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- May 7, 2012
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PEMDAS. That's all. ;)
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Not quite there as she has no idea about the P or the E, just a chat about how math is awesome because you can change the order of some things to make it easier to figure out some problems, and sometimes you can't because of the language and rules of math. Fun convo w the five year old, who has just a very basic understanding of multiplication and division :)
Side note - I actually kind of hate "PEMDAS" because it implies that multiplication must be done before division and addition must be done before subtraction, when they (M/D and A/S) are actually equal functions in the order of operations scale.
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- May 7, 2012
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You lost me at implies :p....all I know is I passed all my math courses in high school and college with flying colors and minimal tears, and fortunately my kids have inherited dh's math gene so things have gone smoothly in that area. I actually do not remember ever hearing about pemdas before my oldest hit 6th or 7th grade.
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We were never taught pemdas... we were just told "This is the order you do this stuff in. Learn it and do it that way."
The main reason I don't like pemdas is it allows room for idiots. Sometimes when those things pop up on Facebook and I (stupidly) read the comments, I almost want to cry. There is ALWAYS some moron commenting "Duh. Y'all are so stupid. There are no parentheses so pemdas doesn't apply here! It goes from left to right."
Like...wtf... who taught these people math? :mad: :confused:
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The main reason I don't like pemdas is it allows room for idiots. Sometimes when those things pop up on Facebook and I (stupidly) read the comments, I almost want to cry. There is ALWAYS some moron commenting "Duh. Y'all are so stupid. There are no parentheses so pemdas doesn't apply here! It goes from left to right."
Like...wtf... who taught these people math? :mad: :confused:
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The people who taught them were probably just as horrified on a daily basis :D.
Although at work (middle school, helping kids with homework), one of my former colleagues actually told something wrong to a kid regarding order of operations. She said that it was fine to do addition before multiplication (there were no parentheses...). Explaining it countless times to 6-9th graders is apparently not frustrating enough, adults have to come in and actually tell THE WRONG DAMN THING to confuse them a little more... She didn't care that the textbook confirmed what I said (nor that math was my undergrad major for that matter), she kept saying "I've always done it like that, and got the points, so it can't be wrong !". This incident had me wonder what could happen when she was supervising study time alone. What often did she give kids wrong answers ? That thought is a bit scary...
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Maybe this is because i'm not 14, but I cannot wait until the word "haters" dies. I'm so sick of seeing it. I'm sine with it in mixes & voiceovers, but on shirts, bows, backpacks, ughhhhhh it's overkill. and while i'm being a grandma about what the kids are into, another trend I want to see go is the graffiti style text all over everything
- Feb 5, 2011
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I think its mean to mislead them into what to expect. We condition a lot and to make them think that's not a huge part of their new life isn't fair and will be harder to adjust to a few weeks later in my opinion. We start day 1. I usually like to start with running and the leg workout that is posted on the boards. It's a good "welcome to cheerleading" conditioning. Of course we progressively get harder, but day 1 still isn't exactly easy. Our returners will definitely be feeling it too. Lots of encouragement and some competitive conditioning games thrown in too.
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- Feb 5, 2011
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I have my teams hooked to our Facebook page. Instagram will automatically post to your personal timeline unless you tell it not to. You have to go into Instagram. Click the gear button in the top right corner. Go to share settings. Choose Facebook. In the share to option change it from your timeline to the pages timeline.
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- May 21, 2011
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THANK YOU :)
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Quick question, so I did the first part and then I got to this screen. Do I click okay and then change it to the page's timeline? Or should it be under that little globe drop down menu, because I don't see the fan page listed there. Or do I click skip? Lol sorry for all the questions, just want to make sure I don't accidentally set it as my page and then have to figure out how to reverse it.
