I don't remember "nano" and "daymo" is impossible (you can't have a y without a following vowel like that)
The original poster (Saeger) doesn't know accepted romanizations. As others have pointed out, "daymo" means (de mo). I admit to being stumped by "nano", however; my best guess is that the poster meant (nani o), which means "what" as a direct object.
I also think that algebra is pushed on students before they are cognitively ready. The average middle school student should go as far as evaluating expressions, variable substitutions, (MAYBE) 1 step equations and (MOST importantly) reading an expression (ie. 3x + 4 means three times x plus 4). The rest of their time should be spent brushing up and applying their ARITHMETIC skills, such as working with/reducing fractions.
While I do not agree entirely with the above comment, when I helped teach a core college course in complex analysis and differential equations for a couple of years, the second most common error in students' homework was, in fact, failure to add fractions correctly. (Most common were errors in reading their own handwriting once equations became sufficiently complex students could no longer keep them in their heads. Third most common were chain rule errors.)
I really like the suggestion of merging science with math. I would love to see those two subjects team taught over a double period.
I fully agree with this point. When I was teaching math, from the college upperclassman level down to my work with learning-disabled highschool students, I always tried to devote a half hour of each session to actual, practical applications of what they were learning (not simplified, "made up" problem--there are already too many of those in textbooks).
Students realized that they could already use what they had studied to solve reasonably complex real world problems and that math is not just stuff they are forced to learn.
By using real, unsimplified problems, students also learned a little about what is not solvable through certain techniques, which is also very important to know.
And most importantly, I found that students became more interested in what they were learning when they found that they could do real, useful stuff with it.
Of course, this requires that a teacher (with a merged science/math class, either or, hopefully, both the math and science teacher) know considerable material beyond that in the math textbook. I ran into this problem myself when teaching graduate students: since I was often only a half-step in front of those students, I was frequently unable to come up with additional practical examples to supplement the textbooks.
The situation is actually even more complicated than that report indicates. The report does cover the problem of ß/ss both being captilized as "SS". (An oft-cited problematical example is "Maße" and "Masse", which are distinct words with different meanings, but which are both usually uppercased as "MASSE".) However, it doesn't cover the fact that "Maße" is sometimes uppercased as "MASZE" (depends upon dialect and formality), and I have also seen a few Austrian documents with "Masze" uppercased as "MASSE".
What happens if these words are used in filenames under Windows? Arguably erroneously, Windows will allow a file "MASSE" to co-exist in the same directory with "Maße" even though it differs only in case (and it will even allow a file named "Masze" to exist that directory, too).
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I made the stupid assumption that since Java was a new language and that horrible problems with random number generators were well known that Sun would actually provide a decent RNG. Nope: just as badly flawed as the C one.
Oh? Do you have some information on weaknesses in Java's SecureRandom class (e.g., its seeding, although it sounds like correlation is more of a concern for you than seeding) that you would care to discuss? The literature I've read indicates that SecureRandom is decent, especially for cross-platform code, except possibly for the seeding (which is admittedly a big exception), although there are known to be better algorithms.
FYI, Here is an IBM article discussing generating random numbers in Java and C.
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- Students realized that they could already use what they had studied to solve reasonably complex real world problems and that math is not just stuff they are forced to learn.
- By using real, unsimplified problems, students also learned a little about what is not solvable through certain techniques, which is also very important to know.
And most importantly, I found that students became more interested in what they were learning when they found that they could do real, useful stuff with it. Of course, this requires that a teacher (with a merged science/math class, either or, hopefully, both the math and science teacher) know considerable material beyond that in the math textbook. I ran into this problem myself when teaching graduate students: since I was often only a half-step in front of those students, I was frequently unable to come up with additional practical examples to supplement the textbooks.The situation is actually even more complicated than that report indicates. The report does cover the problem of ß/ss both being captilized as "SS". (An oft-cited problematical example is "Maße" and "Masse", which are distinct words with different meanings, but which are both usually uppercased as "MASSE".) However, it doesn't cover the fact that "Maße" is sometimes uppercased as "MASZE" (depends upon dialect and formality), and I have also seen a few Austrian documents with "Masze" uppercased as "MASSE". What happens if these words are used in filenames under Windows? Arguably erroneously, Windows will allow a file "MASSE" to co-exist in the same directory with "Maße" even though it differs only in case (and it will even allow a file named "Masze" to exist that directory, too).
Oh? Do you have some information on weaknesses in Java's SecureRandom class (e.g., its seeding, although it sounds like correlation is more of a concern for you than seeding) that you would care to discuss? The literature I've read indicates that SecureRandom is decent, especially for cross-platform code, except possibly for the seeding (which is admittedly a big exception), although there are known to be better algorithms.
FYI, Here is an IBM article discussing generating random numbers in Java and C.