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  Do You Like or Dislike Algebra? Why and Why not?

  by Scott77 in

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  july 28, 2012is algebra necessary?by andrew hacker .

  a typical american school day finds some six million high school students and two million college freshmen struggling with algebra.

  in both high school and college, all too many students are expected to fail.

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  One piece of advice I will give when it comes to tackling the algebraic aspects of calculus is one I emphasize again and again to my students: TAKE YOUR TIME!!! - QUENDI

  COGNAISANCE already commented on this but I will too. I have come to realize that the main source of frustration in mathematics for me is timed testing. If I sit and spend several hours on homework or a workshop assignment, I not only get A's, I get 100%. It's timed tests/quizzes that kill me (even though I've been doing quite well this summer)

  In any other timed test in any other class, there is PLENTY of time not only to finish the exam, but I always spend the last 15 min/half hour going over my answers and looking for mistakes. It's in that 15-20 min or so that I get back points that give me the "A" as opposed to the "B".

  However, with mathematics exams I am going through problems a breakneck speed just to finish the test on time. There is no "extra time" at the end to recheck work. The exam is turned in as-is, for better or worse.

  I mentioned this to my calc instructor and he wasnt surprised, he found that to be the case even when he took exams. Anyway, I think he took my experience to heart, as our second midterm just this Thursday seemed shorter than the first. I actually finished with 20 minutes to spare where I went back and checked my work. I even found a "fatal" error in one of my answers and had to redo the problem. If I hadn't had the time, the mistake would have probably cost me an A.
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  Do You Like or Dislike Algebra? Why and Why not?

  by Scott77 in

  1. social
  2. current

  july 28, 2012is algebra necessary?by andrew hacker .

  a typical american school day finds some six million high school students and two million college freshmen struggling with algebra.

  in both high school and college, all too many students are expected to fail.

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  breakfast of champions

  I'm taking Calculus right now. . . .

  And you would think where I'd get hung up is in all that fancy calc stuff like derivatives, and derivatives of derivatives . . ..

  But nooooooo. . . . . . all of those concepts I've got down pat.

  Where do I always screw up? In the friggin algebra!

  Drives me absolutely mad!
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  ex elder sentenced to 14 years.

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  2. child-abuse

  http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/im-relieved-everybody-now-knows-7357125.

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  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-28127683.

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  'She wants worshippers in congregations to be notified when a fellow churchgoer is disfellowshipped from the faith for sex abuse.

  Karen told us: “They are going to have to do something, I’m not going to let this go.”'

  Is Karen aware that others before her have been disfellowshipped and labelled apostates for trying to reform the cult's policy with regard to pedophiles?

  Personally, I wish her the best and hope she's successful.
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  Android or iPad? Help please.

  by Xanthippe in

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  2. friends

  it seems i am going to have to teach people to use a tablet as part of my job and i don't even have one!

  any advice would be most helpful please.. i keep reading blurb on amazon etc and now i'm really confused.

  what should i buy?

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  I have an iPad, my father just bought a Nexus.

  He loves it, but it really is no less expensive than an iPad (I think it was about $500).

  I like the iPad, but for my purposes, a laptop would have been better. That being said, a nexus doesnt compare to a laptop either. So. . . .

  If you need a tablet, get the iPad.

  Final answer!
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  Entertainment for International Delegates

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  bibl3thumper has posted a youtube of the celebrations that took place for german delegates.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvs6_q7rqps&feature=em-subs_digest.

  it's hard to believe that they are now using the kingdom hall to sing pop songs and for dancing.

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  Something to reflect on:

  This "entertainment" evidently had the society's blessing, if it wasn't requested by the society itself (which I believe it was).

  HOWEVER, could you imagine the shit storm if a body of elders arranged such "entertainment" without direction from the society?

  In other words, it's a cult.
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  "It's not religious..." Wait... What???

  by dynamiterose77 in

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  2. beliefs

  my friend, mike works as a massage therapist, and there is a woman at the shop that is super-jw-woman and is constantly hounding him with things.. today, he's messaging me and he tells me that she was trying to push a brochure or something on him.

  he said he'd really rather not read a religious pamphlet.. so... she says, "it's not religious... it's from god.".

  isn't that kinda what religious means?

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  This comes from the people who have been told a generation is really TWO generations overlapping so, hell, sure, a pamphlet about god isn't religious.
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  Entertainment for International Delegates

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  bibl3thumper has posted a youtube of the celebrations that took place for german delegates.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvs6_q7rqps&feature=em-subs_digest.

  it's hard to believe that they are now using the kingdom hall to sing pop songs and for dancing.

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  This is not my religion. . . . I'm just sitting here shaking my head. . . .
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  UK Charity Commission Expand their Investigation

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the paedophile/rape case in wales has attracted the interest of the the charity police.

  it seems the clouds are gathering and the charitable status of the wt in the uk is in question.

  not great for the dubs but superb for champions of truth and righteousness.. ironic isn't it.

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  breakfast of champions

  This is good.

  Bring it on indeed!

  Thanks, SLIDIN
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  IC 2014 talk: "A Century of Kingdom Rule Contrasted With a Century of Satan’s Rule"

  by AnnOMaly in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a discussion of this talk on friday morning deserves its own thread.

  as i said elsewhere, it was a remarkable one.

  the speaker was manfred vencebi (google him - he's a bethel bigwig) and some of his remarks are real gems.

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  If you could somehow snap your fingers and take away all the advances made in the past century - technology, civil rights, etc. - Jehovah's Witnesses would cry: "It's the Great Tribulation!"
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  US Supreme Court: Hobby Lobby wins we lose

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  the old guys sided with hobby lobby today in denying birth control coverage to its female employees based on the owners religious views.

  intact- is viagra for the guys.

  funny how the far right evangelical owners of hobby lobby didn't want to touch that one.... read judge ginburg's scathing counter argument and opinion.. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf.

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  From the NY Times: "Justice Alito said he accepted for the sake of argument that the government had a compelling interest in making sure women have access to contraception. But he said there were ways of doing that without violating the companies’ religious rights."

  A company has religious rights?

  I live in a bizzare land.