Student invents new math process

Student invents new math process

(EXCERPT) by Mike Wallace Aeronautical Systems Center Public Affairs

11/18/2003 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Killie
Rick found a new solution to subtraction problems involving whole
numbers and fractions. She used the concept of negative numbers in a
way that has never been done before, as far as her seventh-grade
teacher has been able to ascertain.

The 12-year-old girl is the daughter of Terri Rick, a senior
accountin...

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Otis Willie
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Whats so special about this. Are the expectations in US schools so low? Has
a student in one of many thousnads of high schools finally found a way to do
simple math,. gosh soon they might be doing linear equtions in year 8....

Marcin

Otis Willie wrote in
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Student invents new math process

I have ask, whats the other way of doing it?

On 20 Nov 2003 10:19:02 GMT, Seraphim wrote:

Otis Willie wrote in
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Student invents new math process

I have ask, whats the other way of doing it?



Key phrase : "as far as her seventh-grade
teacher has been able to ascertain."

Scott Ferrin wrote in message
news

Key phrase : "as far as her seventh-grade
teacher has been able to ascertain."

I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT scores of
any field other than physical education.

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Ok, so she did the fraction subtraction, then borrowed from the ones
place, rather than the other way around.

So bleeping whut?

Roger that-

I just read the article in the local base paper.

Her "math teacher" [sic] was amazed because he said you can subrtract the
fractions in only 5 steps, instead of 7 like he has been teaching.

What about doing it in three steps like they used to teach?!?!?!?!?!?!

Convert to LCD, subtract, convert back?

Apparently with the "new math" you have to break each term up into common
units, subtract each one separately, convert back, then add together,
combine, etc. . . .

Steve Swartz



"Mark Schaeffer" wrote in message
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Ok, so she did the fraction subtraction, then borrowed from the ones
place, rather than the other way around.

So bleeping whut?

"tscottme" wrote in
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Scott Ferrin wrote in message
news

Key phrase : "as far as her seventh-grade
teacher has been able to ascertain."

I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT
scores of any field other than physical education.

Yeah, but being able to graduate college should mean you have a firm
understanding of things like subtraction.

"Seraphim" wrote in message
.. .
"tscottme" wrote in
:

Scott Ferrin wrote in message
news

Key phrase : "as far as her seventh-grade
teacher has been able to ascertain."

I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT
scores of any field other than physical education.

Yeah, but being able to graduate college should mean you have a firm
understanding of things like subtraction.

To be fair to teachers, when I was in the 8th grade (1962), a science
teacher had no idea why I couldn't spin a magnet up in a vacuum, inside a
coil and extract unlimited energy from it.

That said, the bar for education majors is set very, very low and still they
can't clear it. NY City announced that they were firing 3000 teachers who
couldn't pass the (10th grade level) competency test after as many as 12
tries. One flunky protested that the test covered things that were
inapplicable to what she did in a classroom.

I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT scores of
any field other than physical education.

That seems to be true, and it is one of the most rgrettable things
about our society. Our kids should be taught by the brightest, not
by the dimmest.

vince norris