Math problem Pissing me off!!

[MotoSook]

Originally posted by LubeMaster77
Here's one that made my son go nuts for 30 minutes.

"OK Max, what is 1+1 equal."

"Dad, thats so easy, its 2!"

"Nope, it's 3 or 1 but not two. Heres an example. Lets say I'm 1 and Mommy is 1. When you added us up we had you which made it another 1 or 3 total!"

"Dad, thats...hay, how'd you do that?"

I did straighten him out but only after having him think it through.

Our 9 year old came home with math homework and mom wasn't touching it....they were learning the metric system.

After I got him to learn milllimeters, centimeters and meters, I asked what a decimeter is. Puzzled look from the young Timmy. So I humorously screamed at mom for making us move to an overly expensive school system where teachers overlooked such a thing...

...then I continued to teach Timmy the decimal system. At the end of the lesson, Timmy remarked, "I can't wait to tell my teacher what a decimeter is!" Mom and I got a good giggle.

The next morning, Timmy comes downstairs and exclaims, "Souk! quiz me on millimeters!" While putting on his coat to got to the bus stop he's singing, "I know millimeters...I know millimeters."

Jim...If I ever loss my HP, it would be a very very sad day in my life

[M.D. Holloway]

I use cc, mg, kg, lit, kl, mm and cm but as for anything else - nope - hectometer? decimeter? gagometer? wtfometer...

[masraum]

here, here for a few years of non-public schooling as a primer. I was in a private parochial school in Pensacola for the 5-7th grade and half of the 8th grade. I remember how to diagram sentences, I remember all of the metric prefixs from kilo-pico and usually guess right on the stuff above kilo.

I don't however remember the capitals of every country and state in the world.

I guess having mandatory "Bible" class, chapel every Wed and Fri, and a grade for penmanship that often kept me off of the honor roll was good for something.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally posted by vash
i would/should be fired without my HP48GX. i own two of them.

You too? I'm still figuring out new cool stuff on my 49G+, too bad the UI sucks. I can't count how much time I've spent on the HP website reading through the manual.

[teenerted1]

sorry cant help you on any HS math

quarters w/vodka at lunch doesnt lead to staying awake during 6th period algebra.

[red-beard]

"I hate Numbers. There's like too many of them, and stuff."

[snowman]

I have my trusty old slip sticks. One in Aluminum the other in Mahogony, both give the same answers. If I really get desperate theres the HP41CV, and finally the handy PC. Then for REAL math problems theres the REAL computers, starting at 128 bits for good precision. Gimme a break math hasn't changed for a zillion years. If you learned it in 1906 or 2006 its still the same. Unlike politics. And SUPRIZE!! the 128 bit computer gives exactly the same answer as the slip sticks do.