Student invents new math process

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Key phrase : "as far as her seventh-grade
teacher has been able to ascertain."

I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT scores of
any field other than physical education.

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Scott Ferrin wrote in message
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Key phrase : "as far as her seventh-grade
teacher has been able to ascertain."

I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT
scores of any field other than physical education.

Yeah, but being able to graduate college should mean you have a firm
understanding of things like subtraction.

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"tscottme" wrote in
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Scott Ferrin wrote in message
news

Key phrase : "as far as her seventh-grade
teacher has been able to ascertain."

I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT
scores of any field other than physical education.

Yeah, but being able to graduate college should mean you have a firm
understanding of things like subtraction.

To be fair to teachers, when I was in the 8th grade (1962), a science
teacher had no idea why I couldn't spin a magnet up in a vacuum, inside a
coil and extract unlimited energy from it.

That said, the bar for education majors is set very, very low and still they
can't clear it. NY City announced that they were firing 3000 teachers who
couldn't pass the (10th grade level) competency test after as many as 12
tries. One flunky protested that the test covered things that were
inapplicable to what she did in a classroom.

I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT scores of
any field other than physical education.

That seems to be true, and it is one of the most rgrettable things
about our society. Our kids should be taught by the brightest, not
by the dimmest.

vince norris

vincent p. norris wrote:
I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT
scores of any field other than physical education.

That seems to be true, and it is one of the most rgrettable things
about our society. Our kids should be taught by the brightest, not
by the dimmest.

One of my teachers once said "you're not here to learn, you're here to be
taught". Looks like that sentiment still holds.
The school's only A-level chemistry teacher went off sick the second year of
my studies, the best the school could come up with was a teacher who was
learning the syllabus as he was teaching it. Most of the time he was only
one lesson ahead of us, if we picked something up quicker than planned then
he couldn't do anymore 'til he'd learnt it for the next session. A truely
stupid plan but we got through the year somehow.

--
James...
http://www.jameshart.co.uk/

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:30:04 -0500, vincent p. norris
wrote:

I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT scores of
any field other than physical education.

That seems to be true, and it is one of the most rgrettable things
about our society. Our kids should be taught by the brightest, not
by the dimmest.

We aren't willing to pay for the brightest, though.

Say I'm good at math and I like it, so I can go into teaching for some
miserable pittance or I can go into engineering for three times as
much. If I'm as smart as you're hoping for, I'm too smart to go into
teaching. And I save a year of college, because teaching takes five
years and engineering takes the standard four years.

In my own case, my father was a high-school teacher and my parents
really did their best to discourage me from going into teaching.
Having watched my father, I was never tempted at all. Teaching a
night course at the local junior college for three semesters just
reaffirmed the rightness of my decision.

If you want, you can blame it all on the women's movement, since it
was that that opened other occupations to women. No longer forced to
be teachers or nurses, we chose higher-paying, more prestigious
professions. Let's face it, "I'm a third-grade teacher" doesn't get
nearly the attention "I'm a research engineer at NASA" does.

Mary

--
Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer

wow

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:40:58 -0800, Mary Shafer
wrote:

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:30:04 -0500, vincent p. norris
wrote:

I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT scores of
any field other than physical education.

That seems to be true, and it is one of the most rgrettable things
about our society. Our kids should be taught by the brightest, not
by the dimmest.

We aren't willing to pay for the brightest, though.

Say I'm good at math and I like it, so I can go into teaching for some
miserable pittance or I can go into engineering for three times as
much. If I'm as smart as you're hoping for, I'm too smart to go into
teaching. And I save a year of college, because teaching takes five
years and engineering takes the standard four years.

In my own case, my father was a high-school teacher and my parents
really did their best to discourage me from going into teaching.
Having watched my father, I was never tempted at all. Teaching a
night course at the local junior college for three semesters just
reaffirmed the rightness of my decision.

If you want, you can blame it all on the women's movement, since it
was that that opened other occupations to women. No longer forced to
be teachers or nurses, we chose higher-paying, more prestigious
professions. Let's face it, "I'm a third-grade teacher" doesn't get
nearly the attention "I'm a research engineer at NASA" does.

Mary

hey, WTF does this have to do with the original post which was way
off topic anyway???? Please post and respond to only ontopic stuff??
Mary, you seem pretty bright,,,why don't you post a topic instead of
always trying to correct people and show us how smart you are???
Seriously???
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:40:58 -0800, Mary Shafer
wrote:

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:30:04 -0500, vincent p. norris
wrote:

I believe education majors in universities have the lowest SAT scores of
any field other than physical education.

That seems to be true, and it is one of the most rgrettable things
about our society. Our kids should be taught by the brightest, not
by the dimmest.

We aren't willing to pay for the brightest, though.

Say I'm good at math and I like it, so I can go into teaching for some
miserable pittance or I can go into engineering for three times as
much. If I'm as smart as you're hoping for, I'm too smart to go into
teaching. And I save a year of college, because teaching takes five
years and engineering takes the standard four years.

In my own case, my father was a high-school teacher and my parents
really did their best to discourage me from going into teaching.
Having watched my father, I was never tempted at all. Teaching a
night course at the local junior college for three semesters just
reaffirmed the rightness of my decision.

If you want, you can blame it all on the women's movement, since it
was that that opened other occupations to women. No longer forced to
be teachers or nurses, we chose higher-paying, more prestigious
professions. Let's face it, "I'm a third-grade teacher" doesn't get
nearly the attention "I'm a research engineer at NASA" does.

Mary

user wrote:

hey, WTF does this have to do with the original post which was way
off topic anyway???? Please post and respond to only ontopic stuff??
Mary, you seem pretty bright,,,why don't you post a topic instead of
always trying to correct people and show us how smart you are???
Seriously???

That's what I hate about rec.aviation.military. All the damn topic police!

-- Charlie Springer

On 24 Nov 2003 21:56:42 GMT, Regnirps wrote:

That's what I hate about rec.aviation.military. All the damn topic police!

Discussion of the topic police is off topic for rec.aviation.military.

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yeff at erols dot com