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From about 5th grade on all of my math teachers were also athletic coaches. They would just read the book verbatim and then grade against the answer sheets in the teachers edition of the book. I am not good at math.
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Aug 8, 2019 03:36
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Shamino posted:From about 5th grade on all of my math teachers were also athletic coaches. They would just read the book verbatim and then grade against the answer sheets in the teachers edition of the book. I remember the year I started really falling behind in math: 7th grade, taught by the loving golf coach.
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Aug 8, 2019 14:12
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I stopped at high school calculus because my principal taught it, had just learned it over the summer, and frequently had to take the class to meet with her teacher because she didn't understand it.
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Aug 8, 2019 14:17
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Catholic schools in the early-early 90's had literal nuns laying the foundations for kids' literacy in math. I learned to add & subtract numbers by counting imaginary dots, one by one. The dots were arranged like this:  For each number you come across, you tap your pencil on each dot and double-dot while counting up or down in your head. "one, two, three, four, five, tap, tap, tap, tap..." This process is excruciatingly slow, and the only release was moving on to memorize multiplication tables. Those loving flash card games. I did this "counting by dots" method up through college. I was an engineering major.
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Aug 8, 2019 15:20
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I stopped at high school calculus because my principal taught it, had just learned it over the summer, and frequently had to take the class to meet with her teacher because she didn't understand it. Your first calculus class is where you should finally be deriving all those geometry formulas that seemed to drop out of thin air by integrating over the shape, and so on. Now that you know how to do an integral you can actually see why the area of a sphere is 4/3πr^3 by integrating over the shape of a sphere, and so on. A bad calc101 class is a shame.
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Aug 8, 2019 15:32
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I swear I learned more about budgeting from playing X-COM than I ever did from school.
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Aug 8, 2019 15:42
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:Your first calculus class is where you should finally be deriving all those geometry formulas that seemed to drop out of thin air by integrating over the shape, and so on. you typically don't do integrations over 3D objects until a third or fourth semester course that is not introductory calc material at all
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Aug 8, 2019 15:45
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NoWake posted:Catholic schools in the early-early 90's had literal nuns laying the foundations for kids' literacy in math. I learned to add & subtract numbers by counting imaginary dots, one by one. What in the holy hell is this?
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Aug 8, 2019 16:18
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I swear I learned more about budgeting from playing X-COM than I ever did from school. I learned about the power of small percentages from Diablo II. Turns out having 1% life steal on your barbarian who hits a million times a minute is actually a lot!
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Aug 8, 2019 17:30
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 Six of these in the fridge, one containing cool whip, the other five containing leftovers
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Aug 8, 2019 19:24
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josh2112 posted:
My grandma does this. My dad has so many of those due to her bringing food over sometimes. It's a habit I picked up too. Why throw away a perfectly usable container?
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Aug 8, 2019 20:05
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NoWake posted:Catholic schools in the early-early 90's had literal nuns laying the foundations for kids' literacy in math. I learned to add & subtract numbers by counting imaginary dots, one by one. i'm laughing so hard at this, holy poo poo lol. what loving lunatic came up with this diamond
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Aug 8, 2019 20:05
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I went to public school and I remember something similar to that from when I was in like 1st or 2nd grade (mid 80's) but it was just for basic addition and it was definitely not taught after that point. may have just been an individual teacher's idea not an official school curriculum thing
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Aug 8, 2019 20:08
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Framboise posted:My grandma does this. My dad has so many of those due to her bringing food over sometimes. because you already have two dozen of them in the pantry
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Aug 8, 2019 20:42
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Fitzy Fitz posted:because you already have two dozen of them in the pantry Meh. They're not super durable, so you have more when they inevitably break.
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Aug 8, 2019 20:45
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and more to give leftovers to the grandkids!
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Aug 8, 2019 20:54
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But like how much Cool Whip does one household need over the course of a normal week? Why are you buying and consuming so much Cool Whip that you have a surplus of empty Cool Whip containers to fill with leftovers?
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Aug 8, 2019 20:57
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Just buy a commercial whip cream dispenser for $40 and make your own with good milk/creamwr and it'll taste 1000x better. Also you can huff the nitrogen cartridges for a good time.
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Aug 8, 2019 21:09
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I don't think it's a boomer thing to reuse plastic containers. I do it with big Greek yogurt containers, which sane people should go through at a much faster rate than Cool Whip. My mom, although technically a boomer I guess, is not one in spirit because she forbade poo poo like Cool Whip in the house. I don't think I've ever had it. Is it just fake whipped cream?
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Aug 8, 2019 21:10
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cool whip is better than whipped cream. fight me
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Aug 8, 2019 21:12
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Nothing wrong with reusing containers, but I don't see a point if you already have a small set of tupperware.
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Aug 8, 2019 21:12
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Shamino posted:Just buy a commercial whip cream dispenser for $40 and make your own with good milk/creamwr and it'll taste 1000x better. Also you can huff the nitrogen cartridges for a good time. nitrous oxide, not nitrogen
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Aug 8, 2019 21:13
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Nothing wrong with reusing containers, but I don't see a point if you already have a small set of tupperware. It's useful for dumping leftovers off on dinner guests since you don't have to worry about getting the container back. My in laws do this a lot with sour cream tubs and stuff.
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Aug 8, 2019 21:15
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Nothing wrong with reusing containers, but I don't see a point if you already have a small set of tupperware. You use them for things that aren't food. You keep your food in the tupperware.
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Aug 8, 2019 21:16
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DorkusMalorkus posted:But like how much Cool Whip does one household need over the course of a normal week? Why are you buying and consuming so much Cool Whip that you have a surplus of empty Cool Whip containers to fill with leftovers? Grandma likes making pie okay Full disclosure: I don't like cool whip much. The real stuff kicks its rear end in every way
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Aug 8, 2019 21:40
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josh2112 posted:
When you consider all the plastic poo poo that get thrown away, re-using these isn't horrible. They are also good to store kid's craft supplies in.
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Aug 8, 2019 21:49
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josh2112 posted:
I grew up with a Mexican babysitter. I can only ever imagine pickled jalapenos in that container.
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Aug 8, 2019 21:50
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My mother in law thinks that I am constantly being starved so she always makes large batches of beef stew and pho everytime we visit. We've had to get a bin from Costco just to put all the takeout containers of food she forces on us every time.
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Aug 8, 2019 21:56
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Dameius posted:My mother in law thinks that I am constantly being starved so she always makes large batches of beef stew and pho everytime we visit. We've had to get a bin from Costco just to put all the takeout containers of food she forces on us every time. This is the opposite of a problem. Give me all that homemade pho.
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Aug 8, 2019 22:11
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Lactose Is Wack posted:you typically don't do integrations over 3D objects until a third or fourth semester course I did this in high school calc 1, the math teacher and the physics coordinated their classes so we could learn something in the calculus class, then the physics class could use it to do something “practical” Finding electric field strength by calculating the flux through a gaussian surface ( by integrating over a 3d shape) for example.
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Aug 8, 2019 22:46
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Lactose Is Wack posted:you typically don't do integrations over 3D objects until a third or fourth semester course we actually had polynomial division in kindergarten and by grade 4 we derived fourier transformation, shame if it's hard for you 
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Aug 8, 2019 22:49
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my school had math classes too!! (:
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Aug 8, 2019 22:50
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you can learn all that stuff way easier just playing around in a 3d game engine
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Aug 8, 2019 22:53
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Framboise posted:This is the opposite of a problem. Give me all that homemade pho. Nah. That is lunch and dinner for two for 10 days. I need it, apparently I am starving. We do have a ton of containers to spare, though.
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Aug 8, 2019 22:57
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Lord Stimperor posted:we actually had polynomial division in kindergarten and by grade 4 we derived fourier transformation, shame if it's hard for you
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Aug 8, 2019 23:21
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12th grade pre calc class, 1991-92. Everyone in the class has been in AP for most of their time in school but everyone has a D or worse in this one class. Finally one kid spoke up and said, "I don't think you can teach. This entire room is filled with AP honor roll students but we all have D's. Sounds like it's the teacher, not the students". He got sent to the office and his parents called. His parents asked the principal the same thing. As far as I know she did not return the following year. We had coaches teach at my high school but they mostly taught the classes for kids with "behavioral issues".
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Aug 8, 2019 23:35
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It really depends. I've known faculty that were a teacher who happens to take up coaching in one of the school's local teams. That isn't going to be the same as, say, a Coach McGuirk trying to teach Calculus.
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Aug 9, 2019 00:19
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I see we're at the point in the discussion of public education where a bunch of computer programmers show up to shrug their shoulders and say "my education (in a wealthy, overwhelmingly white suburban school district) was fine, what's the problem?"
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Aug 9, 2019 00:40
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Bonzo posted:12th grade pre calc class, 1991-92. Everyone in the class has been in AP for most of their time in school but everyone has a D or worse in this one class. This reminds me of when a professor goes "None of you will get above x grade in my class" as if that's not an awful reflection of their teaching ability.
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Aug 9, 2019 01:21
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Someone a few weeks back said that boomers think that Dirty Harry is the best kind of cop and that more police should act like him. Whelp https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1159614027905081347?s=19
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