So far as I can tell, thte idea behind
this is to teach dukk children the tricks the bright children use.
Doesn't work. The bright kids don't
learn the tricks, by and large they work them out themselves.
No-body told me that 1 over 7 was 0.14. Worked it out for myself,
and the fact that one seventh was twice seven was just lagniappe. And
that word there, “lagniappe”. It means (in the words of Mark
Twain) the thirteenth donut in a baker's dozen. And one half of one
over three is repeating sixteens.
You know where you learn this shit?
Well, actually, fuck you, I learned it
in Baseball. Learned to make the numbers dance, and learned that the
numbers lie, because even with a .446 average aagainst left handed
pitching and thte fact that he hasn't hit a leftie in his last 5 at
bats, his odds are still ledd than 50% over the entire at-bat.
Common Core assumes that the shortcuts
that I use can be used by everyone. Don't work that way, and it
shouldn't. I memorized 3.141596283 and I'll stop there, bcause it
was expected of me. The standar mnemonics are: May I Have A Small
Container Of Coffee (31415626) and (Man I Need A Drink Alcoholic of
Course). Commn Core also assumes that the students give a fuck. They
don't.
Now here's another: I go and catch up
with sone buddies, and because I'm really famous and shit it's at the
Brown Derby in LA. You had the smoked salmon, but your girlfriend
had the oysters, and you had two orders of oysters, but you had the
lobster with truffles...(this is where I show up, nibble a breadcrust
and adopt an abandonded water glass).
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Oh, it's just too difficult. Math's so
hard. There's me and Siffany, you and Tiffany, and you and Viffany,
plus you JC, so let's just divide it by 7 ! Makes it easy, right!
Lord help them when they try to figure the tip, but knowing the folks
I do in “high-class” places in LA, the table service dude will
get fucked. Valet parking guy may get $20 to $100 each, cause every
one of those fuckwads knows what he paid for his car. ME, I just
pisssed on all the radiators. Heh, heh.
See, that's what happens when you don't
learn math. Let's look at averages. Did you know that there are 3
different kinds?
Add 'em all up and divide - that's
called the MEAN
Chart 'em all up and find where
there's more above and below, that's called the MEDIAN
List 'em all and find the most common
number, that's called the MODE
I learned this in 5th grade.
But that was around the middle of the end of the War in VietNam
(which started in 1939, with the East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere going
after the French colony in VN. Please, don't get me started), and
numbers started to take on a numinous sparkle all their own.
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