Math...

[Pavan Dave]

I've been very quiet on CD recently and on my return, I thought it appropriate to share this picture I stumbled on this morning.






Pavan



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[JohnBoucher]

Spot on

[JaneYoung]

I didn't know that failing math or failing to doing homework for more than 15 minutes was gender-specific.

Jane

[JamesCH95]

This makes me laugh on the outside, and cry on the inside.

I wouldn't believe it if my girlfriend wasn't a teacher and already giving failing grades high school seniors in geometry...

[StuMac]

I wasn't allowed to bring in my slide rule during one of my calculus finals. Apparently It could lead to me cheating. Yet I was allowed to bring my programmable calculator. Odd.

[fireyoshi]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

I didn't know that failing math or failing to doing homework for more than 15 minutes was gender-specific.

Many websites I've gone on state that the use of "he" as a gender-neutral pronoun is "archaic and sexist". I'm just a college freshman, and I learned to use "he" as a gender-neutral noun in elementary school, and that was less than ten years ago.

[EricVanWyk]

This is why I had 3 calculators in highschool:

TI 83
HP 11C
Omron 12SR

I did nearly everything on the Omron (provided I was sitting near an electrical outlet so I could plug it into the wall). The thing was so slow that it meant I had to do the actual math myself and then check it with the calculator. I ended up being one of the fastest people in my calculus class, because I never bothered to learn how to make the TI-83 integrate for me.

It has paid off well.

PS: Yes, the calculator really was 8 years older than me.

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

I didn't know that failing math or failing to doing homework for more than 15 minutes was gender-specific.

Jane

I believe HE'LL is capitalized because it implies that the person is going to Hell.

[Jared Russell]

I realize I may be toeing a sensitive line with this reply, but I can't resist:



If it's any consolation, the engineers of the 1960's complained that THEIR children had it easy and were lazy, too (I know my grandfather did). It's pretty much a universal truth that Generation N thinks that Generation N+1 is going to be the downfall of the human race.

Are kids today REALLY any different than they've ever been?

"It's amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having gotten there." - Andy Rooney

[Cory]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

I didn't know that failing math or failing to doing homework for more than 15 minutes was gender-specific.

Jane

I think the use of he was in reference to the astronaut-as in "He (the astronaut) landed on the moon. Your eigth grader does 15 minutes of homework. Where do you think he'll end up?"

If it's trying to say he'll go to hell, well that's just idiotic.

[Chris is me]

To be fair to the poster, it loses its edge and becomes a lot more clumsy with "he or she", and "they're" isn't accepted by everyone as a proper term.

[JaneYoung]

I think there is/was a lot of potential in the message of the poster - it just is a little messy. Well, pretty messy. Or mixed. Mixed messy message.

That's nothing new either.

Jane

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

I didn't know that failing math or failing to doing homework for more than 15 minutes was gender-specific.

Jane

The purpose of written communication is to gain an understanding between the writer and the reader.

Whether the writer is gender/politically correct or not, the information and meaning of the poster is well conveyed and its purpose served.

[rsisk]

So why is a slide rule needed to make a poster

[Akash Rastogi]

I like it.

Mostly because I'm terrible at understanding math, yet there's a bunch of technology around me, and a bunch of kids around me who don't even put in any effort to try to learn anything.

Yes I want to be a mechanical engineer and I have a hard time understanding math sometimes(when its not applied to real life examples, mind you).

Stuff like this goes from a student to student basis. I suck at math, just because I have a hard time understanding calculus, but that doesn't mean I (always) totally give up on it.

The technology doesn't have very much to do with it. The point of the poster is how much effort is put in by some kids. I do agree though, that this mindset is present in every generation.

Nice find, Pavan.

Know what's scary though? Stuff like this:

"Forty-four percent of American 4th grade students cannot read fluently, even when they read grade-level stories aloud under supportive testing conditions. " -National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Pinnell et al., 1995

"50 percent of American adults are unable to read an eighth grade level book."-Jonathan Kozol, Illiterate America