I got the brains, U got the looks let's make lotsa money!. . .U.S. science & math scores vs other countries. . .

[NewtonMP2100]

. . .not a big surprise. . .


Study Compares States’ Math and Science Scores With Other Countries’


. . .American students even in low-performing states like Alabama do better on math and science tests than students in most foreign countries, including Italy and Norway, according to a new study released yesterday. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that students in Singapore and several other Asian countries significantly outperform American students, even those in high-achieving states like Massachusetts, the study found. . .

[AAA]

good thing many folks don't use math and science (advanced aspects) in their daily wage-earning/life-funding work.

[ztirffritz]

[quote AAA]good thing many folks don't use math and science (advanced aspects) in their daily wage-earning/life-funding work.
Most people could if they knew how. I use both math and science daily, and I'm an IT Manager.

[Jimmypoo]

Higher math, daily??

A friend of mine is a EE/CE (Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering) at Texas Instruments, and he says that he uses more math doing his checkbook than he does for the code he writes for embedded software.

And he's been at it for many years, including writing test protocols, etc.

Does your web/mail server require having taken Multivariate Calculus, Differential Equations & Linear Algebra?

[AAA]

I struggled to explain (remember, really) last night while doing fractions with my son why .999999999 not only approaches (in a calculation) 1, but actually becomes 1 at infinity.

Of course I was not sitting at a wiki-station to look it up, either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...

[Jimmypoo]

Are you two going to wait around that long until it becomes "1" ?




edit
btw..... cool link! I was going to read about it -- then I found four images to download
of .999999999999999999!!

Now the answer doesn't matter!

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[AAA]

Hey, I did good to struggle to REMEMBER that the fraction he was looking at , the repeating part not only approaches but becomes infinity. The poor little 9 year old brain froze on him, though. I asked him to have his teacher see if they could show how this was, via proof or something.

[kj4btkljv]

[quote AAA]Hey, I did good to struggle to REMEMBER that the fraction he was looking at , the repeating part not only approaches but becomes infinity. The poor little 9 year old brain froze on him, though. I asked him to have his teacher see if they could show how this was, via proof or something.
Nine year olds are working on this stuff at school? Man, I'm in trouble when my kids get old enough to start bringing Calc, Trig, and advanced math home for homework... I don't know any of that stuff to be able to help them out. They will probably already know that by then, and won't bother asking me.

Just wave as you walk past daddy's cage.



Jeff

[AAA]

yeah, they are in advanced/gifted program. He's actually surpassing my older (also in advanced) son's math. They are out-accelerating the younger one(s) past the already accelerated one. It makes for interesting dinner table talk.

[cbelt3]

I haven't been able to do calculus for about 20 years. I stopped using it at work (moved to software based simulations). I can't speak Portuguese any more either, and my French is tres mal..

You use it, or you lose it.