OFF TOPIC Reading - Page 5

> This girl argued through 2 managers & 2 customers that 1.14 was the correct
> change - she did the math on a piece of paper.!!!
>
> Not only couldn't she do the math properly, she was unable to just count the
> change. A nickel makes 8.26, two dollars makes 10.26 etc. SAD
>
>

> But this isn't new. At least not in California.
>
> Sometime in the 1980s, I was at the grocery with a couple of common
> items that I bought often enough to know what they cost, when the lights
> went out.
>
> The cashier believed me that this was $1.99, that was 59c, etc. But had
> no idea how to add up the prices without the cash register. So I
> grabbed a paper bag and did the addition for her. She wasn't sure how
> to double-check if my total was correct. And we're only talking a
> couple items, not a long column of numbers.
>
> Thank God I was able to pay with exact change, or she would probably
> still be standing there trying to figure out how much to give me back.

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>. One or two I had to read to make sure
>> > I understood what they were asking, but really - 10% of 25 - that's a
>> > high school question?
>> And yes, that is HS math these days!
>Cheryl's right - my kids (6th and 7th grade) do not know how to do long
>division. I'm not kidding - it's never been taught.

> On 1/23/07 11:27 PM, in article 45b6e019$1@news.bnb-lp.com, "MargW"
>
>> Cheryl Isaak wrote:
>>> http://www.gotoquiz.com/results/what_kind_of_reader_are_you
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What Kind of Reader Are You?
>>> Your Result: Literate Good Citizen
>>>
>>>
>>> You read to inform or entertain yourself, but you're not nerdy about it.
>>> You've read most major classics (in school) and you have a favorite genre or
>>> two.
>>>
>>> (this was tough as in some questions, two answers were correct for me !)
>>>
>> Came out as a Dedicated Reader. Did anyone else go back to the main
>> GoToQuiz page, and try any of the other quizzes? I did the "Do You
>> deserve your High School Diploma?" and it said I was an autodidact
>> (91%)and couldn't have learned that much in High School since High
>> School doesn't teach that much. Huh? - I actually thought most of the
>> questions (except maybe the area question using the hypotenuse) were
>> elementary school level questions. One or two I had to read to make sure
>> I understood what they were asking, but really - 10% of 25 - that's a
>> high school question?
>>
>> MargW
>
>
> I got 86% - I figure I messed up the dangling modifier question.
>
> And yes, that is HS math these days!
>
> C

>
>> On 1/23/07 11:27 PM, in article 45b6e019$1@news.bnb-lp.com, "MargW"
>>
>>> Cheryl Isaak wrote:
>>>> http://www.gotoquiz.com/results/what_kind_of_reader_are_you
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What Kind of Reader Are You?
>>>> Your Result: Literate Good Citizen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You read to inform or entertain yourself, but you're not nerdy about it.
>>>> You've read most major classics (in school) and you have a favorite genre
>>>> or
>>>> two.
>>>>
>>>> (this was tough as in some questions, two answers were correct for me !)
>>>>
>>> Came out as a Dedicated Reader. Did anyone else go back to the main
>>> GoToQuiz page, and try any of the other quizzes? I did the "Do You
>>> deserve your High School Diploma?" and it said I was an autodidact
>>> (91%)and couldn't have learned that much in High School since High
>>> School doesn't teach that much. Huh? - I actually thought most of the
>>> questions (except maybe the area question using the hypotenuse) were
>>> elementary school level questions. One or two I had to read to make sure
>>> I understood what they were asking, but really - 10% of 25 - that's a
>>> high school question?
>>>
>>> MargW
>>
>>
>> I got 86% - I figure I messed up the dangling modifier question.
>>
>> And yes, that is HS math these days!
>>
>> C
> Hey that depends where you are. I'm actually pretty impressed with the math
> the kids around here are getting. Even when I was in school - we seemed to
> be sorted by which math progress - with some kids only getting through
> Algebra , Geometry and some business math, vs the standard of at least
> Algebra II, then maybe Trig/Analyt - pre Calc for most of the college prep
> kids and Calculus for the AP track kids. The god daughter at the S&T school
> had her first calc class in 11th grade - or at least some kind of pre-calc
> to beginner calc- and is doing real calulus now as a senior.
>
> FWIW - I got the 97% on the high school thing. Then I took the "genius"
> quiz. I think I missed which country is landlocked in Samerica. And maybe
> the logic question - didn't like their operator notation.
>
> ellice
>