Begging the question (allegedly) means taking a point of contention and assuming it is fact. Or making a conclusion before defining the problem. You are asking (or forcing or begging) the listener to agree with your premise if they want to engage you on the conclusion.
If I understand it correctly, it is like asking someone a question like "when did you stop beating your wife?" To ask that is to beg the question of whether someone is married and whether they ever started beating their wife. The responder cannot formally answer that question, because there is no "when did you stop" if you never started.
No we don't. Winter time is standard time. We give up an hour in the spring and it gets paid back in the fall. In return, we get an "extra" hour of usable daylight time every evening for half the year.
That was a comment in response to the point about cultural differences affecting some students negatively, and that being a putative reason why common core is no good. But the reality is that far more students are "left behind" because teachers on the ground are asked/forced/allowed to create their own curriculums, and not every teacher is good at that. If every student in the world could meet the basics of a common core curriculum, it would be a HUGE improvement. The goal is not to make the best students better, it is to close the gap between the worst students (and teachers) and the good ones.
And you missed my point. If it takes all year to teach the kids these basic concepts, then common core does no harm. They weren't going to learn much more than that anyway. But there is nothing about common core that prevents teachers from meeting the standards and then going beyond that if the students can handle it. There is nothing wrong with teaching to the test. If the test covers all the concepts the kids need to learn, that's a good thing.
The other problem with leaving curriculum decisions in the individual schools or even classrooms is that there is little to no continuity between schools and grade levels. Having common goals for every age level makes it easier for kids to move between schools, districts or even states without falling behind or being a year ahead. I cannot understate what a problem this is in the education world. Each year level's curriculum depends on what the kids learned the previous year. If we can standardize that, we can make everyone's job easier and end up with better results. If that hurts some teachers' feelings, tough shit. Teaching isn't about them; it is about the students.
The point is to teach the little buggers how to USE math. Applied mathematics.
And really, if you are going to criticize a test for first graders, you should probably not use the wrong word for principal.
The fact that the administrators don't understand the questions is exactly why we need something like common core. I knew what they meant, and I'm just a moron who barely graduated high school. I'd hate to have boneheads like that in charge of educating my kids.
I think it is saying that the cup can hold 6 pennies (or needs to have 6 pennies put into it), and you already have 5. How many more pennies to have a cupful?
If they did that, the kid could just count or guess how many are missing. The question is trying to see if the kid understands how to convert 5 + x = 6 into 6 - 5 = x.
But that's not the question being asked. The question being asked is "how many do you have to add to 5 to get 6?" Filling in a missing part is a higher concept than simple subtraction. The student has to first figure out how to solve for x, and THEN do the subtraction. While the picture could be done much better, they are trying to get the kid to think abstractly and not just count.
The test is copyright Pearson Education. So, not written by the feds. While this test is not great, it is much easier to revise and improve the one test than it is to try and make sure a quarter of a million teachers are all getting their lesson plans right. We are missing good enough in pursuit of perfection. A great teacher can teach great students a whole lot more than the basics. If we try and tailor the curriculum to assume all students and teachers are excellent, we will surely fail. So you have standard tests of basic knowledge, and then let the teachers add to that if they have the time after getting all the kids up to level.
But what do we know? Maybe the text book introduces that iconography during the lessons, and makes perfect sense to the kid.
The tablet computers and the iPad style tablet are completely different products. The iPad is more like a netbook in a different format. The $2000 tablets were full fledged notebook computers with reversible touch screens.
You are out of your mind. Despite what people think, the public still has to vote for people. The public elected Jesse Jackson Jr., and he was in a MENTAL INSTITUTION at the time! They elected another guy who the Democratic party BEGGED people not to vote for, because he was under indictment for corruption. And the people still voted for him. The bosses may have influence, but they don't have the kind of magical powers you seem to think they have.
Anyone who says Obama is a Chicago politician reveals themselves as an ignorant nutjob who hasn't taken the tiny amount of time to read Wikipedia. Obama lived in Chicago, that was about his only connection to the politics of the city. He never held an elected office in city government. Daley, Jesse Jackson and Blagojevich especially wanted nothing to do with him.
So far, my biggest problem with the production is that the sound is too good. They need to equalize it down to sound more like TOS.
The actors did surprisingly well at recreating the action and movement of the original characters. The way Kirk sat in the Big Chair at the beginning was eerie.
No, it's easy because nobody configures their power settings correctly. Look at the different settings available under powercfg. Then export an existing power scheme and dig into it. There is all kinds of stuff in there that greatly affects battery life. Especially on bare installs without chipset/processor specific configurations. Finally, people cheap out on their batteries. How can someone expect a processor with a 65w TDP to run all day on a 6 cell battery?
I would disagree. They became powerful by innovating and being really good at their business-y niche. The faltered when they tried to cater to the masses with cheap phones and "cool" features. If they had stuck to the slightly autistic way of doing things, the Bold 9900 would be 3/16 of an inch thin and have a week of talk time.
Did they really? The information was, at the time the trade was executed, already announced and public
That's the whole point. From their frame of reference, it was not yet public. They executed the trade before they could possibly have gotten the information. By a really, really close margin, yes, but still before it was possible for them to have heard it legitimately. And more importantly, they acted WAY before they could have received the information, processed it and then made the trade.
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A methodology is a collection of methods.
Begging the question (allegedly) means taking a point of contention and assuming it is fact. Or making a conclusion before defining the problem. You are asking (or forcing or begging) the listener to agree with your premise if they want to engage you on the conclusion.
If I understand it correctly, it is like asking someone a question like "when did you stop beating your wife?" To ask that is to beg the question of whether someone is married and whether they ever started beating their wife. The responder cannot formally answer that question, because there is no "when did you stop" if you never started.
There are none. There are no wrong answers in descriptivism, except the right answers.
No we don't. Winter time is standard time. We give up an hour in the spring and it gets paid back in the fall. In return, we get an "extra" hour of usable daylight time every evening for half the year.
That was a comment in response to the point about cultural differences affecting some students negatively, and that being a putative reason why common core is no good. But the reality is that far more students are "left behind" because teachers on the ground are asked/forced/allowed to create their own curriculums, and not every teacher is good at that. If every student in the world could meet the basics of a common core curriculum, it would be a HUGE improvement. The goal is not to make the best students better, it is to close the gap between the worst students (and teachers) and the good ones.
And you missed my point. If it takes all year to teach the kids these basic concepts, then common core does no harm. They weren't going to learn much more than that anyway. But there is nothing about common core that prevents teachers from meeting the standards and then going beyond that if the students can handle it. There is nothing wrong with teaching to the test. If the test covers all the concepts the kids need to learn, that's a good thing.
The other problem with leaving curriculum decisions in the individual schools or even classrooms is that there is little to no continuity between schools and grade levels. Having common goals for every age level makes it easier for kids to move between schools, districts or even states without falling behind or being a year ahead. I cannot understate what a problem this is in the education world. Each year level's curriculum depends on what the kids learned the previous year. If we can standardize that, we can make everyone's job easier and end up with better results. If that hurts some teachers' feelings, tough shit. Teaching isn't about them; it is about the students.
The point is to teach the little buggers how to USE math. Applied mathematics.
And really, if you are going to criticize a test for first graders, you should probably not use the wrong word for principal.
The fact that the administrators don't understand the questions is exactly why we need something like common core. I knew what they meant, and I'm just a moron who barely graduated high school. I'd hate to have boneheads like that in charge of educating my kids.
I think it is saying that the cup can hold 6 pennies (or needs to have 6 pennies put into it), and you already have 5. How many more pennies to have a cupful?
That might be the worst part of the problem; the before and after aren't differentiated properly.
I'm not sure I would call that logical.
Tests aren't meant to accomplish anything. They are meant to test whether anything has been accomplished.
If they did that, the kid could just count or guess how many are missing. The question is trying to see if the kid understands how to convert 5 + x = 6 into 6 - 5 = x.
The concept is very basic algebra: 5 + x = 6, solve for x.
But that's not the question being asked. The question being asked is "how many do you have to add to 5 to get 6?" Filling in a missing part is a higher concept than simple subtraction. The student has to first figure out how to solve for x, and THEN do the subtraction. While the picture could be done much better, they are trying to get the kid to think abstractly and not just count.
The test is copyright Pearson Education. So, not written by the feds. While this test is not great, it is much easier to revise and improve the one test than it is to try and make sure a quarter of a million teachers are all getting their lesson plans right. We are missing good enough in pursuit of perfection. A great teacher can teach great students a whole lot more than the basics. If we try and tailor the curriculum to assume all students and teachers are excellent, we will surely fail. So you have standard tests of basic knowledge, and then let the teachers add to that if they have the time after getting all the kids up to level.
But what do we know? Maybe the text book introduces that iconography during the lessons, and makes perfect sense to the kid.
The tablet computers and the iPad style tablet are completely different products. The iPad is more like a netbook in a different format. The $2000 tablets were full fledged notebook computers with reversible touch screens.
You are out of your mind. Despite what people think, the public still has to vote for people. The public elected Jesse Jackson Jr., and he was in a MENTAL INSTITUTION at the time! They elected another guy who the Democratic party BEGGED people not to vote for, because he was under indictment for corruption. And the people still voted for him. The bosses may have influence, but they don't have the kind of magical powers you seem to think they have.
Bullshit. A candidate can get on the ballot by submitting the paperwork along with 5000 signatures.
Anyone who says Obama is a Chicago politician reveals themselves as an ignorant nutjob who hasn't taken the tiny amount of time to read Wikipedia. Obama lived in Chicago, that was about his only connection to the politics of the city. He never held an elected office in city government. Daley, Jesse Jackson and Blagojevich especially wanted nothing to do with him.
Not as the practice is currently done.
It's all green and scaly on the inside.
So far, my biggest problem with the production is that the sound is too good. They need to equalize it down to sound more like TOS.
The actors did surprisingly well at recreating the action and movement of the original characters. The way Kirk sat in the Big Chair at the beginning was eerie.
No, it's easy because nobody configures their power settings correctly. Look at the different settings available under powercfg. Then export an existing power scheme and dig into it. There is all kinds of stuff in there that greatly affects battery life. Especially on bare installs without chipset/processor specific configurations. Finally, people cheap out on their batteries. How can someone expect a processor with a 65w TDP to run all day on a 6 cell battery?
I would disagree. They became powerful by innovating and being really good at their business-y niche. The faltered when they tried to cater to the masses with cheap phones and "cool" features. If they had stuck to the slightly autistic way of doing things, the Bold 9900 would be 3/16 of an inch thin and have a week of talk time.
Did they really? The information was, at the time the trade was executed, already announced and public
That's the whole point. From their frame of reference, it was not yet public. They executed the trade before they could possibly have gotten the information. By a really, really close margin, yes, but still before it was possible for them to have heard it legitimately. And more importantly, they acted WAY before they could have received the information, processed it and then made the trade.
The trouble with being a superpower is that there is no winning. If you act, one side hates you more. If you don't act, the other side hates you more.
In addition, to the extent that al qaida has limited abilities to strike is the direct result of fighting them and taking out their leadership.