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2-Year old knows her Geography!
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:04 am
by angelwing
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:20 am
by Squarethecircle
Doesn't surprise me. Children can learn these things; you just have to teach it to them. That's whey most people are so amazed when children do this; they don't take enough of their time to teach it to them. Of course, it does help when the child is bright.
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:26 pm
by JonathanBelles
I'm not suprised either. Just a trend I'm seeing, and no offense to anyone...I think the younger population (under 21) are getting smarter than the rest of the population, however the entire population is getting dumber. Schools are pushing education ealier and earlier. When I was 2, I was reading, when todays population is 2 they are playing on computers, learning math and science. I didnt start addition and subtraction (in school) until the late 1st grade, now they are doing it in Pre-K. How long has it been since Calculus was taught in High School? not that long. My parents only made it to about the equivilent of Algebra 2 in HS. I wont be suprised to see Calculus 2 in HS's within a few years. How long has it been since you had to declare a major in HS? That just started this year in Florida.
Overall, in the future education level will be higher than ever, as they are now compared to the past.
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:35 pm
by Squarethecircle
Unfortunately, a lot of people are screwing it up. While the courses are getting more advanced, a lot of them are more soft. In some schools in my county (and I am in Fairfax, just to remind you), thankfully not mine, they have Algebra 1 in eighth grade that consists entirely of problems like 'X+9=24'. That's subtraction, not algebra.
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:25 pm
by JonathanBelles
Squarethecircle wrote::uarrow: Unfortunately, a lot of people are screwing it up. While the courses are getting more advanced, a lot of them are more soft. In some schools in my county (and I am in Fairfax, just to remind you), thankfully not mine, they have Algebra 1 in eighth grade that consists entirely of problems like 'X+9=24'. That's subtraction, not algebra.
That technically is algebra.
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:46 pm
by brunota2003
southerngale wrote:fact789 wrote:Squarethecircle wrote::uarrow: Unfortunately, a lot of people are screwing it up. While the courses are getting more advanced, a lot of them are more soft. In some schools in my county (and I am in Fairfax, just to remind you), thankfully not mine, they have Algebra 1 in eighth grade that consists entirely of problems like 'X+9=24'. That's subtraction, not algebra.
That technically is algebra.
Very similar problems are in ABeka's Homeschool 1st grade curriculum. Just replace X with an empty box.
Haha, x+9 = 24?
I remember when Algebra "Started" off that easy, we called it "pre-algebra". Then you get into the (x/24) ^ -24 = log(5)28^-2...not fun. Though I'll admit, I like logs somewhat. 4^(2/3) = 5...log(4)5 = (2/3)
Re: 2-Year old knows her Geography!
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:50 pm
by Cookiely
Did you have to remind me of the worst days of my life. Five A's and an F. Five A's and a D. I got an ulcer because of Algebra and Geometry. I went to high school with jugs of antacids, and nearly had a nervous breakdown.
Re: 2-Year old knows her Geography!
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:00 am
by Cyclenall
Cookiely wrote:Did you have to remind me of the worst days of my life. Five A's and an F. Five A's and a D. I got an ulcer because of Algebra and Geometry. I went to high school with jugs of antacids, and nearly had a nervous breakdown.
I guess it's a good thing you didn't take Claculus too or you would have died.
Re: 2-Year old knows her Geography!
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:15 am
by Cryomaniac
Cyclenall wrote: I guess it's a good thing you didn't take Claculus too or you would have died.
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:01 am
by Squarethecircle
brunota2003 wrote:Haha, x+9 = 24?
I remember when Algebra "Started" off that easy, we called it "pre-algebra". Then you get into the (x/24) ^ -24 = log(5)28^-2...not fun. Though I'll admit, I like logs somewhat. 4^(2/3) = 5...log(4)5 = (2/3)
Ack, I learned logs last year in Algebra 1, but I completely forget them now. I suppose I could ask my math teacher after school or something.
And I hate those little carat things. I don't know why, they just make it seem so much more complicated.
And the first one doesn't seem that hard, just evil. My math teacher doesn't believe in that kind of stuff; he says that doing arithmetic is too easy. We have to do formal proofs on math tests. Not hard ones, mind you, but they're harder than most of the other questions I could think of.