black Friday mathematically challenged young lady

[Skippy722]

There is a thing called dyscalculia, a form of dyslexia with numeracy skills. Reading is no problem, but understanding mathematical concepts are a real problem. I found out a bit late, but have developed strategies to cope...although avoiding anything to do with calculation is still the first option. Not as common as dyslexia, but one of my daughters, and her daughter have it too. Also a high amount of lefthandedness in our family too...me and 2 out of 4 kids.

Like those with dyslexia, we tend to end up in trades, not because we are stupid, far from it, but we think in 3D pictures, which is extremely useful in manual jobs. My daughter is a dressmaker, being able to see a 3D garment in her head is a bonus.

So ignore 3 pages of people putting down those with inadequate numeracy skills, I'm sure they are not perfect, but we won't make them feel bad about it.

This... this makes a lot of sense. I always struggled with math, yet I’m a machinist!

I don't think high schoolers today are capable of fourth grade math from 40 years ago. High school graduates can't make change today. Never mind multiplicative discounts; they can't add or subtract.

High schoolers today can’t do math in their heads because they quite literally grew up with a calculator in their pocket 24/7/365 and the entirety of the internet’s wealth of knowledge at their finger tips. At this point, you don’t even need the calculator... “Hey Siri, what’s 20% off $300?”

 

[aquariuscsm]

This... this makes a lot of sense. I always struggled with math, yet I’m a machinist!

High schoolers today can’t do math in their heads because they quite literally grew up with a calculator in their pocket 24/7/365 and the entirety of the internet’s wealth of knowledge at their finger tips. At this point, you don’t even need the calculator... “Hey Siri, what’s 20% off $300?”

So true!! When I was in school we weren't allowed to have a calculator, plus we had to show ALL of our work or we'd have to do the entire assignment over again.

I remember having a class called "Consumer Math" (sometime during the 7th-9th grade) where they taught us "common sense-street smart" math. Basically the kind've math you'll actually use in the real world in every day life to survive.

 

[Wolf359]

I don't think high schoolers today are capable of fourth grade math from 40 years ago. High school graduates can't make change today. Never mind multiplicative discounts; they can't add or subtract.

There's still some smart people out there. I rented an apartment out to people who understood quantum mechanics and when I looked up their bio, they had studied under Peter Shor who came up with Shor's algorithm. It's what's used in quantum computing. They were surprised I knew anything about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's_algorithm

 

[Leo99]

There's still some smart people out there. I rented an apartment out to people who understood quantum mechanics and when I looked up their bio, they had studied under Peter Shor who came up with Shor's algorithm. It's what's used in quantum computing. They were surprised I knew anything about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's_algorithm

Sheldon and Leonard?

 

[Wolf359]

Sheldon and Leonard?

Just grad students from MIT.

 

[01rangerxl]

Alabama is “The Crimson Tide”. Abbreviated, “Tide”.

Harvard is the “Crimson”. Abbreviated “Crimson”.

Crimson, without the Tide, is most certainly, and uniquely, Harvard.

Even in Alabama.

Sorry, bud...

It was what us plebeians call a joke, hence the and making fun of Alabama pronunciations.

You may be overestimating the number of Alabamians who are even aware Harvard has sports. Huntsville isn't exactly representative of the state overall.

 

[Motu]

This... this makes a lot of sense. I always struggled with math, yet I’m a machinist!

What annoys me this many years down the track...I was on a technical course at highschool, taking engineering, theory and practical, so in the shop on lathes, and also Technical Drawing. So why couldn't they connect maths to technical ? Show us how we could use algebra and geometry in the practical world. Technical Drawing is geometry, a machinist uses algebra... but no, the intellectuals would never stoop to the practical world.

 

[Skippy722]

What annoys me this many years down the track...I was on a technical course at highschool, taking engineering, theory and practical, so in the shop on lathes, and also Technical Drawing. So why couldn't they connect maths to technical ? Show us how we could use algebra and geometry in the practical world. Technical Drawing is geometry, a machinist uses algebra... but no, the intellectuals would never stoop to the practical world.

Amen to that. I struggled so hard with geometry, more specifically trig.... my teacher in high school was an engineer. He talked in this monotone voice that would lull you to sleep and didn’t understand why some of us didn’t get it since all he did was teach out of the book, he wouldn’t explain it in a different way. It wasn’t till my junior year (1st year we could take shop class) that my shop teacher, an actual machinist, explained it in a way that just clicked in my brain.

 

[JHZR2]

Alabama is “The Crimson Tide”. Abbreviated, “Tide”.

Harvard is the “Crimson”. Abbreviated “Crimson”.

Crimson, without the Tide, is most certainly, and uniquely, Harvard.

Even in Alabama.

Sorry, bud...

“They call Alabama the ‘Crimson Tide’... Call me Deacon Blues...”

 

[Astro14]

Steely Dan is often playing on my shop Bluetooth speakers!

 

[Astro14]

It was what us plebeians call a joke, hence the and making fun of Alabama pronunciations.

You may be overestimating the number of Alabamians who are even aware Harvard has sports. Huntsville isn't exactly representative of the state overall.

Fair enough. Couldn’t tell. Sorry to answer your post like it was serious.

Wonder how they would react to discovering that Yale invented College football....And that Yale and Harvard’s rivalry in football predates Alabama even playing the game?

The fact that they copied an Ivy League sport?

That Harvard built the largest football stadium in the US, when it opened in 1903...before Alabama had even played the game?

Spent some time in Anniston, AL
- a truly great week building a Garand. But that’s another story...

 

[Leo99]

Amen to that. I struggled so hard with geometry, more specifically trig.... my teacher in high school was an engineer. He talked in this monotone voice that would lull you to sleep and didn’t understand why some of us didn’t get it since all he did was teach out of the book, he wouldn’t explain it in a different way. It wasn’t till my junior year (1st year we could take shop class) that my shop teacher, an actual machinist, explained it in a way that just clicked in my brain.

I majored in math in college. My daughter asked me to help her with some freshman trig last year. Nope. She got through it.

Back in high school I took a electronics vocational class. I did not fit in. Lol. After I saw Ohms law basics was going to take a month and I already knew most of the material from independent study. We basically went around the room with each student reading a paragraph from the textbook aloud and some students were not good readers. It was brutal. The teacher wouldn't let me go faster at my own pace so I dropped the class. I think he was glad to get rid of me.

 

[01rangerxl]

Wonder how they would react to discovering that Yale invented College football....And that Yale and Harvard’s rivalry in football predates Alabama even playing the game?

The fact that they copied an Ivy League sport?

That Harvard built the largest football stadium in the US, when it opened in 1903...before Alabama had even played the game?

Bear Bryant invented football, just like Henry Ford invented cars!