What its like to live in California

Michael_Panetta said:
Yeah. All that "stoopid" learnin' done gone and mess with they heads. They need less math and more Jeebus!
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No, they need more math. I got the bill for a dinner from a cute waitress at a local drive-in that hires local HS and college waitresses. The bill was $25 and some change. I handed the young lady 2 $20 bills, said give me back a $10 and keep the rest. She looked very confused, not realizing she was getting nearly a $5 tip for simply taking an order and bringing it back out to my car! Jesus had nothing to do with it.
That's only one example. I managed a machine shop before I retired. One of the college grad CNC machinists that worked there before I became manager couldn't figure the angle to set the compound rest to turn a simple 1/4 inch taper over 4 inches on a manual lathe. He said tapers are figured in the programs for the CNC, he didn't need to know how to do it. So yeah, they need taught more math (and they can use calculators to do it now, we couldn't use calculators when I was in math class).
 
RB 60 said:
No, they need more math. I got the bill for a dinner from a cute waitress at a local drive-in that hires local HS and college waitresses. The bill was $25 and some change. I handed the young lady 2 $20 bills, said give me back a $10 and keep the rest. She looked very confused, not realizing she was getting nearly a $5 tip for simply taking an order and bringing it back out to my car! Jesus had nothing to do with it.
That's only one example. I managed a machine shop before I retired. One of the college grad CNC machinists that worked there before I became manager couldn't figure the angle to set the compound rest to turn a simple 1/4 inch taper over 4 inches on a manual lathe. He said tapers are figured in the programs for the CNC, he didn't need to know how to do it. So yeah, they need taught more math (and they can use calculators to do it now, we couldn't use calculators when I was in math class).
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I was in a convenient store recently buying a PowerAde and paying for gas. I like to keep the amounts at whole numbers. The drink was $2.39 and I wanted to make it an even $50. I told the cashier, that looked to be early 20s that I also wanted $47.61 in gas. She asked why such an odd amount. When I told her to ring it up and she'd see, when it came to $50, she asked me how I was able to do the math in my head so quickly. When I was in school, we didn't use calculators for simple calculations like that.
 
RB 60 said:
No, they need more math. I got the bill for a dinner from a cute waitress at a local drive-in that hires local HS and college waitresses. The bill was $25 and some change. I handed the young lady 2 $20 bills, said give me back a $10 and keep the rest. She looked very confused, not realizing she was getting nearly a $5 tip for simply taking an order and bringing it back out to my car! Jesus had nothing to do with it.
That's only one example. I managed a machine shop before I retired. One of the college grad CNC machinists that worked there before I became manager couldn't figure the angle to set the compound rest to turn a simple 1/4 inch taper over 4 inches on a manual lathe. He said tapers are figured in the programs for the CNC, he didn't need to know how to do it. So yeah, they need taught more math (and they can use calculators to do it now, we couldn't use calculators when I was in math class).
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How about a PhD that couldn't do percentages without a percent key on her calculator? Or the teacher (K - 12) friend of the wife's who asked for science project ideas for her grade school class? I suggested she show them how sound works and they could make string "telephones" using Styrofoam cups and pieces of string. The first clue something is wrong in our schools was she worried that using a toothpick to poke a hole in the cup might result in injury to kid. We got past that. Then she had to have how sound works explained to her because she had no clue.

Its a sad commentary on our quality of education today...
 
CFM said:
I was in a convenient store recently buying a PowerAde and paying for gas. I like to keep the amounts at whole numbers. The drink was $2.39 and I wanted to make it an even $50. I told the cashier, that looked to be early 20s that I also wanted $47.61 in gas. She asked why such an odd amount. When I told her to ring it up and she'd see, when it came to $50, she asked me how I was able to do the math in my head so quickly. When I was in school, we didn't use calculators for simple calculations like that.
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You’re a stable genius!
 
CFM said:
I was in a convenient store recently buying a PowerAde and paying for gas. I like to keep the amounts at whole numbers. The drink was $2.39 and I wanted to make it an even $50. I told the cashier, that looked to be early 20s that I also wanted $47.61 in gas. She asked why such an odd amount. When I told her to ring it up and she'd see, when it came to $50, she asked me how I was able to do the math in my head so quickly. When I was in school, we didn't use calculators for simple calculations like that.
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Mental arithmetic was taught to nine year olds back in the day in England. Mcslobber was going on about gerunds, we were taught English grammar and comprehension at that age as well.
 
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Grajonca said:
Mental arithmetic was taught to nine year olds back in the day in England, as was English grammar. Mcslobber was going on about gerunds, we we taught English grammar and comprehension at that age as well.
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It's when kids learned multiplication tables and could add 2 + 2 and get 4 without punching it into a calculator.
 
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