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Muso
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| sugar wrote: | | Students should not be set up to fail any subject. |
You can't change the way they were born.
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notageek
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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Actually I believe all humans are equal. They come with equal amount of brain. Everyone. No exceptions.
It is how they use their brain, in nurturing, in education (not just reading textbooks), that defines them.
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John-Boy
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| sugar wrote: | | At a secondary level, anyway, students shouldn't be failing because they feel they do not have a 'natural aptitude' for a certain subject, but rather, they should be able to apply the skills they have developed in order to learn to other subjects. |
Can't teach height, as someone once said.
Also used to like art, cookery (in a parallel universe I'd have gone into a kitchen) - but maths, always been a sticky one,
always appreciated and been in awe of the abstract nature of the subject, but I can't do what I see some on here
and other forums do. Nowdays dyscalculia may have been mentioned, or more likely it's 'cause I'm crap at the subject matter.
As much as I'd like, I cannot take one area that I'm good at, and donate to another. I passed, just - others will fail
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aidanjt
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| John-Boy wrote: | | As much as I'd like, I cannot take one area that I'm good at, and donate to another. I passed, just - others will fail |
You probably weren't taught how to do it. Most people who are good at math either learned themselves, or were retaught correctly in university because it's vital for the sciences.
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BoneKracker
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John-Boy isn't good at math because he was coddled as a child. If he had been instructed by Mrs. R., my 4th grade math teacher, who cracked me across the knuckles with a yardstick because I wanted to do it "my way", he'd be good at math. He might have developed a sadistic streak too, but he'd be good at math. 
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Prenj
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | He might have developed a sadistic streak too, but he'd be good at math. |
Haha. No wonder Wall Street looks like it does  |
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Prenj
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In 2nd year of high school my family moved to another town, mid year. After I smacked the local bully in the face to gain my freedom it became apparent that the class I landed in was doing trigonometry since the start of the year, and in my previous school it was supposed to start mid-year.
It also became apparent that the teacher was sadistic fuck who derived pleasure from watching you sweat in front of blackboard with something like "sin^2A*4cos^3B*(sin^2B - cos^A) =" and looking like a human question mark. He had no issues of leaving you there for 30 mins as if the time would somehow grant you magical powers of math godhood. I flunked math that year, depressed as fuck. My dad found a teacher for private lessons, so instead of windsurfing that year, I spent 2 weeks learning it from scratch, and passed the exam in august. The teaching method did all the difference, and all of the sudden it wasn't that hard at all. |
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John-Boy
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | John-Boy isn't good at math |
And the odd thing is, I'm currently employed in a semi accountancy function.
Still can't work that one out
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| John-Boy wrote: | | BoneKracker wrote: | | John-Boy isn't good at math |
And the odd thing is, I'm currently employed in a semi accountancy function.
Still can't work that one out |
Simple: you're a masochist. 
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