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by hdctambien 4y ago
Cash Rules Everything Around Me is a Wu-Tang song (C.R.E.A.M.)
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I’ve Had Enough of Teaching(medium.com)
16 points by hdctambien 4y ago|1 comments
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by hdctambien 5y ago
I think I would have rather seen a version of Foundation written by Aaron Sorkin.
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by hdctambien 5y ago
Excellent points. I made it a point that "if it is on an assessment, then they will have seen it in class" No tricks, no novel algorithms. Just show me that you learned the things that I tried to teach you. If a lab asks you to wr
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by hdctambien 5y ago
I would see this a lot, too. I think in many cases it is a coping mechanism that they develop and may not even realize they are doing it. You see articles about not praising kids for being "smart" because that praises something in
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by hdctambien 5y ago
That's an excellent point. I actually stopped grading lab assignments. I found students were more interesting in getting "the answer" than learning the material. This would lead to students making decisions that optimized for
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by hdctambien 5y ago
This is pretty much how I taught my High School Computer Science classes. The biggest step for me was to never touch the student keyboards. And then I basically only answered their questions with more questions. Sometimes I would hear stude
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by hdctambien 5y ago
Following on from my other reply... When we start teaching math to students, we start with counting blocks: "You have 2 piles of blocks, one pile of 3 and another pile of 2. If you put them together, you get a pile of 5 blocks!" T
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by hdctambien 5y ago
I think the magic/miracle of math is that you can go from "real world" into "math world" then back into "real world". If a rule is true for c and n and n+1, and you can physically represent the idea when n
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by hdctambien 5y ago
I was explaining that there is no "government branch", but as someone else pointed out that may have just been a translation error. What you say about spending is correct. And, yeah, the differences between the legislative and exe
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by hdctambien 5y ago
There isn't a "government branch". The is legislative, executive, and judicial. They are all "the government".
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by hdctambien 5y ago
I'm fairly certain that's what Common Core was trying to do... And parents around the US freaked out because it was different than how they learned math and states like Texas made it illegal...
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by hdctambien 5y ago
Adding a spinner is just putting lipstick on the bloat. Progressively loading a page can at least hide the bloat from the end user. A page of text should just be a page of text. That's the beauty in sites like hackernews and craigslist
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by hdctambien 5y ago
I think you'd be surprised at what they were trying to teach you. At least in Texas the 3rd grade standards are pretty much the same as the High School standards (for values of "complex" adjusted for grade level) https:&#x2F
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by hdctambien 5y ago
I don't disagree with you. When I was in school (and still now, really) if there wasn't a dragon or a spaceship on the cover, I wasn't interested in it. I remember more about Where the Red Fern Grows, but not much (a kid gets
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by hdctambien 5y ago
I read an article (or maybe a biography author interview on NPR) about how pretty much all of his double-meanings/literary references came from the honors English curriculum from his time in school (probably pre-80's Dylan). Howev
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by hdctambien 5y ago
> most teachers aren’t experts, they just seem like that, to kids Oof. That's cold. Not necessarily wrong, but cold. I mean, most software developers are not actually good at developing software, they just seem like that because the
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by hdctambien 5y ago
Reading threads about public school on HN and threads about WFH/in-person makes me wonder if there is a relationship between the people that are anti-public school and pro-WFH or if there is a dissonant-relationship between anti-public
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by hdctambien 5y ago
Loading a page of text is effectively instantaneous. If the user's goal is to read that text, then anything else on the page that slows it down is bloat (from the user's perspective). All the stuff that is extraneous to the reason
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by hdctambien 5y ago
> a place your kids can go and be safe while you work The last 18 months have shown us that this is really what parents (and the economy) want out of school. Education comes after babysitting on the list of priorities.
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by hdctambien 5y ago
I can't speak for every (or most, or even some) case of bullying. But keep in mind when someone says "I was bullied and the teachers did nothing" they are saying that from the memory of a 10 - 17 year old with little to no in
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by hdctambien 5y ago
From a teachers perspective, the problem with cheating is that it doesn't help me help you. Especially if you are cheating from the get-go, it can take a while before I notice it and by then it might be too late. Tests are supposed to
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by hdctambien 5y ago
> might be good advice in Seattle, but if I told a local builder to worry about frost mitigation where I live now (Singapore) they'd probably question my sanity Texas felt the same way until February!
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by hdctambien 5y ago
Wasn't one of the problems with Boston's Big Dig that the contractors put an extra inch between bolts which saved them a ton of money (but ultimately killed a person)?
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by hdctambien 5y ago
And "real life" cutting and pasting that the metaphor was based on (scrapbooking, ransom notes, etc...)
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by hdctambien 5y ago
The original dual lands are very powerful in the game and haven't been reprinted since Revised so there aren't a lot of them. And people pay that much for them. Modern dual lands come with restrictions/penalties for taking ad
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by hdctambien 5y ago
> solve 10 generic and meaningless problems using this formula I used to think this too, even when I started teaching. But I think if you look at a (modern?) textbook you'll see that those problems are not actually generic. They ar
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by hdctambien 5y ago
My first year teaching math (12th grade, "standard" level (below "intensive" and "honors")), I had a student that could solve "equations with fractions for x" but she was struggling with a word proble
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by hdctambien 5y ago
Yes, that is more a misunderstanding of the purpose/role of university homework vs highschool homework.
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by hdctambien 6y ago
Is this the same thing as about.me? I signed up for that 10? years ago when I saw it on hacker news [1]. And that was apparently just a clone of flavors.me Are these just sites that ask you to enter a ton of personal data so they can sell i

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