Math isn't taught by memorization anymore. As I said originally: Math teaching is getting better. You guys think that Math is being taught like it used to when you were learning it. It isn't.
100% correct. I know I wasn't doing fractions in 3rd grade. Kids are doing much more advanced math now, and doing it better, no matter what the sticks-in-the-mud commenters here say. I attribute it to Common Core, but there might be other factors in play.
To learn to read you first need to be able to recognize letters. You don't start out by reading books. To learn to write, you start out by writing letters. You don't write books. Michelangelo didn't start sculpting by creating David in the first week. You need to put in the work and stop needing to be entertained 100% of the time.
Actually that isn't true. Education is getting better. Your lies are apparent: common core is incompatible with logic-based mathematics? That doesn't even make sense. Kids can no longer fail? Really? Is that why the testing that everyone hates shows that many kids ARE FAILING? And no we never "used to teach ALL subjects" in this manner. I went to public school in the US in the 80s and it was a disaster. Fortunately it is getting better.
It isn't a single point of data. I did research on Common Core. The teaching "experts" who came up with "New Math" were not seeing anyone. They were idiots and ruined math for decades. The Common Core people know what they are doing, because they are people who actually learned Math and Engineering at some point in their lives. The techniques are paying off. Go research to techniques if you are interested. My guess is you are too lazy to do it.
Math IS a chore. Learning IS a chore. People need to realize that not everything in life is "fun". You need to do the chores in order to get work done. Too many people don't want to put in the work.
I have noticed that Public education is getting better in the US. They are now teaching Math much more effectively (at least at the elementary school level). At first I thought the Common Core was dumb after my elementary school child showed me what he was doing, but after researching the teaching methods I know understand the reasoning behind techniques they are using. Plus the efforts of Code.org to introduce our kids to logic and programming at an elementary school level is really helping with all of their studies. Amazingly teaching basic logic helps in all aspects of life. Kudos to the Common Core people and Code.org. Too frequently the teaching "experts" are teaching the wrong techniques. Anyone who grew up learning "new math" (Venn diagrams, etc) in the early and mid 1980s public schools knows what I mean by that!
Wow. You guys are ignorant of recent history: there was an Internet even before BBS, Prodigy and AOL. They weren't the Internet. Amazingly the Internet existed before Facebook! Or Ads!
Who knows? Are they going to know what features they need to add in 2017, now? What if a critical bug crops up? Wait 6-8 weeks? Why do they have large backlog of features? It is a browser.
The idea of having a "regular schedule" of releases is stupid. What if you didn't have any compelling features to add? You are just going to do a release because that is what the release schedule says? Here is a hint guys: writing software is not supposed to be just to keep you busy. It is supposed to deliver a product that is useful.
Not really. You are "looking", but you don't have to move the eye to look. In fact there doesn't need to be "letters" at all. You are just "looking at" light/dark patterns and measuring the pupil response. No thinking required, which makes it perfect for people like me who don't like to think.
Nice hype, but you are measuring the pupil size, there is no brain-computer interface, and you aren't "thinking" of letters. The system would work without letters. Ridiculous.
This one is probably slightly different: rather than trying to track where you are looking, you examine the pupil change to try and find out what letter they are looking at. Sounds terribly unreliable and expensive.
First they came for the trolls...I didn't care because I wasn't a troll.
Then they came for the terrorists...I didn't care because I wasn't a terrorist.
Then they came for the guys with ironic beards...and I started caring.
This is perfect. We now don't even need to move our arms to watch netflix. The peak of civilization has now been achieved.
Oh, by the way, this type of system has already been deployed for paraplegics for many years. And no, you aren't "literally thinking" about letters, you are "looking" at letters. Learn what "literally" means.
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Math isn't taught by memorization anymore. As I said originally: Math teaching is getting better. You guys think that Math is being taught like it used to when you were learning it. It isn't.
Oh you are too lazy to look it up yourself? Imagine that! Start here: http://www.corestandards.org/a...
Do you say learning "Histories" or "Chemistries" or "Biologies"? No. So why would you say "Maths"?
At least in Math they don't do the inane memorization anymore in Public school. Sorry. You guys don't have up to date knowledge of modern Education.
100% correct. I know I wasn't doing fractions in 3rd grade. Kids are doing much more advanced math now, and doing it better, no matter what the sticks-in-the-mud commenters here say. I attribute it to Common Core, but there might be other factors in play.
Actually I don't. This is the best place to devote my expert analysis on all topics.
To learn to read you first need to be able to recognize letters. You don't start out by reading books. To learn to write, you start out by writing letters. You don't write books. Michelangelo didn't start sculpting by creating David in the first week. You need to put in the work and stop needing to be entertained 100% of the time.
Actually that isn't true. Education is getting better. Your lies are apparent: common core is incompatible with logic-based mathematics? That doesn't even make sense. Kids can no longer fail? Really? Is that why the testing that everyone hates shows that many kids ARE FAILING? And no we never "used to teach ALL subjects" in this manner. I went to public school in the US in the 80s and it was a disaster. Fortunately it is getting better.
It isn't a single point of data. I did research on Common Core. The teaching "experts" who came up with "New Math" were not seeing anyone. They were idiots and ruined math for decades. The Common Core people know what they are doing, because they are people who actually learned Math and Engineering at some point in their lives. The techniques are paying off. Go research to techniques if you are interested. My guess is you are too lazy to do it.
Math IS a chore. Learning IS a chore. People need to realize that not everything in life is "fun". You need to do the chores in order to get work done. Too many people don't want to put in the work.
I have noticed that Public education is getting better in the US. They are now teaching Math much more effectively (at least at the elementary school level). At first I thought the Common Core was dumb after my elementary school child showed me what he was doing, but after researching the teaching methods I know understand the reasoning behind techniques they are using. Plus the efforts of Code.org to introduce our kids to logic and programming at an elementary school level is really helping with all of their studies. Amazingly teaching basic logic helps in all aspects of life. Kudos to the Common Core people and Code.org. Too frequently the teaching "experts" are teaching the wrong techniques. Anyone who grew up learning "new math" (Venn diagrams, etc) in the early and mid 1980s public schools knows what I mean by that!
That doesn't seem like a good idea. Spam harvesters, spam phone calls from recruiters/sales/etc.
Yes there was. You were just ignorant of its existence.
Wow. You guys are ignorant of recent history: there was an Internet even before BBS, Prodigy and AOL. They weren't the Internet. Amazingly the Internet existed before Facebook! Or Ads!
Amazingly the Internet existed before there was advertising on it. I know, right? Amazing!
100% accurate. Someone understand corporations the the leeches that join a company once it is successful.
Who knows? Are they going to know what features they need to add in 2017, now? What if a critical bug crops up? Wait 6-8 weeks? Why do they have large backlog of features? It is a browser.
The idea of having a "regular schedule" of releases is stupid. What if you didn't have any compelling features to add? You are just going to do a release because that is what the release schedule says? Here is a hint guys: writing software is not supposed to be just to keep you busy. It is supposed to deliver a product that is useful.
Even watching the video made me sick. This ain't gonna work for the vast majority of people.
Not really. You are "looking", but you don't have to move the eye to look. In fact there doesn't need to be "letters" at all. You are just "looking at" light/dark patterns and measuring the pupil response. No thinking required, which makes it perfect for people like me who don't like to think.
Nice hype, but you are measuring the pupil size, there is no brain-computer interface, and you aren't "thinking" of letters. The system would work without letters. Ridiculous.
This one is probably slightly different: rather than trying to track where you are looking, you examine the pupil change to try and find out what letter they are looking at. Sounds terribly unreliable and expensive.
First they came for the trolls...I didn't care because I wasn't a troll.
Then they came for the terrorists...I didn't care because I wasn't a terrorist.
Then they came for the guys with ironic beards...and I started caring.
This is perfect. We now don't even need to move our arms to watch netflix. The peak of civilization has now been achieved.
Oh, by the way, this type of system has already been deployed for paraplegics for many years. And no, you aren't "literally thinking" about letters, you are "looking" at letters. Learn what "literally" means.
Yeah right. These telemarketers would starve if they didn't scam us. We might be judgemental, but you are just a plain asshole.