brugroffil posted:

That's not how modern pedagogy is, at least in the US. Critical thinking, problem solving, and fundamental understanding is taught over rote memorization and repetition.

and funny enough it causes endless bitching and moaning from idiot boomers and older gen x that things would ever be taught differently from how they learned it!

Xelkelvos posted:

The most recent example is literally Common Core mathematics which supplements and replaces some of the rote memorization with a more fundamental understanding of the mechanics of arithmetic.

A fundamental example is going from teaching something like 398 x 5 as (300 x 5) + (90 x 5) + (8 x 5) [the old way] to (400 x 5) - (2 x 5) [one of the Common Core methods]. They equal the same thing, but the latter is a lot easier to do mentally than the former, even if it seems more complicated at face. It also scales better as 39998 x 5 in the former method has a lot more number juggling while the latter method still has the same amount to juggle.

It's a slow process getting people to understand and accept it, but it's getting there.

Xelkelvos posted:

The most recent example is literally Common Core mathematics which supplements and replaces some of the rote memorization with a more fundamental understanding of the mechanics of arithmetic.

A fundamental example is going from teaching something like 398 x 5 as (300 x 5) + (90 x 5) + (8 x 5) [the old way] to (400 x 5) - (2 x 5) [one of the Common Core methods]. They equal the same thing, but the latter is a lot easier to do mentally than the former, even if it seems more complicated at face. It also scales better as 39998 x 5 in the former method has a lot more number juggling while the latter method still has the same amount to juggle.

It's a slow process getting people to understand and accept it, but it's getting there.

im depressed lol posted:

this really saddens me as there seems to be a big initiative in public education to get children taught programming concepts at a younger and younger age. which sounds awesome, but would be disturbing if it crippled their critical thinking skills in this manner. e.g. denial of the natural world vs. a know-it-all, simplified model of the world where variables can be easily accounted for

are arguments like this going to be the default once people who did not grow up with a smartphone die off?

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398 x 5 as (300 x 5) + (90 x 5) + (8 x 5) [the old way] to (400 x 5) - (2 x 5) [one of the Common Core methods]

Xelkelvos posted:

The most recent example is literally Common Core mathematics which supplements and replaces some of the rote memorization with a more fundamental understanding of the mechanics of arithmetic.

A fundamental example is going from teaching something like 398 x 5 as (300 x 5) + (90 x 5) + (8 x 5) [the old way] to (400 x 5) - (2 x 5) [one of the Common Core methods]. They equal the same thing, but the latter is a lot easier to do mentally than the former, even if it seems more complicated at face. It also scales better as 39998 x 5 in the former method has a lot more number juggling while the latter method still has the same amount to juggle.

It's a slow process getting people to understand and accept it, but it's getting there.

Krinkle posted:

Xelkelvos posted:

The most recent example is literally Common Core mathematics which supplements and replaces some of the rote memorization with a more fundamental understanding of the mechanics of arithmetic.

A fundamental example is going from teaching something like 398 x 5 as (300 x 5) + (90 x 5) + (8 x 5) [the old way] to (400 x 5) - (2 x 5) [one of the Common Core methods]. They equal the same thing, but the latter is a lot easier to do mentally than the former, even if it seems more complicated at face. It also scales better as 39998 x 5 in the former method has a lot more number juggling while the latter method still has the same amount to juggle.

It's a slow process getting people to understand and accept it, but it's getting there.

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Back in 1999, a relatively unknown 28-year-old entrepreneur named Elon Musk was filmed on the streets of Palo Alto with his fiancée, Justine Wilson, for a CNN special acknowledging the burgeoning technology bubble emanating from Silicon Valley. The young Musk actually looks something like what one imagines an old Musk may look like a few decades from now—hunched, balding, poorly dressed in an oversized blazer stolen from an AARP ad.

THS posted:

i cant do even basic math without a calculator im literally retarded. and i work in a STEM field

Cannon_Fodder posted:

Does this STEM field include linear fluctuations, fluid dynamics and spherical support?

Cannon_Fodder posted:

Does this STEM field include spherical support?

Tunicate posted:

The thing is that after a certain point in math you no longer do any arithmetic.

Krinkle posted:

Xelkelvos posted:

A fundamental example is going from teaching something like 398 x 5 as (300 x 5) + (90 x 5) + (8 x 5) [the old way] to (400 x 5) - (2 x 5) [one of the Common Core methods].

cheese eats mouse posted:

I think my ACT math scores would have been better if I was taught common core. I'm mad no one taught me that way until I saw it going around the internet.

At least now I tip around 20% solidly.

Comrayn posted:

the car company is bad

orcinus posted:

AHAHAhahahahahah

My gf just posted this on FB:



I loving swear i didn't talk about it with her at all.
Didn't say anything about the Q3 report, didn't say the number seems dubious.
Didn't even mention it.

Edit: Obviously we're both on big oil's payroll, but independently.

orcinus posted:

AHAHAhahahahahah

My gf just posted this on FB:



I loving swear i didn't talk about it with her at all.
Didn't say anything about the Q3 report, didn't say the number seems dubious.
Didn't even mention it.

Edit: Obviously we're both on big oil's payroll, but independently.

THS posted:

i cant do even basic math without a calculator im literally retarded. and i work in a STEM field

Teal posted:

I'm sure that if we have a global collapse that'll somehow destroy all calculators and yet won't kill me outright, I'll have the while to refresh my numbers stacking.

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Tesla will host a "family night" to thank Gigafactory employees this weekend, with an outdoor screening of "Cars 3," plus bouncy houses, food trucks and concessions.

Proteus Jones posted:

That's the good stuff, right there.

Gazpacho posted:

all car manufacturers have cars in buffer lots at various times, and this has been fodder for some breathless (but false) lefty e-mail forwards that manufacturing is a racket, general demand for cars has crashed and nobody's reporting it, etc etc. gotta do better than that

Moridin920 posted:

Someone should have just taught you the test answer tricks because if you are actually having to do math on the ACT or SAT you're more than likely loving up something basic.

It's wild how coach-able those tests are.