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Reply to "real old exercise book"

Iguana posted:
Stormborn posted:

Tables are math fundamentals...to be "worked" out to have meaning. The reason kids find them difficult is they are taught to memorize them not understand the math behind it. You can teach them the tricks of learning them but the tricks are grounded in the rules of mathematics. 

Banna, you don't have a clue what I'm talking about! I seriously doubt you've ever seen the back of a Guyanese exercise book, and if so, if you remember it.

Wasn't just multiplication tables which were memorized. There were weights and measures etc. They were FACTS that the student memorized and used in working out math problems. They were known, not "worked out". I gave examples - yards in a mile, feet in a mile and so on.

In your  post to me you were expecting those facts to be math problems. You claimed kids could "work those out", accused me of  being "dunce" because I couldn't. You are talking sheer shit! You don't "work out" 12 inches in a foot at common entrance age in Guyana back then, you just fcking know it or not. 

As I said, you have no freaking clue what you're talking about. Matter of fact, you rarely do. You're just seeking attention and accolades, grand proclamations of how "smart" you are. Well now everyone knows what a fraud you are!

Dude, those exercise were still around when I started school. I even used the red royal readers and the new blue Caribbean readers. What you doubt matters little to me. It is what I know.

Also I never mentioned what was at be back of the books. You need that bit of irrelevancy. I am not arguing my knowledge of the book but made a statement of fact that the tables are easy if the kids are given some useful numerical tools. The exercise books is your drift to nonsense. Even if I never saw the book is of little consequence to my statements. 

And indeed you work out what is a foot. It is a unit of measure so to know it you must know its sub units and what import it have for larger measures. You work that out dummy.

If what I say seems as proclamations that is because you are intellectually  stunted.

   

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