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Old 01-31-2008, 08:01 PM
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What do you mean no practical use? If some one needs an exact measurement then fractions can be used as well as decimals. but you don't need the fractions and the decimals are easier to work with How are you going to cook using a decimal measurement? Simple .5 is a half .25 is a fourth and so on

When I was in Junior High they taught us to diagram a sentence which at the time I saw no useful purpose but later I learned to taught me proper sentence structure.
Thats great but I bet you could structure a sentence pretty much properly before junior high, I know I could and besides that has nothing to do with fractions
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Old 01-31-2008, 08:49 PM
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In my line of work they reduced ractions to decimals and really even though it was more "precise" it was really to cater down to fucking retards that couldn't reduce fractions quick enough to stay up.

I am right 4/3 of the time. I remember seeing a license plate once that read "four on the floor a fifth under the seat". What to do now? I would like to stuff a bottle of tobasco sauce down that profesers throat with an unchewed buriito.
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In my line of work they reduced ractions to decimals and really even though it was more "precise" exactly so whats your problem with it it was really to cater down to fucking retards that couldn't reduce fractions quick enough to stay up. so what it's still a better system

I am right 4/3 of the time. I remember seeing a license plate once that read "four on the floor a fifth under the seat". What to do now? I would like to stuff a bottle of tobasco sauce down that profesers throat with an unchewed buriito.
who gives a shit about him
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We were required to read Stienbeck, Melvile and Shakespear. Plus I read almost anything I could get my hands on.
I had to read Barbara Ehrenreich. Had to, is the key word. We had to read some book about minimum wage work. Can't remember the name of it.

When I enrolled at SIU to study Music Theory and American History, no less. My Required classes had me reading The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap by Ralph Nader. We spent endless hours doing discussions on Newsweek articles, and the latest crap from Al Gore or some other flavor of the month Leftist.

It really is asinine that educators at the college level could really care less about an education more than promoting there political beliefs. It's crap. All I can say is that Socialism is being covertly promoted in colleges these days. I often wonder why no Libertarians have started Universities like the Christian Fundementalists have.
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Thats great but I bet you could structure a sentence pretty much properly before junior high, I know I could and besides that has nothing to do with fractions
I think it goes to what you think is useless and a waste of time.
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I think it goes to what you think is useless and a waste of time.
Try to make sense asshole
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Try to make sense asshole
Then read the thread again and then comment because I think your a waste of time and energy.
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I thought this was interesting since I am of the belief that this will lead to some parents concluding that education should be more about specialization instead of knowing advanced levels in every subject.

Let a child specialize in Math, Science, History or whatever. It would only help them more to get a job in a chosen field and they would probably be better prepared for say, Computer Geekiness jobs if they studied more math, or a lawyer who studied history and law for instance.
When I was in High School, computers were huge mysterious machines locked away is some government building or college research department. PC was just 2 letters in the alphabet.
I took electronics because I planned on going into some electronic field.
I wound up in the computer field following my discharge from the service, in 1974, purely by chance. I worked on aircraft navigation equipment in the Air Force and aside from the fact that they both use electricity, navigation equipment and computers have very little in common.
Point is, There was no real preparation in high school for what I wound up doing. The computer industry has blossomed so fast it's hard to keep up with it.
Now a days with outsourcing and the move from manufacturing to service orientated jobs, how can one plan for future employment?
I doubt if half of the high school students have a clue as to what they want to do in the future, and if they do, there's no guarantee that field of work will be available when they enter the workforce.
There are thousands of Liberal Arts majors managing fast food restaurants.
Not everyone can be a Doctor or an Attorney.
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Graybeard, that is why our kids need a very well rounded education to give them the chances to succeed.
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Graybeard, that is why our kids need a very well rounded education to give them the chances to succeed.
Agreed, Rob.
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