Math

[RjThoughts]

The last year of high school, they finally got a terminal that hooked up to an IBM 360 mainframe somewhere not the high school. It connect via a 300 baud acoustic modem. The terminal was also the printer and there was an 80 column punch card reader hooked up to it also.

Those were the days.

In 1978, I started high school. We had two terminals that were hooked up to two IBM's off campus, one at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, 14 miles away in Troy NY, the other to one at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, a military and government laboratory plant a few miles away. I learned to program BASIC on those terminals, as well as a band new Apple II the school district purchased.

The year before, though, I was allowed in the bowels of a savings bank, into their computer room, where three floor-to-ceiling IBM reel-to-reel tape memory computer were housed. Some of us kids of bank employees who showed the intellect to understand computers, were brought in once a month to "help" with "end of the month" purging. Okay, so all we did for a few hours was print off "Snoopy", "LOVE", calendars, and play games like football, hockey, baseball, and Star Trek.

 

[NippleMuncher]

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/relate-15.jpg

 

[NippleMuncher]

Short piece of this vid clip. It should cue up at the right moment and will be over in about 20 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WaiSzQQkJP0#t=328

 

[Que]

Hey...I recognize him...that's Spiderman Demorte!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

In 1978, I started high school. We had two terminals that were hooked up to two IBM's off campus, one at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, 14 miles away in Troy NY, the other to one at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, a military and government laboratory plant a few miles away. I learned to program BASIC on those terminals, as well as a band new Apple II the school district purchased.

The year before, though, I was allowed in the bowels of a savings bank, into their computer room, where three floor-to-ceiling IBM reel-to-reel tape memory computer were housed. Some of us kids of bank employees who showed the intellect to understand computers, were brought in once a month to "help" with "end of the month" purging. Okay, so all we did for a few hours was print off "Snoopy", "LOVE", calendars, and play games like football, hockey, baseball, and Star Trek.

^^^^^^His present profession and career, except he does it from Ma's basement.

 

[NippleMuncher]

Hey...I recognize him...that's Spiderman Demorte!

That's Deadpool, a character introduced, and killed off, in the previous episode of the X-men movies, played by Ryan Reynolds. He's been a comic character for a long time.

 

[Que]

That's Deadpool, a character introduced, and killed off, in the previous episode of the X-men movies, played by Ryan Reynolds. He's been a comic character for a long time.

Yes, I know. Ulleven has explained it to me several times. Usually when he threatens to lay me out on the floor if I pat his head again.

 

[bailadora]

Someone shared this with me today. Pretty neat, huh? I just spent the last half hour working math problems, and having fun at it!

 

[NippleMuncher]

Someone shared this with me today. Pretty neat, huh? I just spent the last half hour working math problems, and having fun at it!

That's pretty damned cool! Imagine the teacher's reaction after you were told to show your work! LOL

 

[NippleMuncher]

http://33.media.tumblr.com/bbaacacf34881cb3726bf31b0e8f0700/tumblr_nf10s4vj9c1snf3tvo1_500.jpg

 

[Eilan]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcoxdd7NfZ1qery84.jpg

 

[NippleMuncher]

http://41.media.tumblr.com/c7e8b84bf04c6309a56ae5d182426fe0/tumblr_ngd7h3Qa4e1thcx27o1_1280.jpg

 

[cyberking001]

Nine and five ARE numbers, nine plus five IS thirteen.

no ... 9 and 5 make 14!!!
sam

 

[Emerson40]

http://40.media.tumblr.com/e774e5f5a62f6a72d3ce1513a3baf968/tumblr_nish8cWN6h1snz8bwo1_500.jpg

 

[WildBill2015]

Subscribed! Hilarious. Will add one of my own when I have time, but I just wanted to say I love the "problems" on the first page.

 

[cyberking001]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcoxdd7NfZ1qery84.jpg

actually he is fucking CUTE
i would get on my knees for him in a heartbeat
sam

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

Hell when I was back in school calculators were the sized of a bus and no one had heard of computers except in science fiction stories, and even then they were called ultra calculators and were the size of a house.

Everyone did have a slip-stick though...slide rule for you uninitiated.

Zeb. a bunch of years ago I went to a navy school. The first day they handed me a slip stick and started with 1 + 1 = 2 and 5 weeks later I was doing right angle trig and doing complex AC circuit analysis. I still have a similar slide rule in a drawer.

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcoxdd7NfZ1qery84.jpg

Since Calculus is the mathematics of curves and what is under them it seem this guy had plenty to work with.

 

[NippleMuncher]

Watch as much of the vid as you want, the pertinent part starts at 1:10 and lasts about a minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdcid72mqQ

 

[ReadyOne]

Common Core math exam answers, with pictures

A very humorous article!

 

[RjThoughts]

A very humorous article!

Common Core Math is basically teaching these kids to over-think Algebraically how to add and subtract. Sheesh, who's making money off of this bullshit?!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Common core and other exotic math processes mean jobs for educrats; in the real world brainiacal is dismissed as manicical and forgotten. Its like diagramming sentences back in the 1950s.

 

[NippleMuncher]

Common Core Math is basically teaching these kids to over-think Algebraically how to add and subtract. Sheesh, who's making money off of this bullshit?!

Algebra doesn't even make sense, and they <the board of education> want kids to use it before they've even grasped basic mathematics skills? I bet that the BOE would fail if they had to take those tests.

 

[RjThoughts]

Algebra doesn't even make sense, and they <the board of education> want kids to use it before they've even grasped basic mathematics skills? I bet that the BOE would fail if they had to take those tests.

Algebra is simple AND is used in reality:

20% tip on $124.39 check
Move the decimal point one place to the left: $12.44 (I rounded up)
And double it: $24.88

Another example:

8 + 5 =
(8 + 2) + 3 =
10 + 3 = 13

This is shit kids should learn.....WHEN they're 12, 13, 14, not fucking when they're 6, 7, 8!

Someone's getting money off of this shit!!

 

[NippleMuncher]

Algebra is simple AND is used in reality:

20% tip on $124.39 check
Move the decimal point one place to the left: $12.44 (I rounded up)
And double it: $24.88

Another example:

8 + 5 =
(8 + 2) + 3 =
10 + 3 = 13

This is shit kids should learn.....WHEN they're 12, 13, 14, not fucking when they're 6, 7, 8!

Someone's getting money off of this shit!!

Don't get me wrong, I believe that algebra and higher math forms are important for everyone to learn, what I'm saying is, for someone who is NOT math inclined, algebra makes no sense <raises hand>, it has never made sense to me, and no math teacher, save one - in college - ever explained it in a manner that it even could remotely make sense. What chance do kids with hardly a grasp of addition and subtraction have of understanding it, particularly when it isn't taught as algebra, they are just asked a stupid question of when does 8+5= 10, the answer is, NEVER! There are lots of number combinations that add up to 10, 8+5 isn't one of them.

You want to make kids want to learn math, or any other subject? Teach them how this information impacts their lives, and how knowledge of this information is directly beneficial to them. Give them a reason to learn it, a reason other than some group of morons sitting around a conference table thinking up new ways to make our kids hate school and be ill-prepared for life.