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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... U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully reproducing copyrighted material. In abidance with our laws this report cannot be provided in its entirety. However, you can read it in full today, 19 Nov 2003, at the following URL. (COMBINE the following lines into your web browser.) The subject/content of this report is not necessarily the viewpoint of the distributing Library. This report is provided for your information and discussion. http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123006043 --------------------------- Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American War Library http://www.americanwarlibrary.com |
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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 |
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Otis Willie wrote in
: Student invents new math process I have ask, whats the other way of doing it? |
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On 20 Nov 2003 10:19:02 GMT, Seraphim wrote:
Otis Willie wrote in : 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." |
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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. -- Scott -------- Monitor the latest efforts of "peaceful Muslims" at http://www.jihadwatch.org/ |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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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 |
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vincent p. norris wrote:
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. One of my teachers once said "you're not here to learn, you're here to be taught". Looks like that sentiment still holds. The school's only A-level chemistry teacher went off sick the second year of my studies, the best the school could come up with was a teacher who was learning the syllabus as he was teaching it. Most of the time he was only one lesson ahead of us, if we picked something up quicker than planned then he couldn't do anymore 'til he'd learnt it for the next session. A truely stupid plan but we got through the year somehow. -- James... http://www.jameshart.co.uk/ |
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On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:30:04 -0500, vincent p. norris
wrote: 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. We aren't willing to pay for the brightest, though. Say I'm good at math and I like it, so I can go into teaching for some miserable pittance or I can go into engineering for three times as much. If I'm as smart as you're hoping for, I'm too smart to go into teaching. And I save a year of college, because teaching takes five years and engineering takes the standard four years. In my own case, my father was a high-school teacher and my parents really did their best to discourage me from going into teaching. Having watched my father, I was never tempted at all. Teaching a night course at the local junior college for three semesters just reaffirmed the rightness of my decision. If you want, you can blame it all on the women's movement, since it was that that opened other occupations to women. No longer forced to be teachers or nurses, we chose higher-paying, more prestigious professions. Let's face it, "I'm a third-grade teacher" doesn't get nearly the attention "I'm a research engineer at NASA" does. Mary -- Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer |
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