what did you get on the test, Dexter?
Don't ask.
If this keeps up, you may be required to attend summer school!
HAHAHAHAH! "summer school" is a myth. Like "the Boogie man"
In our high school (early ‘60s), summer school was mostly for the academic geeks to get a required course out of the way so they’d have time to take something else during the school year. I did it three summers in a row.
I took algebra in summer school after my first year at junior college so I wouldn’t have to take any more math in school. (Wanted to take basic or practical math, or whatever they called it, but no classes were available.) The city bus driver, who was my best friend’s uncle, teased me because he thought I’d flunked math. After studying like a fiend, checking and rechecking papers, and having to have the finished test pried from my frantic hands (nearly), I managed to make 100 on the final. When I told the bus driver, he nearly passed out.P. S.: Later I had to take statistics courses up the wazoozie while getting my second master’s in Junior College Teaching with a Specialty in Psychology.
MY math misfortune in HS was taught by a freshly-made female teacher and so, most of us boys came close to failing, for she just taught ‘The Rules’ and gave no concepts as examples.And, as we all know, ‘us boys’ think in spatial concepts, whereas ‘most girls’ think of math by rote & memorization. Don’t bother attacking me as a sexist moron, for you’d be insulting morons, but in the Army, I had a male tutor showme his ’50’s version of “Math Made Easy”.. Ex; sun angles, length of shadow, height of tower, stuff like that. In my days, I’ve found out that the best present one can give a daughter or a niece is a Stanley Tape Measure or a torque wrench. I should shut up now, right??
The dean of Mechanical Engineering called me into his office, explained only about a third even of engineers could think in math, therefor wanted me to go for Masters. I thanked him but needed a job to pay off my debt. Went back later but too many distractions.Still have a hard time understanding how so many have so little understanding of math, logic, false assumptions, the difference between coincidence and causation, …
David Huie Green PrepareBeforeOrRegretLater about 10 years ago
Myth busters ahead
krys723 about 10 years ago
Its a myth that I had to go through back in fifth grade
Dani Rice about 10 years ago
Well, if nothing else, he’s obviously not going to win that trip to Summer Camp.
DaveBj about 10 years ago
In our high school (early ‘60s), summer school was mostly for the academic geeks to get a required course out of the way so they’d have time to take something else during the school year. I did it three summers in a row.
Gokie5 about 10 years ago
I took algebra in summer school after my first year at junior college so I wouldn’t have to take any more math in school. (Wanted to take basic or practical math, or whatever they called it, but no classes were available.) The city bus driver, who was my best friend’s uncle, teased me because he thought I’d flunked math. After studying like a fiend, checking and rechecking papers, and having to have the finished test pried from my frantic hands (nearly), I managed to make 100 on the final. When I told the bus driver, he nearly passed out.P. S.: Later I had to take statistics courses up the wazoozie while getting my second master’s in Junior College Teaching with a Specialty in Psychology.
unca jim about 10 years ago
MY math misfortune in HS was taught by a freshly-made female teacher and so, most of us boys came close to failing, for she just taught ‘The Rules’ and gave no concepts as examples.And, as we all know, ‘us boys’ think in spatial concepts, whereas ‘most girls’ think of math by rote & memorization. Don’t bother attacking me as a sexist moron, for you’d be insulting morons, but in the Army, I had a male tutor showme his ’50’s version of “Math Made Easy”.. Ex; sun angles, length of shadow, height of tower, stuff like that. In my days, I’ve found out that the best present one can give a daughter or a niece is a Stanley Tape Measure or a torque wrench. I should shut up now, right??
David Huie Green PrepareBeforeOrRegretLater about 10 years ago
The dean of Mechanical Engineering called me into his office, explained only about a third even of engineers could think in math, therefor wanted me to go for Masters. I thanked him but needed a job to pay off my debt. Went back later but too many distractions.Still have a hard time understanding how so many have so little understanding of math, logic, false assumptions, the difference between coincidence and causation, …