Baby How To Rase Kids Part I

[kiwi]

I'm sure it's a great tool.
I learned math between 1970 and 1984.
Learning a new system of learning is hard.
I don't think in the manner which this curriculum wants me to.

It takes soMe switching of thought but my boys caught on fairly well and are good at breaking things apart to quickly do problems based on 10s. With that said some of the explain how gets tedious. Since we're at home I just have them verbally explain it to me as if I didn't know how.

 

[DJBrenton]

New math is basically using shortcuts.
Instead of multiplying 49 and 41, you multiply 50 and 40, then you add 9, shit like that.

I was doing that sort of thing in my head in the 60's so what's 'new' about it?

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

I was doing that sort of thing in my head in the 60's so what's 'new' about it?

Don't domon around, man.

"New math" is not new.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Write three circles in a triangle shape.
Put 5 in the top circle, then 4 in one of the circles then 1 in the remaining circle.
Voila!
Number bond.

Sounds like a bunch of hippy bullshit to me

 

[nukes]

Sounds like a bunch of hippy bullshit to me

Inorite?
9+7=16.
We memorized tables.
As long as my kids learn it's all good.
But maybe they should send pamphlets home for the parents to cliff this hippy shit.

 

[Lambie]

This is what I've gotten from this thread so far:

NOTHING MUST CHANGE, EVER! CHANGE IS BAAAD!!

NO CHILD SHOULD EVER QUESTION AUTHORITY! HOW FUCKING DARE THEY?! WHEN THE FÜHRER SAYS "JUMP", YOU SAY "HOW HIGH"!!

HAVING TO BEAT CHILDREN INTO SUBMISSION IS PURE WIN, AND IS IN NO WAY A REFLECTION OF YOUR SHITTY PARENTING-SKILLS!!

BHGRRALLLBRRGHHHLLLL!!!

Amirite?

 

[Domon]

Inorite?
9+7=16.
We memorized tables.
As long as my kids learn it's all good.
But maybe they should send pamphlets home for the parents to cliff this hippy shit.

you memorized tables (and so did i) up to maybe 12.

This teaches how to do any number.

 

[kiwi]

you memorized tables (and so did i) up to maybe 12.

This teaches how to do any number.

Yep. My 8 year old can easily break apart something times 24 in his head. That was never even encouraged when I was in school yet now he's got multiple mental math lessons that work on the skill.

 

[OzSTEEZ]

Yep. My 8 year old can easily break apart something times 24 in his head. That was never even encouraged when I was in school yet now he's got multiple mental math lessons that work on the skill.

That is what they taught us back in the late 80s and early 90s.

 

[Lambie]

I was in school in the 80's/90's, and I have no fucking idea what we where doing back then.
Probably because I wasn't beaten severely enough, which turned me into a little shitpunk.

And look at me now. Unemployed and drunk. Fuq dis.

 

[nukes]

I was in school in the 80's/90's, and I have no fucking idea what we where doing back then.
Probably because I wasn't beaten severely enough, which turned me into a little shitpunk.

And look at me now. Unemployed and drunk. Fuq dis.

The adoption papers are in the mail.
Sign in triplicate, initial twice.
You'll have to live in the gazebo with Mac.
I'm assuming one of you will die shortly from alcohol poisoning, at which point we feed you to the cats.

 

[DJBrenton]

The adoption papers are in the mail.
Sign in triplicate, initial twice.
You'll have to live in the gazebo with Mac.
I'm assuming one of you will die shortly from alcohol poisoning, at which point we feed you to the cats.

So if someone drinks enough would it be possible to refine usable alcohol from their blood?

 

[nukes]

So if someone drinks enough would it be possible to refine usable alcohol from their blood?

Im no chemist, but I'm pretty sure alcohol can be distilled from just about any organic substance.
Don't try wood. Unless death is the goal.

 

[MacG]

The adoption papers are in the mail.
Sign in triplicate, initial twice.
You'll have to live in the gazebo with Mac.
I'm assuming one of you will die shortly from alcohol poisoning, at which point we feed you to the cats.

What happens if one of us dies, and the other eats him and gets drunk.

Woah mind fuck man, mind fuck...

 

[Jehannum]

you memorized tables (and so did i) up to maybe 12.

This teaches how to do any number.

You also had to do two's complement for subtraction and correct IEEE-754 rounding errors, so I don't think your experiences are particularly valid.

 

[Domon]

You also had to do two's complement for subtraction and correct IEEE-754 rounding errors, so I don't think your experiences are particularly valid.

pffft, my math coprocessor took care of all that.

I just learned factoring of large primes all day erry day.

 

[Strings]

Look @nukes , your thread turned into a numbers thread. This could go on for ever.

 

[Darth Handsome]

This is what I've gotten from this thread so far:

NOTHING MUST CHANGE, EVER! CHANGE IS BAAAD!!

NO CHILD SHOULD EVER QUESTION AUTHORITY! HOW FUCKING DARE THEY?! WHEN THE FÜHRER SAYS "JUMP", YOU SAY "HOW HIGH"!!

HAVING TO BEAT CHILDREN INTO SUBMISSION IS PURE WIN, AND IS IN NO WAY A REFLECTION OF YOUR SHITTY PARENTING-SKILLS!!

BHGRRALLLBRRGHHHLLLL!!!

Amirite?

Aren't you the one who argued that you should let the crooked driver take controls of the bus & allow the status quo to continue?

 

[MacG]

Aren't you the one who argued that you should let the crooked driver take controls of the bus & allow the status quo to continue?

Are you trying to reason with a person who smokes crack and drinks all night, passes out on the floor and almost drowns in his own puke?

 

[Lambie]

Aren't you the one who argued that you should let the crooked driver take controls of the bus & allow the status quo to continue?

Given the choice between a crooked driver and a coked-up retarded driver? Sure.

And I never claimed that change is always a good thing, baby.

Hitler and Pol Pot changed things, but it wasn't really for the better.