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#26 2010-09-03 08:36:37

bobbym
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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

Hi learn2teach;

I am pretty familiar with your school system. I went to Brooklyn Technical High School. People as you know get lazier as technology increases. I am not too optimistic about your attempts to reverse the entire river by yourself. Seems like you are the boy and the dyke. I do wish you the best though and will assist you with specific questions.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#27 2010-09-03 08:58:02

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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

hi learn2teach

I don't know how the grades equate.  That year 10 class was a 'bottom set' ie weakest in the year at math.

Lower down the page you'll find SATs and GCSE papers with a higher level of question.

Bob


Children are not defined by school ...........The Fonz
You cannot teach a man anything;  you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
Sometimes I deliberately make mistakes, just to test you!  …………….Bob smile

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#28 2014-12-19 04:11:15

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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

This poor fellow never returned...


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#29 2014-12-19 04:25:32

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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

Lockhart wrote:

No body can be taught to teach.


'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.

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#30 2014-12-19 04:27:32

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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

pappym wrote:

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#31 2014-12-19 04:29:01

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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

Teaching is a hard job, but I guess being a student is a harder job especially of math


'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.

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#32 2014-12-19 04:37:40

David
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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

Teaching is a Hard Job I'll +1 that.


His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.

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#33 2014-12-19 04:46:56

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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

I had to walk to school 8 miles in the snow through bad neighborhoods where they tried to kill me every day. I had holes in my shoes and a skimpy jacket when it was 15 F out there. Had no money for lunch so I went hungry. Everywhere, no bumpkins allowed the sign said. yea, dem po  kids in NY today they shur gots it tuf.

No computers, no calculators, no tv's, no cell phones, that is what I had. Played in garbage in the street and empty lots where buildings once stood. yea, dem po kids in NY today they shur gots it tuf.

No money for books, not even a lousy 6 dollars to buy the Physics and Chemistry Handbook. When MLK got killed their was a riot at my school. 6000 of us versus about 30000 of the local pukes in the neighborhood. Chains, bats, sticks, teeth and anything else you had was how we pushed our way out of the auditorium and walked home while NYC police dept stood their watching. yea, dem po kids in NY today they shur gots it tuf.

No counselors or anybody to talk you out  of quitting school and ruining your life, nobody cared. pappym constantly being laid off for no reason whatsoever, could not pay the rent. No welfare for bumpkins in the Big Apple. yea, dem po kids in NY today they shur gots it tuf.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#34 2014-12-19 04:52:20

Agnishom
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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

That is a sad story


'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.

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#35 2014-12-19 04:56:25

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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

Heck no! What a ride! Praise the Lord for giving me a free ticket to the Merry Go Round called life.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#36 2014-12-19 04:58:05

Agnishom
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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

Is this your rebuttal to post 31?


'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.

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#37 2014-12-19 05:02:04

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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

It is my satire on the whole affair, since I went to the school system that unfortunate teacher is from.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#38 2014-12-19 05:04:10

Agnishom
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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

What are handbooks?


'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.

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#39 2014-12-19 05:05:18

David
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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

You still haven't answered me, are you from a La Sallian school?


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#40 2014-12-19 05:07:32

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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

What are handbooks?

Huge books that contain gazillions of formulas, ain't you ever seen the Abramowitz and Stegun book.

You still haven't answered me, are you from a La Sallian school?

Nope.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#41 2014-12-19 05:11:02

David
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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

Looking back at the past, how do you feel now that you are 94?


His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.

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#42 2014-12-19 05:14:44

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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

I can not wait to do it all again. I might meet up with Agnishom or you or maybe anonimnystefy.  I will look different but I will be inside.

We might meet on a forum and they will tell me about m and EM. As ole Vartoosh used to say,"And everything back to the beginning..."


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#43 2014-12-19 05:27:53

bobbym
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From: Bumpkinland
Registered: 2009-04-12
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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

In what sense?


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#44 2014-12-19 05:29:04

David
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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

Hmm... What's with the or? Maybe you'll meet 3 of us. I want to be a Dutch speaking person next.


His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.

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#45 2014-12-19 05:34:17

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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

Well yes, you will all be grown men, moderators or administrators and I will be 10 - 13.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#46 2014-12-19 05:35:53

David
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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

Perhaps I will end up being 94 and you being 14 tongue or perhaps it already happened before.


His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.

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#47 2014-12-19 05:38:19

bobbym
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Re: Hello everyone! I want to learn to teach math.

Perhaps it has.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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