Homework Help: To Reiny

Posted by Ms. Sue on Monday, October 13, 2008 at 10:52pm.

I just watched the video you posted the other day. Wow!!! That's scary!

It's far worse than Tom Lehrer's 1960s "New Math."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXx2VVSWDMo&feature=related

http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/newmath.htm

To Reiny - DrBob222, Monday, October 13, 2008 at 11:03pm
Very good. I have all of those old records and I especially like the one on the periodic table.
To Reiny - Reiny, Monday, October 13, 2008 at 11:44pm
I was fortunate to attend the University of Waterloo in its early days, when it was the first University in North America, and as far as I know still is the only university to have a Faculty of Mathematics.

They were a strong advocate of common sense math instruction and greatly influenced the Department of Education in Ontario to stay away from the "silly math" of the time.

Even though in my early years of teaching we had some of those ideas such as doing arithmetic in different bases in the curriculum, I restricted it to base 2, 8 and 16 where it at least had some significance and application in early computer science.

Some of the things I see today is really scary.
- To Reiny - Reiny, Monday, October 13, 2008 at 11:48pm
  <<Some of the things I see today is really scary. >>
  
  Ooops, I guess that is grammatically incorrect.
  
  I could never figure out whether is was correct to say
  
  six and seven IS fourteen or
  six and seven ARE fourteen.
  
  which is it?
To Reiny - Dr Russ, Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 4:19am
six plus seven equals thirteen

but like binary only 50% or 1 in 10 get it
- To Reiny - Reiny, Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 8:30am
  RATS ! you got it, lol
  
  An old "diversion" problem, picked up by watching politicians.

Answer this Question

Related Questions

pre-calc - One day, a controversial video is posted on the Internet that ...
Music - In my music history class we have to write a paper that involves music ...
English - 1. We watched TV for two hours. 2. We watched TV at night/ at the shop...
Video games, entertainment - Is the new video game far cry 3 OK for kids?
english 14 - Pronoun-antecedent agreement 14a. You may rent a movie or a video ...
statistics - Suzie watched 47 random movies from each nearby video store. Is ...
About Mcdonalds--Good bad?(no sites please) - Identify ways in which Mcdonalds ...
com155 - Dinner is good. Dinner was better yesterday. This is the best dinner ...
Math-Can u help me Reiny? - An electronics store surveyed every 8th customer who...
english - Make any necessary corrections to the following paragraph- look for ...

For Further Reading

First Name:
School Subject:
Answer: