a piano is not a regular part of a symphony orchestra, but anyways, the piano and oboe would have the same pitch anyways because they stay in tune for professionals. If the oboe is out of tune the conductor will get pissed and help the oboe tune in front of everyone depending on the conductor, which may be the reason they are in tune (fear).
The oboe is the instrument that stays in tune the best, and is the one a Symphony Orchestra tunes too. Most, if not all professional orchestras are Symphony's. So most professionals tune to the Oboe, not the first violin. Tuning starts where all the woodwinds and brass tune, then the oboe plays another A and the strings tune, and the percussion tune somewhere . Of course the woodwinds have to keep using their instruments or they will get cold and be out of tune so they keep playing until the start, while strings only need to warm up their fingers.
Nothing beats a good dark Black, Blue, or BRIGHT Red dry erase marker and a teacher that knows what they are doing. Never use Green, yellow, purple, lt blue... and Most Importantly always make sure to know enough about what is being taught where you are not just copying from notes, use your notes for help if you get stuck, and get a good eraser so the board dosen't get all grimy. Thick paper towels work great for erasers because you can dispose of them when they are all full of fibers so the board stays white. Second Most importantly, pick the tallest kid in class and draw a line across the board at his sitting height so everyone can see the whole of what you are writing. Pick a UNIQUE way to write each letter and stick with it so what you write is easier to read.
Technology should only be used when you absolutely Must use it, which is never for the classes you are teaching, but if you are extremely bad at drawing accurate graphs (I have yet to meet a math teacher remotely good at drawing even straight lines) then you should use technology to help with visualizing the graph when a hand drawn one is not good enough. If you are teaching in college, whee you do not have 3/4 of the time in class to waste, stick with the white board because it will save time.
In my experiences, Technology is great in Homework because theres no assignments to loose, and there will be virtually zero cheating because all the questions can be different but use the same concepts and be graded by a computer. My school uses WebAssign that has other anti-cheating features and the automatic grading stuff. With written homework, the students that don't understand will cheat so they don't lower their grade, and you are free to do whatever you want, punish, or help the people that are struggling. You can wither get them kicked out, or force them to meet with you or the ta to find out why they aren't doing the homework and act appropriately, but remember some students will do anything, lie cheat, steal, bully... to not do homework. There are some students like me who know the stuff already and it is painful to go through all the steps again, and some that just don't get it and need help, not all the people who don't do homework are bad students or bad people.
This comes from a student that just finished most of the Math I will have to take. I have taken 2 similar versions Calculus III, one in high school and one in college, College Discrete Math, 2 Beginning Stats courses: High school(2 college semesters worth of knowledge in high school, and the college one which was a nice repeat of the first semester of high school, and all thats left I think is more differential equations. So I have had it taught both ways (technology, and white board) for the same class (they wouldn't pass me out cause of different topics chosen)
and my pet peeve is when I figures out how to do a like 10 step problem in one easy step and am not allowed to, let them if they can half-ass explain themselves. ie. Use matrices to solve chemical equations or any electrical circuit with resistors, batteries, voltage controlled current sources, current controlled voltage sources.. , and I found an easy way to do dome vector problems by adding a first step: check if point is in plant before finding distance and in my book we did at least 2 or 3 where it was 0, along with other stuff.
maybe I have been misled by those "Evil Republicans", but don't Republicans: Want to tax less and make people free to do whatever they want (not force us to ie: give money to lazy/poor, "save the environment", subsidize corporations to do useless stuff......) Want smaller government and less laws so people can do whatever the hell they want (within reason ie: no killing but you can freely talk about methods to kill someone) Democrats: Want to tell you what to do with your money (ie: tax to waste money on stuff and give it to the poor/lazy) instead of allowing you to choose who gets it (through donations to worthy organizations?) Want to force people to act in certain ways... (force us to use hazardous light bulbs that save a little electricity but cost thousands to cleanup one broken bulb and I wonder where all that mercury ends up?, and don't even get me started on low flow toilets...) Want to dictate what we see and hear whether we want to or not (radio fairness act, big media companies,...) Allow poor/lazy people to sue "Big Companies" and waste our money (court costs) and steal money from legitimate companies due to the lazy/poor persons incompetence (lady puts RV on cruise control and leaves wheel to make a sandwich, RV flips over and she gets $500k a new RV and they update their manual, or hot coffee if ur boring)
now how do you get to democrats/liberals giving us more freedom? and please correct me if I am wrong.:) my first post on Slashdot and maybe my last unless I am confused again
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a piano is not a regular part of a symphony orchestra, but anyways, the piano and oboe would have the same pitch anyways because they stay in tune for professionals. If the oboe is out of tune the conductor will get pissed and help the oboe tune in front of everyone depending on the conductor, which may be the reason they are in tune (fear).
The oboe is the instrument that stays in tune the best, and is the one a Symphony Orchestra tunes too. Most, if not all professional orchestras are Symphony's. So most professionals tune to the Oboe, not the first violin. Tuning starts where all the woodwinds and brass tune, then the oboe plays another A and the strings tune, and the percussion tune somewhere . Of course the woodwinds have to keep using their instruments or they will get cold and be out of tune so they keep playing until the start, while strings only need to warm up their fingers.
Who says they would wait until his body was cold and dead?
Nothing beats a good dark Black, Blue, or BRIGHT Red dry erase marker and a teacher that knows what they are doing.
Never use Green, yellow, purple, lt blue... and Most Importantly always make sure to know enough about what is being taught where you are not just copying from notes, use your notes for help if you get stuck, and get a good eraser so the board dosen't get all grimy. Thick paper towels work great for erasers because you can dispose of them when they are all full of fibers so the board stays white. Second Most importantly, pick the tallest kid in class and draw a line across the board at his sitting height so everyone can see the whole of what you are writing. Pick a UNIQUE way to write each letter and stick with it so what you write is easier to read.
Technology should only be used when you absolutely Must use it, which is never for the classes you are teaching, but if you are extremely bad at drawing accurate graphs (I have yet to meet a math teacher remotely good at drawing even straight lines) then you should use technology to help with visualizing the graph when a hand drawn one is not good enough. If you are teaching in college, whee you do not have 3/4 of the time in class to waste, stick with the white board because it will save time.
In my experiences, Technology is great in Homework because theres no assignments to loose, and there will be virtually zero cheating because all the questions can be different but use the same concepts and be graded by a computer. My school uses WebAssign that has other anti-cheating features and the automatic grading stuff. With written homework, the students that don't understand will cheat so they don't lower their grade, and you are free to do whatever you want, punish, or help the people that are struggling. You can wither get them kicked out, or force them to meet with you or the ta to find out why they aren't doing the homework and act appropriately, but remember some students will do anything, lie cheat, steal, bully... to not do homework. There are some students like me who know the stuff already and it is painful to go through all the steps again, and some that just don't get it and need help, not all the people who don't do homework are bad students or bad people.
This comes from a student that just finished most of the Math I will have to take. I have taken 2 similar versions Calculus III, one in high school and one in college, College Discrete Math, 2 Beginning Stats courses: High school(2 college semesters worth of knowledge in high school, and the college one which was a nice repeat of the first semester of high school, and all thats left I think is more differential equations. So I have had it taught both ways (technology, and white board) for the same class (they wouldn't pass me out cause of different topics chosen)
and my pet peeve is when I figures out how to do a like 10 step problem in one easy step and am not allowed to, let them if they can half-ass explain themselves. ie. Use matrices to solve chemical equations or any electrical circuit with resistors, batteries, voltage controlled current sources, current controlled voltage sources.. , and I found an easy way to do dome vector problems by adding a first step: check if point is in plant before finding distance and in my book we did at least 2 or 3 where it was 0, along with other stuff.
um, troll? (didn't understand again)
maybe I have been misled by those "Evil Republicans", but don't ...) ...)
:) my first post on Slashdot and maybe my last unless I am confused again
Republicans:
Want to tax less and make people free to do whatever they want (not force us to ie: give money to lazy/poor, "save the environment", subsidize corporations to do useless stuff...
Want smaller government and less laws so people can do whatever the hell they want (within reason ie: no killing but you can freely talk about methods to kill someone)
Democrats:
Want to tell you what to do with your money (ie: tax to waste money on stuff and give it to the poor/lazy) instead of allowing you to choose who gets it (through donations to worthy organizations?)
Want to force people to act in certain ways... (force us to use hazardous light bulbs that save a little electricity but cost thousands to cleanup one broken bulb and I wonder where all that mercury ends up?, and don't even get me started on low flow toilets...)
Want to dictate what we see and hear whether we want to or not (radio fairness act, big media companies,
Allow poor/lazy people to sue "Big Companies" and waste our money (court costs) and steal money from legitimate companies due to the lazy/poor persons incompetence (lady puts RV on cruise control and leaves wheel to make a sandwich, RV flips over and she gets $500k a new RV and they update their manual, or hot coffee if ur boring)
now how do you get to democrats/liberals giving us more freedom?
and please correct me if I am wrong.