have a dozen we have two, four, or twelve.
Typical CA fag!! GFk and ND would be better off without people like you buying up property here and coming to visit with those kind of views
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We are just a bunch of drunken hillbilly’s.. never understood why so many from CA want to move away if their views and way of living is so great
I get that...wages way higher. Just givin' you a little poke to make myself smile. In reality, I don't give 2 shits what you do or where you live. Congrats on being released in 27 years... I think I might have a life sentence.Making a VERY GOOD living in 27 years to allow me to retire the way I wanted to when I went to work after college in 1968. You can live where you want and I won't criticize, but don't criticize where I chose to work and live.
Typical CA fag!! GFk and ND would be better off without people like you buying up property here and coming to visit with those kind of views
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We are just a bunch of drunken hillbilly’s.. never understood why so many from CA want to move away if their views and way of living is so great
Lack of number sense, plain and simple, is a huge issue with our youth. I teach HS students basic technical math and it is incredible what I see. I'd say over 50% of my students could not tell me that .25, 1/4th, 25/100, and 250/1000 all represent the same thing. Fractions are incredibly difficult for them as well. Equivalent fractions are deer in the headlights type questions. I'd say only 50% can put tape measure fractions in order from smallest to largest from 1/16 to 1" when they get to high school. Add in the fact that their retention is low when it comes to basic memorization of math facts. Many kids don't know their simple multiplication facts. And, it is frowned upon in the teaching world to make them be timely with their work. I tell kids that I don't have all day for them to tell me what 4 x 4 is, it should be instant from memory.
Why is this happening? Partially to blame is the fact we are teaching math differently than we used to (investigations style), trying to reach more learners. It's a free for all approach, like a 20 lane highway. If you can get to the answer in one of the lanes, you're good. Unfortunately, as math levels increase, the number of lanes gets smaller. At the highest level of math, you have to follow a certain order of operations. Now, most of our kids don't get to this level and are left with the jumbled mess of a method to come up with an answer. And usually in a less than timely manner. Add in the fact that technology is always at their fingertips and they want to lean on it all the time. I have students Google "what is 4 x 4". There are crazy apps like photo math that do everything for you too.
Life skills like this are slowly slipping away. It's a struggle in the classroom and very frustrating when I see it outside in the real world.
Lack of number sense, plain and simple, is a huge issue with our youth. I teach HS students basic technical math and it is incredible what I see. I'd say over 50% of my students could not tell me that .25, 1/4th, 25/100, and 250/1000 all represent the same thing. Fractions are incredibly difficult for them as well. Equivalent fractions are deer in the headlights type questions. I'd say only 50% can put tape measure fractions in order from smallest to largest from 1/16 to 1" when they get to high school. Add in the fact that their retention is low when it comes to basic memorization of math facts. Many kids don't know their simple multiplication facts. And, it is frowned upon in the teaching world to make them be timely with their work. I tell kids that I don't have all day for them to tell me what 4 x 4 is, it should be instant from memory.
Why is this happening? Partially to blame is the fact we are teaching math differently than we used to (investigations style), trying to reach more learners. It's a free for all approach, like a 20 lane highway. If you can get to the answer in one of the lanes, you're good. Unfortunately, as math levels increase, the number of lanes gets smaller. At the highest level of math, you have to follow a certain order of operations. Now, most of our kids don't get to this level and are left with the jumbled mess of a method to come up with an answer. And usually in a less than timely manner. Add in the fact that technology is always at their fingertips and they want to lean on it all the time. I have students Google "what is 4 x 4". There are crazy apps like photo math that do everything for you too.
Life skills like this are slowly slipping away. It's a struggle in the classroom and very frustrating when I see it outside in the real world.
Worked with a couple guys throughout the years that didn't know the marks on a tape measure.
Have them measure something and they would say 27 and 5 of those little marks! True story.[/QUOTE
mrs johnr is terrible with direction. Such as the house to the west of us, she will say, "you mean Josh's house", or some such similar type direction.
Look to the south at all them nice antelope, she will always look over her right shoulder, regardless of which direction that is. Not that she has a bad math mind, or cant read a tape, just cannot sense direction at all. Go into the basement, which is a walk out, and she doesn't know which direction she is looking going out the basement sliding door.. Its some sort of twilight zone shit..
Worked with a couple guys throughout the years that didn't know the marks on a tape measure.
Have them measure something and they would say 27 and 5 of those little marks! True story.
Typical CA fag!! GFk and ND would be better off without people like you buying up property here and coming to visit with those kind of views
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We are just a bunch of drunken hillbilly’s.. never understood why so many from CA want to move away if their views and way of living is so great
Lack of number sense, plain and simple, is a huge issue with our youth. I teach HS students basic technical math and it is incredible what I see. I'd say over 50% of my students could not tell me that .25, 1/4th, 25/100, and 250/1000 all represent the same thing. Fractions are incredibly difficult for them as well. Equivalent fractions are deer in the headlights type questions. I'd say only 50% can put tape measure fractions in order from smallest to largest from 1/16 to 1" when they get to high school. Add in the fact that their retention is low when it comes to basic memorization of math facts. Many kids don't know their simple multiplication facts. And, it is frowned upon in the teaching world to make them be timely with their work. I tell kids that I don't have all day for them to tell me what 4 x 4 is, it should be instant from memory.
Why is this happening? Partially to blame is the fact we are teaching math differently than we used to (investigations style), trying to reach more learners. It's a free for all approach, like a 20 lane highway. If you can get to the answer in one of the lanes, you're good. Unfortunately, as math levels increase, the number of lanes gets smaller. At the highest level of math, you have to follow a certain order of operations. Now, most of our kids don't get to this level and are left with the jumbled mess of a method to come up with an answer. And usually in a less than timely manner. Add in the fact that technology is always at their fingertips and they want to lean on it all the time. I have students Google "what is 4 x 4". There are crazy apps like photo math that do everything for you too.
Life skills like this are slowly slipping away. It's a struggle in the classroom and very frustrating when I see it outside in the real world.
In Bismarck we took the grandkids to Taco Bell. I forget their dessert its like a cream filled donut hole. The guy at the counter was about 20 years old. I told him I'll take a dozen. He said we don't have a dozen we have two, four, or twelve.
I get all of your first sentence/point.
Slightly beyond this I become agitated and stupefied; it's actual physical pain behind my eyes through my shoulders: The things which most interest me require good mathematics to fully grasp the concept.
Does a math disorder exist comparable to reading or am I destined a numbers retard?
I'd love to do a gd equation and understand it. I graduated somewhat dubiously in 1986.