Post #156,156
5/20/04 10:30:20 PM
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ARRGG!! Homework again!!!!
IT'S NOT THAT TOUGH!!!
Find the area of a rectangle. Measurements in fractions. Find the perimeter. Do the next problem.
It has been 4 hours. We are done 5 problems. There are 3 more to go.
And THEN she needs to study for her science test. The one that she "forgot" to bring home the study note, so someone scanned them in and emailed them to her.
At this point a problem takes about 15 minutes. It should take about 2. I see the end. I pray for the end. Except now she is doing stupid mistakes in math (with a calculator!) since it is late and we are tired.
She has been avoiding this for a week. She is in a workgroup of several kids, all as lazy as her. They turned in a worksheet that was 100% wrong. She buried it. The redo is due tomorrow. She claimed not to understand how to do it.
The instructions, with CLEAR examples, were in her bookbag.
ARRGGG!!!!!
She then had the guts to try to tell me she does not need to learn it because she would never use it in real life. I corrected her. She is using it right now. It is keeping me from killing her.
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Post #156,160
5/20/04 10:56:59 PM
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announce age
this is where I show them the help wanted ads and the fuckyou button on th cslculator(middle finger}
thanx,
bill
Time for Lord Stanley to get a Tan
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Post #156,166
5/20/04 11:12:58 PM
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Post #156,236
5/21/04 2:39:54 PM
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Time for some "Grunt Work" on the Weekend
In exchange for homework tutoring, she needs to clean house, wash dishes, help weed the flower beds, mow.
Then politely remind her then, that people who don't get advanced educations end up doing these "boring" jobs the rest of their lives.
My father started a 2 year landscaping project at age 13, and I mowed, weeded flower bed, painted houses, etc. as chores from about age 11. It was the best "real life" lesson I could have ever had. By the time I graduated from high school, I was ready for college.
I really didn't want to end up mowing the rest of my life, so it was worth it.
Glen Austin
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Post #156,237
5/21/04 2:40:11 PM
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Time for some "Grunt Work" on the Weekend
In exchange for homework tutoring, she needs to clean house, wash dishes, help weed the flower beds, mow.
Then politely remind her then, that people who don't get advanced educations end up doing these "boring" jobs the rest of their lives.
My father started a 2 year landscaping project at age 13, and I mowed, weeded flower bed, painted houses, etc. as chores from about age 11. It was the best "real life" lesson I could have ever had. By the time I graduated from high school, I was ready for college.
I really didn't want to end up mowing the rest of my life, so it was worth it.
Glen Austin
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Post #156,238
5/21/04 2:40:12 PM
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Time for some "Grunt Work" on the Weekend
In exchange for homework tutoring, she needs to clean house, wash dishes, help weed the flower beds, mow.
Then politely remind her then, that people who don't get advanced educations end up doing these "boring" jobs the rest of their lives.
My father started a 2 year landscaping project at age 13, and I mowed, weeded flower bed, painted houses, etc. as chores from about age 11. It was the best "real life" lesson I could have ever had. By the time I graduated from high school, I was ready for college.
I really didn't want to end up mowing the rest of my life, so it was worth it.
Glen Austin
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Post #156,239
5/21/04 2:40:19 PM
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Time for some "Grunt Work" on the Weekend
In exchange for homework tutoring, she needs to clean house, wash dishes, help weed the flower beds, mow.
Then politely remind her then, that people who don't get advanced educations end up doing these "boring" jobs the rest of their lives.
My father started a 2 year landscaping project at age 13, and I mowed, weeded flower bed, painted houses, etc. as chores from about age 11. It was the best "real life" lesson I could have ever had. By the time I graduated from high school, I was ready for college.
I really didn't want to end up mowing the rest of my life, so it was worth it.
Glen Austin
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Post #156,240
5/21/04 2:40:20 PM
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Time for some "Grunt Work" on the Weekend
In exchange for homework tutoring, she needs to clean house, wash dishes, help weed the flower beds, mow.
Then politely remind her then, that people who don't get advanced educations end up doing these "boring" jobs the rest of their lives.
My father started a 2 year landscaping project at age 13, and I mowed, weeded flower bed, painted houses, etc. as chores from about age 11. It was the best "real life" lesson I could have ever had. By the time I graduated from high school, I was ready for college.
I really didn't want to end up mowing the rest of my life, so it was worth it.
Glen Austin
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Post #156,241
5/21/04 2:40:21 PM
5/21/04 2:42:57 PM
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Oops
In playing with my son with the beanbag and slow response, I accidentally posted this about 6 times.
My son wants to play some more, so I'll get off now. (I'm working from home because he's sick, ear infection. )
Edited by gdaustin
May 21, 2004, 02:42:57 PM EDT
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Post #156,243
5/21/04 2:41:52 PM
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Time to start blocking dupe posts :-P (new thread)
Created as new thread #156242 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=156242|Time to start blocking dupe posts :-P]
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Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
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Post #156,245
5/21/04 2:46:46 PM
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Time to stop drinking so much caffeine. :-)
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Post #156,246
5/21/04 2:53:46 PM
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did someone say coffee?
[link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=148742|Post #148742]
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Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
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Post #156,187
5/21/04 2:48:53 AM
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"never use it in real life"
The whole 'I'll never use it in real life' thing was the major reason that sapped any interest I had in the subject. And dare I say, all these years down the track, I'm right.
I must confess that I've never had to calculate the volume of a sphere, solve a quadratic equation, or do whatever it is one does with big lumps of calculus, since 1989. In Years 11 and 12 I wouldn't have taken maths (the final two years, when we had the option to do so) if I'd had the courage.
Having said that, for a 12 year old, there is still plenty of maths to learn that you will use for the rest of your life...
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #156,192
5/21/04 3:27:46 AM
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Re: "never use it in real life"
Hmm.
And you worked for a bank....:-)
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Post #156,193
5/21/04 4:55:22 AM
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Still do. But they have these nifty 'computer' things.
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #156,229
5/21/04 2:15:45 PM
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Thank $DEITY for that. Computers make it possible for us to
stop thinking entirely.
bcnu,
Mikem
If you can read this, you are not the President.
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Post #156,233
5/21/04 2:29:13 PM
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That title gave me an error...
\n$ perl -we 'print "Thank $DEITY for that"' \nName "main::DEITY" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1.\nUse of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at -e line 1.\nThank for that\n Better luck next time at finding a belief-system neutral expression... :-P Cheers, Ben To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act
- [link|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20|Nebraska Supreme Court]
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Post #156,235
5/21/04 2:29:53 PM
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How about this?
Thank \\$DEITY for that.
bcnu,
Mikem
If you can read this, you are not the President.
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Post #156,255
5/21/04 4:11:46 PM
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No error there but....
I'm still puzzled at who is supposed to be addressed by that...
Cheers,
Ben
To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act
- [link|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20|Nebraska Supreme Court]
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Post #156,266
5/21/04 5:16:05 PM
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Don't let Her know about that :-)
bcnu,
Mikem
If you can read this, you are not the President.
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Post #156,223
5/21/04 1:39:50 PM
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And I dare say that you don't know what you're missing
As you well know, I went through graduate level math. Which is far more than most people will ever know, or have any desire to know. Most of it is spectacularly useless.
Yet in every single job that I've been in, I've had occasion to use advanced undergrad to graduate level math.
If you have the skill, you see how to apply it. If you don't, then you never realize that you had occasion to use it.
Cheers,
Ben
To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act
- [link|http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1246&Page=1&pagePos=20|Nebraska Supreme Court]
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Post #156,230
5/21/04 2:18:11 PM
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But "pure math" is so much more beautiful than "applied".
No, I don't want to start a debate on it. Just wanted everyone to know that some of us find the real beauty in mathematics before we figure out the exact(?) value of r. ;0)
bcnu,
Mikem
If you can read this, you are not the President.
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Post #156,334
5/22/04 10:47:23 AM
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Re: And I dare say that you don't know what you're missing
How do you explain the beauty of math? What use is a newborn baby?
-drl
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