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malthaussen

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8. Yeah, she had a lot of trouble with math...

Reply to A HERETIC I AM (Reply #7)

Fri Oct 6, 2023, 11:54 AM

Oct 2023

In another one, Charlie is coaching her on multiplication, asks something like "how much is seven times six," and she goes off the edge, with "twiddly-two? Quddelly-poo?" and other such... Charlie stops her with "Now you're just guessing."

-- Mal

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Can some explain equity based math for me? [View all] ripcord Oct 2023 OP

From what I have seen, ExciteBike66 Oct 2023 #1

Math fads Effete Snob Oct 2023 #2

Charlie Schulz did a comic on it... malthaussen Oct 2023 #5

I remember Sally doing her times tables; A HERETIC I AM Oct 2023 #7

Yeah, she had a lot of trouble with math... malthaussen Oct 2023 #8

It's more about the pedagogy than the math. WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2023 #3

What, you mean "If Joe buys 12 dozen oranges at 20 cents apiece..." malthaussen Oct 2023 #4

Well how are you supposed to figure out... MiHale Oct 2023 #10

Given that oranges cost .39 cents each now? Lancero Oct 2023 #15

Among various other things Zeitghost Oct 2023 #6

I read an article just now by a Stanford math professor ripcord Oct 2023 #9

I imagine these things come in cycles. malthaussen Oct 2023 #13

I have the same concerns Zeitghost Oct 2023 #14

when my son was in a gifted class in grade school, the teacher told me that demigoddess Oct 2023 #11

Just as in the Humanities, there is a concern about pupils reading material... malthaussen Oct 2023 #12