WARNING SEXUAL CONTENT Re: Re: Nadas and sex

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in freshman year of college, i tested into and got through calculus

and realized i didn't know what the hell i was doing or why i was

getting the right answer...or even what the right answer MEANT, so i

dropped back down to college algebra...basically the point where i

lost touch with what exactly i was doing. this experience has really

fortified my belief that everyone can learn math as long as they can

find where the math stopped making sense. my poor kids come to me and

don't know what they're doing and most of the time the knowledge they

lack is knowledge they should have been taught in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!

AYE CARAMBA!!!

i'm really glad you're giving math another shot. so many people just

get lost and assume there is something wrong with them or that their

brains just aren't cut out for processing math when the real problem

is that their teachers skipped over the very necessary step of tying

math to the real world before jumping into generalizing mathematic

principals.

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> that is an amazing post about the gender bias in different fields of

> study.

>

> I was shocked to learn that numbers and letters (language) are both

> done on the left side of the brain; a class I am taking confirmed

> this...this whole racked about women being right-brain vs. men being

> left brain as it relates to math vs. language is a complete hoax. We

> have been doing information processing as it relates to the human

> brain for the past few chapters and one thing they are saying is

> that for new knowledge to be moved into long-term memory from

> working (short-term) memory it has to be related to something that

> is already in long-term memory and I truly believe this *is* the

> main problem, at least for the generation I grew up in, that we

> weren't taught those subjects from our particular cultural

> perspective, like your argument about spatial and CAD vs. pattern

> making. I once read an article that explained how a car engine works

> as related to how household appliances work, like the washing

> machine, and vacuum cleaners etc, related to different parts of the

> engine and it made complete sense. I am having to study math again

> right now and it has brought up so much for me about why it was so

> difficult, two reasons I struggle with it is that I can't relate

> much of it to anything in my experience, so it doesn't go into my

> long-term memory, and that I realized that just doing basic math,

> where I start having problems is anywhere they have jumped ahead

> without telling us why it is that this is so. I.e. it's a bunch of

> rules to memorize without knowing, or seeing why these things are

> true, and the way I learn is from the bottom up, I comprehend much

> better if shown step by step why things end up being a certain

> answer. And in teaching math they just don't have time to do that,

> so you memorize rules (and in my case, immediately forget them). I

> understand now with the family I grew up in why I can't just take

> any rules at face-value, because the 'rules' in my family changed

> constantly and were completely insane. No wonder I disregarded math

> rather than trying to be proficient at it.

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