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"Abe" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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: >My niece recently graduated from a prestigious university. Talked to
: >her the other day, she was complaining that her new Honda was getting
: >only 14 mpg. Turns out she was dividing the miles driven by the total
: >gas tank capacity, not the actual amount of gas it took to fill the
: >tank. Took several minutes of explanation before she realized her
: >error. Apparently she was following the instructions of a friend from
: >school. All that theoretical calculus sure came in handy. Where's
: >the Gas Mileage 101 course when you need it...
: Doesn't sound like a problem with her ability to do the actual
: calculation. She knew to divide, and divided correctly. Rather, her
: problem seems to be in reasoning.

Yeah, that would be a deficiency of common sense.

I mean, come on.

Paul <shaking head and sighing>

Waiving the right to remain silent, "Brian Smith"
<Halifax@NovaScotia.Canada> said:

> "Steve" <lto@tin.inv> wrote in message
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>> My niece recently graduated from a prestigious university.
>> Talked to her the other day, she was complaining that her new
>> Honda was getting only 14 mpg. Turns out she was dividing the
>> miles driven by the total gas tank capacity, not the actual
>> amount of gas it took to fill the tank. Took several minutes
>> of explanation before she realized her error. Apparently she
>> was following the instructions of a friend from school. All
>> that theoretical calculus sure came in handy. Where's the Gas
>> Mileage 101 course when you need it...
>
> That's something that she should have picked up in grade three
> at the latest.

A common problem when they're being taught by aging, leftist Hippies.

George Bush is BAD!!!

Gasoline is BAD!!!

Tenure is GOOD!!!

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"Larry J." <usenet2@DE.LETE.THISljvideo.com> wrote in message
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> Waiving the right to remain silent, "Brian Smith"
> <Halifax@NovaScotia.Canada> said:
>
> > "Steve" <lto@tin.inv> wrote in message
> > news:vjg0j1lqug8up9p7olhotsgqrde56tm6s1@4ax.com...
> >> My niece recently graduated from a prestigious university.
> >> Talked to her the other day, she was complaining that her new
> >> Honda was getting only 14 mpg. Turns out she was dividing the
> >> miles driven by the total gas tank capacity, not the actual
> >> amount of gas it took to fill the tank. Took several minutes
> >> of explanation before she realized her error. Apparently she
> >> was following the instructions of a friend from school. All
> >> that theoretical calculus sure came in handy. Where's the Gas
> >> Mileage 101 course when you need it...
> >
> > That's something that she should have picked up in grade three
> > at the latest.
>
> A common problem when they're being taught by aging, leftist Hippies.
>
> George Bush is BAD!!!
>
> Gasoline is BAD!!!
>
> Tenure is GOOD!!!
>
> --

C'mon now... How do you spin politics in a calc class?
/Now/ who has no common sense?

Waiving the right to remain silent, "remco"
<whybcuzREMOVE@THISyahoo.com> said:

> C'mon now... How do you spin politics in a calc class?
> /Now/ who has no common sense?

My point being that they aren't taught the skills they need to have,
just a "liberal" agenda.

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JerryL wrote:

> "Steve" <lto@tin.inv> wrote in message
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>
>>My niece recently graduated from a prestigious university. Talked to
>>her the other day, she was complaining that her new Honda was getting
>>only 14 mpg. Turns out she was dividing the miles driven by the total
>>gas tank capacity, not the actual amount of gas it took to fill the
>>tank. Took several minutes of explanation before she realized her
>>error. Apparently she was following the instructions of a friend from
>>school. All that theoretical calculus sure came in handy. Where's
>>the Gas Mileage 101 course when you need it...
>
>
> That's allright. My step-granddaughter thinks that:
> Paris-London is one city.
> Brooklyn is a state.
> Harvard University is in Harlem.
> A quarter to the hour is 25 minutes to the hour (after all, a quarter is 25
> cents).

Some good ones I've heard over the years:

One friend insisted there's butter in peanut butter...

A girl my wife works with thought Bellingham was a state (it's a town in
north-west Washington state). She also couldn't figure out why all
those cars from Washington (DC) were driving around when she visited the
State of Bellingham...



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Daniel Ganek wrote:

> Steve wrote:
>
>> My niece recently graduated from a prestigious university. Talked to
>> her the other day, she was complaining that her new Honda was getting
>> only 14 mpg. Turns out she was dividing the miles driven by the total
>> gas tank capacity, not the actual amount of gas it took to fill the
>> tank. Took several minutes of explanation before she realized her
>> error. Apparently she was following the instructions of a friend from
>> school. All that theoretical calculus sure came in handy. Where's
>> the Gas Mileage 101 course when you need it...
>
>
> I don't things have changed that much. When I was in college 40 years ago
> there were a lot of kids who just didn't get math especially how to
> apply it
> to real life situations. As a matter of fact these days primary and
> secondary
> schools are teaching a lot more practical things than I learned 50 years.
> Back then we were give all kinds of made up problems that had little to do
> with real life. Today, they teach the young kids about money and making
> change. The problems my kids get in grade school are a lot more relevant
> than I ever had.

Heck, when I was in 9th grade, we had a whole semester's course called
Consumer Education, where we learned about such things as the difference
between simple and compound interest, how to calculate mortgages, how
revolving credit works... being in Canada, all forms of Metric/Imperial
conversion were covered... all sorts of practical, day-to-day
applications of math.


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"Larry J." <usenet2@DE.LETE.THISljvideo.com> wrote in message
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> Waiving the right to remain silent, "remco"
> <whybcuzREMOVE@THISyahoo.com> said:
>
> > C'mon now... How do you spin politics in a calc class?
> > /Now/ who has no common sense?
>
> My point being that they aren't taught the skills they need to have,
> just a "liberal" agenda.
>


That's just silly: for any group to have an agenda, they'd have to agree
first. They can't agree themselves out of a wet paper bag.



I am not a political animal, but "no child left behind" - /COME ON NOW/ -
what a joke! While I am not blaming the current regime for the education
mess, can it truly be said that what was recently done is helpful?



How many in this country - educated during a non-liberal period - are
functionally illiterate? They can read but cannot understand while they are
doing so. They can write, but not without making many errors. They cannot do
simple math. We're not even talking higher education, but just high school
level.

How many kids educated in /liberal/ countries surpass our kids in math and
sciences?



So having a left or right agenda has nothing to do with education.



The real problem is that our kids are not educated correctly from early on.
There are many truly dedicated teachers out there, but some are just there
for a paycheck - and we are not allowed to weed them out. Good teachers are
not identified and thus are not being paid what they truly deserve - some
never even become teachers for that reason.


We cut school programs like music, shop, arts, special science programs --
all the stuff that teaches you more than just stupid facts.

On top of that, our student/teacher ratio is ridiculous. Material is often
old and lacking. We expect our schools to teach our kids manners or
discipline. We complain when our kids get two hours of homework because they
need too much help and we don't have that kind of time.

This is because we spend an average of 10 minutes 'quality time' with our
kids each day - a term invented to ease a parent's concience, btw. We spend
too much time at work, spend way too little time with our family and pay
other people to take care of our kids.



Not a formula for parental success.

It largely is due to the type of society we are. (remember why Rome was
bowled over? Or does one only learn about that in a liberal school system



Let me get off my soapbox now and get back to working on my vw bug..



Remco

Matt Ion <soundy@moltenimage.com> wrote:
>Some good ones I've heard over the years:
>A girl my wife works with thought Bellingham was a state (it's a town in
>north-west Washington state). She also couldn't figure out why all
>those cars from Washington (DC) were driving around when she visited the
>State of Bellingham...

Not to mention the number of US citizens who think you need a passport
to visit New Mexico...

"Steve" <lto@tin.inv> wrote in message
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> Matt Ion <soundy@moltenimage.com> wrote:
> >Some good ones I've heard over the years:
> >A girl my wife works with thought Bellingham was a state (it's a town in
> >north-west Washington state). She also couldn't figure out why all
> >those cars from Washington (DC) were driving around when she visited the
> >State of Bellingham...
>
> Not to mention the number of US citizens who think you need a passport
> to visit New Mexico...

Chuckle- look at NM's license plates. Pretty sure they are the only state
that feels the need to put 'USA' on the plate. Probably urban myths, but
I've heard tales of rental companies refusing one-way rentals to NM, because
they don't do international rentals, and old-time long distance operators
trying to charge international rates to Taos, etc.

aem sends...

remco wrote:
> "Steve" <lto@tin.inv> wrote in message
> news:vjg0j1lqug8up9p7olhotsgqrde56tm6s1@4ax.com...
> > My niece recently graduated from a prestigious university. Talked to
> > her the other day, she was complaining that her new Honda was getting
> > only 14 mpg. Turns out she was dividing the miles driven by the total
> > gas tank capacity, not the actual amount of gas it took to fill the
> > tank. Took several minutes of explanation before she realized her
> > error. Apparently she was following the instructions of a friend from
> > school. All that theoretical calculus sure came in handy. Where's
> > the Gas Mileage 101 course when you need it...
>
> College is just a mechanism to teach you how to teach yourself, IMO --
> college does not somehow magically makes you smarter.

But she couldn't teach herself how to figure out the problem.