Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!/cd6lVY8Z/mQ7QUEKAKGKw.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Cretin Pat Dolan perseveres Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 11:07:36 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <62449C68.65A6@ix.netcom.com> References: <62415C01.2718@ix.netcom.com> <62435475.266D@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="52996"; posting-host="/cd6lVY8Z/mQ7QUEKAKGKw.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 220330-8, 03/30/2022), Outbound message Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:581408 Odd Bodkin wrote: > > The Starmaker wrote: > > Odd Bodkin wrote: > >> > >> The Starmaker wrote: > >>> The Starmaker wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Odd Bodkin wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> Prokaryotic Capase Homolog wrote: > >>>>>> On Friday, March 25, 2022 at 1:16:03 PM UTC-5, The Starmaker wrote: > >>>>>>> Odd Bodkin wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Tell that to my 5th grade math teacher. > >>>>>>> I would be happy to tell that to your 5th grade math teacher, what's her name? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> They don't call it "algebra" in the fifth grade. But fifth-graders > >>>>>> are definitely introduced to the concept of finding unknown > >>>>>> values in equations, which they solve using "guess and check" > >>>>>> methods. > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> My 5th grade teacher introduced the variable x and let us apply all the > >>>>> standard do-the-same-operation-on-both-sides thing we’d been doing with > >>>>> fractions for a while. > >>>> > >>>> "My"???? > >>>> > >>>> I like the con using the beginning sentence with a ...My > >>>> > >>>> My soup is cold. > >>>> My 5th grade teacher > >>>> > >>>> Then you are up to 'your-old-tricks' again with..."teacher introduced the variable x " > >>>> > >>>> It's like you are just following this script just in case someone trys to trip you up... > >>>> so you can spring it on everybody: > >>>> > >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=10nlwPFH7uA > >>>> > >>>> you haven't changed...always with the con and cover. > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> Odd Bodkin — Maker of fine toys, tools, tables > >>> > >>> Going by what you wrote: > >>> > >>> "My 5th grade teacher introduced the variable x and let us apply all the > >>> standard do-the-same-operation-on-both-sides..." > >>> > >>> > >>> It appears your only 5th grade math teacher you EVER had was this youtube teacher: > >>> > >>> > >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=10nlwPFH7uA > >>> > >>> > >> > >> See? Not unusual at all. And you thought no 5th grade teacher taught > >> algebra when a lot of them do. > > > > > > "a lot"???? Where did you come up with that 'large number' when I only > > pointed to one? You must have used Drake's Equations.. > > > > Well, my teacher was not the one in the video, so there at least 2. My 5th > grade teacher is now retired, and the video was directed at other teachers, > so she was addressing someone who is not my teacher. So there are three. > And Drake’s equation says that only 1 out of 10,000 teachers will post a > YouTube video about their work, and so there are at least 10,002. That > sounds like a lot to me. > > -- > Odd Bodkin -- maker of fine toys, tools, tables I can understand there is a lot of 5th grade math teachers that need to learn how to teach algebra.. so, you're saying you learn fractions in the 4th grade? -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.