Depends on what you think "reasonable" is, I can guarantee my wife and I have very different interpretations of the word reasonable....lukethedrifter wrote:That's not what they are doing.wart57 wrote:This kind of things maddens us old farts. Us old farts were taught math was concrete and had only one true answer, not reasonable answers. But I can understand why it is being done, if exact numbers aren't important and they are learning to estimate. But it just throw us old farts off.lukethedrifter wrote:Incredibly poorly constructed math question. When it's easier to get the actual answer than the estimated one you're doing it wrong.
You have kids. They do a math problem and come up with an answer that is way off. You say, "Does that answer even make sense?"
They are teaching kids to understand if what they have come up with is a reasonable answer. By estimating. But some times the people coming up with the questions don't get it either so they only confuse people more.
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went to the grocery store after work and as i was leaving there was a shouting match between two men in the parking lot. enough of a "scene" that people were standing nearby recording it. some people i think were calling the police too. very strange (and uncomfortable). i got the hell out of dodge.
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I hope you yelled world star hip hop before you left.Jocephus wrote:went to the grocery store after work and as i was leaving there was a shouting match between two men in the parking lot. enough of a "scene" that people were standing nearby recording it. some people i think were calling the police too. very strange (and uncomfortable). i got the hell out of dodge.
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Six scrambled eggs does not seem like enough, but two boiled eggs is plenty.
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Just won the most significant case of my career so far. I feel giddy.
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Congrats. Not random.
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yeah but where does it rank
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Tuna salad made with miracle whip - yummy yummy.go birds wrote:a turkey and miracle whip sando after thanksgiving wooooooooooo
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congratsheyzeus wrote:Just won the most significant case of my career so far. I feel giddy.




