I'm failing 1st grade math

[Gman]

If you liked Hidden Figures, check out October Sky too.

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I saw that almost 20 years ago. Very different movies and I liked Hidden Figures much more. Maybe it's because I'm a computer nerd?

[O2HeN2]

Maybe it's because I'm a computer nerd?

Nope, cant be it, computer nerd here, too.

But yeah, HF was far more fast paced and technical. OS was more about self determination and discovery. I guess what appealed to me was the "project based learning" aspect, which is the way I learn best.

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[Aloha_Shooter]

I actually think "October Sky" was a better movie. A lot of overstatement in the not-so-hidden agenda behind "Hidden Figures".

[clodhopper]

Tell me again what was the name of the white woman that was on the moon landing trips?

Yeah, another non-sequitur and equally as unimportant. Unless you have some kind of time machine, you're stuck in the past forever. The perfect solution to not having to recognize any positive change since then.

At the current point in history, white women don't count as much as any person of color. Or at least that is what the pop culture and media are pontificating. It doesn't matter that minorities were instrumental in the moon landings. That will be overlooked and the "important" issue will be that no black astronauts were there. Or transgender ones either I would guess.

It is all pretty much horsehockey. The color of the skin of the people who were involved matters almost nothing in the fact that the US was able to get the job done. Cherry picking history and beating on the milestones of history simply because it doesn't fit your modern sense of fairness is stupid and petty. But people still do it thinking they are making some sort of improvement.

[BushMasterBoy]

I liked the alien movie "Arrival". The final message decoded was "Use the weapon." It took a specially trained linguist to figure out what the alien message was. There was some drama about the message as "weapon" and "tool" meant the same to the aliens.

[BladesNBarrels]

History - the study of past events, particularly in human affairs.

Past Events is the key.

[MrPrena]

I am not saying teaching "remainder" is wrong or bad idea. They had to do that, because they usually do whole number during those grades.
As for me, 3rd (to some 4th) grade division was very confusing.

15/4 = 3 R3

[ray1970]

Ugh. 15/4 = 3.75. There is no remainder.

On a related note, I always hated fractions. The concept always seemed so antiquated even when I was in school. Do other countries still use or teach fractions? I?d much rather just use decimals.

[BladesNBarrels]

Okay, shifting the conversation just a little.
All the young people of today will only be using their calculator function on their phone.
Math will be just to check if they made some input error by powers of 10.
So, what does the calculator say when 15/4 = Well, it says 3.75.
Remainder calculations fail.
Any Questions?

[JTP80]

Though I do remember in 3rd grade, my teacher told us the reason we had to learn long division was because we wouldn't always have a calculator on us to punch in the numbers.