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Good for you. I met kids in 4th grade who struggled with their multiplication tables. What do you do for them?

holonomically 5y ago
Spend some extra time figuring out why they're struggling. But I suspect what you have in mind is something else, something more along the lines of leaving them behind.
- carabiner 5y ago
  Your words. Not mine.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
- ryan93 5y ago
  This thread is full of some of the least empathetic people on the planet. Some people just struggle with stuff that others don’t.
  - dmitrygr 5y ago
    I struggled with basketball in PE. The teacher said that maybe it just wasn't for me, and had me sit on the bench for the rest of the basketball unit. For some reason they didn’t force EVERYONE to sit for six weeks cause I couldn’t basketball. Now explain to me how math differs.
    - ryan93 5y ago
      You could have been Lebron James if he didn’t bench you.
      - dmitrygr 5y ago
        I couldn’t. And I recognize that. Maybe it is about time we recognized that not everyone is cut out for calculus either?
        ryan93 5y ago
        that was my point should have used /s
        dmitrygr 5y ago
        Sorry I missed the implied “/s”. I see it now. :)
  - holonomically 5y ago
    I don't know if that's what's going on. I suspect some haven't really sat down to think about what exactly they believe and why. Most seem to be parroting various mantras I've seen expressed on Twitter and Reddit without having thought about the implications of what they're parroting.
  - caeril 5y ago
    There's still a lot of unfounded blank-slatism and autism (in the sense of inability to empathize) in our educated society, and proudly on display here on HN. It's effectively impossible to get someone with an IQ of 130 to have empathy for someone with an IQ of 95. They just need to work harder, they just need to have better teachers, they just need to stop watching so much television, they just need to get better nutrition, ad nauseum. Imagine the ego crush that would occur if a 130 IQ true-believer in human equality is faced with the prospect that their intellectual success is due to winning a genetic lottery, not due to their hard work and proper life choices. Of course they're going to deny the reality of hardwired cognitive horsepower. To do otherwise is to deny how much better they are than you.
geomark 5y ago
TT Rockstars https://ttrockstars.com/ https://ttrockstars.com/ Most kids get into it.
watwut 5y ago
> I met kids in 4th grade who struggled with their multiplication tables. What do you do for them? That is when multiplication tables are actually taught. Multiplication itself starts to be taught before, but 4th grade is when the full tables are expected to be learned. So, you have met kids that struggle to learn multiplication tables when they are first introduced to them. Which is actually fine, it is ok to struggle at first before getting it.

Spend some extra time figuring out why they're struggling. But I suspect what you have in mind is something else, something more along the lines of leaving them behind.

carabiner 5y ago
Your words. Not mine.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
ryan93 5y ago
This thread is full of some of the least empathetic people on the planet. Some people just struggle with stuff that others don’t.
- dmitrygr 5y ago
  I struggled with basketball in PE. The teacher said that maybe it just wasn't for me, and had me sit on the bench for the rest of the basketball unit. For some reason they didn’t force EVERYONE to sit for six weeks cause I couldn’t basketball. Now explain to me how math differs.
  - ryan93 5y ago
    You could have been Lebron James if he didn’t bench you.
    - dmitrygr 5y ago
      I couldn’t. And I recognize that. Maybe it is about time we recognized that not everyone is cut out for calculus either?
      - ryan93 5y ago
        that was my point should have used /s
        dmitrygr 5y ago
        Sorry I missed the implied “/s”. I see it now. :)
- holonomically 5y ago
  I don't know if that's what's going on. I suspect some haven't really sat down to think about what exactly they believe and why. Most seem to be parroting various mantras I've seen expressed on Twitter and Reddit without having thought about the implications of what they're parroting.
- caeril 5y ago
  There's still a lot of unfounded blank-slatism and autism (in the sense of inability to empathize) in our educated society, and proudly on display here on HN. It's effectively impossible to get someone with an IQ of 130 to have empathy for someone with an IQ of 95. They just need to work harder, they just need to have better teachers, they just need to stop watching so much television, they just need to get better nutrition, ad nauseum. Imagine the ego crush that would occur if a 130 IQ true-believer in human equality is faced with the prospect that their intellectual success is due to winning a genetic lottery, not due to their hard work and proper life choices. Of course they're going to deny the reality of hardwired cognitive horsepower. To do otherwise is to deny how much better they are than you.

geomark 5y ago

TT Rockstars https://ttrockstars.com/ https://ttrockstars.com/ Most kids get into it.

watwut 5y ago

> I met kids in 4th grade who struggled with their multiplication tables. What do you do for them? That is when multiplication tables are actually taught. Multiplication itself starts to be taught before, but 4th grade is when the full tables are expected to be learned. So, you have met kids that struggle to learn multiplication tables when they are first introduced to them. Which is actually fine, it is ok to struggle at first before getting it.