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| Started by | umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
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| First post | 2021-09-20 16:39 +0000 |
| Last post | 2021-11-16 12:53 +0000 |
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Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-09-20 16:39 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-09-21 10:05 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-09-22 15:17 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-09-22 18:17 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-09-27 19:07 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-09-28 00:06 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-10-04 15:36 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-10-07 15:59 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-01 18:36 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-05 16:49 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-16 12:52 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-17 12:43 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-23 17:56 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-23 18:21 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy steve pope <spope384@gmail.com> - 2021-09-26 20:18 -0700
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-09-27 00:01 -0700
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-09-27 19:09 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-09-28 05:34 -0700
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-10-04 15:41 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-10-05 16:52 -0700
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-10-07 16:03 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-10-09 15:13 -0700
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-10-12 08:39 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-10-14 15:51 -0700
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-10-14 22:17 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-01 19:46 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-11-02 18:36 -0700
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-16 13:18 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-11-18 06:20 -0800
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-05 17:07 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-16 14:04 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-17 12:46 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-23 17:15 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-23 18:06 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-11-23 20:16 -0800
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-29 19:32 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-29 19:23 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-29 22:48 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-12-06 14:52 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-01 19:44 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-11-02 18:42 -0700
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-05 17:06 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-05 17:05 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-16 14:07 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-01 19:40 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-05 17:04 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-01 19:07 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-11-02 18:50 -0700
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-03 15:22 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-05 16:58 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-16 14:37 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-17 13:00 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-11-18 06:34 -0800
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-23 17:52 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-23 18:17 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-29 20:08 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-30 12:47 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-12-06 14:38 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-12-08 15:04 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-16 14:14 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-16 10:58 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-11-18 07:06 -0800
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-23 17:30 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-11-23 10:58 -0800
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-23 17:59 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-29 19:56 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-30 12:36 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-12-06 14:22 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-29 19:52 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy Freyja <FreyjaW@despam.yahoo.com> - 2021-11-29 12:29 -0800
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-30 12:35 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-12-06 14:21 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-12-08 14:54 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-12-13 15:38 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-12-06 14:08 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-23 17:54 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy Chickpea <chickpea@gmx.co.uk> - 2021-11-27 20:08 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-29 19:57 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy Chickpea <chickpea@gmx.co.uk> - 2022-01-28 10:17 +0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-23 17:25 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-23 17:50 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-29 19:47 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-30 12:41 -0500
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-09-27 19:08 +0000
Re: Busy, busy, busy songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-09-27 13:35 -0400
Re: Busy, busy, busy umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> - 2021-11-16 12:53 +0000
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| From | songbird <songbird@anthive.com> |
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| Date | 2021-11-23 17:50 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <eq707i-2r2.ln1@anthive.com> |
| In reply to | #32526 |
umar wrote: ...teacher and me did not mesh... > That's more or less what soured me on math. I was something of a whiz at > math in high school, and entered college with an AP credit that let me > bypass the introduction to calculus course. But the math course I took > was taught by someone who couldn't communicate effectively with anyone > below Ph.D. level. That's the problem with some of these big-name > universities; their reputation is built on research and scholarship, and > the quality of teaching is a crap shoot. You might get someone who's a > world-class scholar but can't teach worth a damn. > > Anyway, I muddled through that math course but never took another one. i was so naive and had such poor study skills when i got to college, but i also had a major handicap and it was never found out in time before i wasted a lot of effort and money and poor performance. in high school i never had a pre-calculus course, but i did so well on the placement test the college gave during orientation that they put me into the first calculus class. it was a five credit class and i was lost so bad i had no idea what was going on and the instructure for that class was a genius but he couldn't get past my ignorance. i flunked it. i didn't even know i could drop a class. i didn't even know that there was such a class as precalculus, i stuggled through the first one, failed, repeated it, got a C, took the next one, struggled through it but at least i did make it through the class but still didn't know anything about pre-calculus, etc. i was failing the third class in the series when i dropped it and tried again the next quarter. eventually made it through and only had Differential Equations to get through to finally be done with the sequence and i had a great teacher and was actually getting a B in the class when the teacher announced that she had only been filling in for the guy who was supposed to be teaching the class and that he would be taking over. i about hit the roof i was so mad. and the new teacher was not a very good speaker of English and that made it hard to attend lectures, but not only that he got angry if you asked him a question. it was horrible. i finished the class with a D. to say the least all these math classes with poor grades did screw up my grade point average, but i wasn't on any kind of scholarship so eventually i got through, got my degree and that was it. somewhere in there i found some friends in the math depart- ment who were also excellent teachers and i took any of the classes they taught for fun if i could afford it and had the time. so i learned that i could do some kinds of math and do well and i also learned how important it was for me to be able to say no and drop a class if the teacher or subject wasn't working for me. it wasn't until my third time through a computation theory course that i finally started making sense of it but i still only got a C. the book and teacher were both better and some concepts finally leaked into my brain somehow. some topics i just don't learn very easy at all... :( ah, well, good memories now and a lot to learn from and i did my best after that to put into action what i did learn. :) ok, well, rambly mood i guess, ... cold outside. i hope everyone has a nice TG. :) songbird
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| From | umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
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| Date | 2021-11-29 19:47 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnsqabj0.eol.866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
| In reply to | #32533 |
On 2021-11-23, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote: > in high school i never had a pre-calculus course, but i did > so well on the placement test the college gave during orientation > that they put me into the first calculus class. it was a five > credit class and i was lost so bad i had no idea what was going > on and the instructure for that class was a genius but he couldn't > get past my ignorance. Teaching is, ultimately, communication. It's like broadcasting, in that the message needs to be understandable to the listener, or else it won't be understood. Some people can figure things out on their own, but a skill like solving equations needs to be learned by practice. Someone should try packaging it as a game. > eventually made it through and only had Differential Equations to get > through to finally be done with the sequence and i had a great teacher > and was actually getting a B in the class when the teacher announced > that she had only been filling in for the guy who was supposed to be > teaching the class and that he would be taking over. i about hit the > roof i was so mad. and the new teacher was not a very good speaker of > English and that made it hard to attend lectures, Yup, been there. > but not only that he got angry if you asked him a question. He was clearly a poor teacher, then. The questions are how you figure out how well your message is getting through. I wonder if it's possible he didn't understand the material very well himself. Sometimes people get roped into teaching subjects that are not their strongest. My math skills have atrophied considerably over the years for lack of use. I have to think about even the simplest problems these days before arriving at an answer. > ok, well, rambly mood i guess, ... cold outside. i hope > everyone has a nice TG. :) Mine was very nice. I took the train to Maine and spent the holiday with my girlfriend, her sister, and a couple of calico kitties. umar
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| From | songbird <songbird@anthive.com> |
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| Date | 2021-11-30 12:41 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <5c4i7i-mv7.ln1@anthive.com> |
| In reply to | #32550 |
umar wrote: > songbird wrote: ... >> eventually made it through and only had Differential Equations to get >> through to finally be done with the sequence and i had a great teacher >> and was actually getting a B in the class when the teacher announced >> that she had only been filling in for the guy who was supposed to be >> teaching the class and that he would be taking over. i about hit the >> roof i was so mad. and the new teacher was not a very good speaker of >> English and that made it hard to attend lectures, > > Yup, been there. > >> but not only that he got angry if you asked him a question. > > He was clearly a poor teacher, then. The questions are how you figure > out how well your message is getting through. > > I wonder if it's possible he didn't understand the material very well > himself. Sometimes people get roped into teaching subjects that are not > their strongest. no, it was a cultural issue. he wasn't yet familiar with our culture and we had no idea he'd react the way he did until it was too late. i basically shut up and finished the class as best i could, but i really didn't have time for struggling either as i was working and going to school at the same time. > My math skills have atrophied considerably over the years for lack of > use. I have to think about even the simplest problems these days before > arriving at an answer. i'll eventually have to face some of those demons/equations down in a project i might get back to this winter. up until now i've not done much with matrices but the graphics things i need to practice and learn more about involve some of that. >> ok, well, rambly mood i guess, ... cold outside. i hope >> everyone has a nice TG. :) > > Mine was very nice. I took the train to Maine and spent the holiday with > my girlfriend, her sister, and a couple of calico kitties. :) sounds perfect to me. congrats and kudoes and kitties! :) songbird
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| From | umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
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| Date | 2021-09-27 19:08 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnsl45l1.ol8.866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
| In reply to | #32474 |
On 2021-09-27, steve pope <spope384@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello umar and songbird, > > Thanks for checking in. It's good to hear some familar voices here in > the old space. Greetings to you, too! umar
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| From | songbird <songbird@anthive.com> |
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| Date | 2021-09-27 13:35 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <c0c92i-3c3.ln1@anthive.com> |
| In reply to | #32474 |
steve pope wrote: > Hello umar and songbird, > > Thanks for checking in. It's good to hear some familar voices here in > the old space. :) i'm usually around, but if nobody else is talking here it would sound too much like i was talking to myself. and aside from the fact that i've not been dating much in eons so all i have to talk about is gardening and puttering around cooking and cleaning with Mom (she does a lot of cooking for other people and i help out and wash dishes or whatever). for gardening topics i tend to stick to the gardening group and ditto for cooking. the food preservation group has been quiet the past few years so not much gets written there by me any longer. what have you been up to? songbird
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| From | umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
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| Date | 2021-11-16 12:53 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnsp7adq.trq.866013149e@python.interpring.com> |
| In reply to | #32474 |
On 2021-09-27, steve pope <spope384@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello umar and songbird, > > Thanks for checking in. It's good to hear some familar voices here in > the old space. You're welcome. I've been missing Usenet. umar
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