Random thoughts

[Karen]

Aww, whenever it seems hopeless, PM me, and I promise to lend you some!

[cassiesmom]

PTers, can someone please tell me what a "Trunk or Treat" is? A local church is having one tomorrow from 2 to 4. My neighbor mentioned it to me because they need more participants. I have no idea what it is (I assume it's something to do with Halloween though).


Thanks,
Elyse

[Karen]

"A Trunk or Treat is a Halloween event that is often church- or community-sponsored. People gather and park their cars in a large parking lot. They open their trunks, or the backs of their vehicles, and decorate them. Then they pass out candy from their trunks. The event provides a safe family environment for trick or treaters."

It is apparently a big thing! I had never heard of it either - probably popular in places that have bigger church parking lots than we do!

[pomtzu]

It amazes me how something simple can set someone off, and in the process, they reveal their true colors which aren't pretty at all. Actually, I find it to be quite sad.....

[Lady's Human]

Calculators are REQUIRED for 6th grade math..........

Tell me again why people need a register to make change for them?

[Alysser]

Calculators are REQUIRED for 6th grade math..........

Tell me again why people need a register to make change for them?

Graphing Calculators are required for my college math class, but we can't use them on the tests.

[Cataholic]

Calculators are REQUIRED for 6th grade math..........

Tell me again why people need a register to make change for them?

It would make my life a lot simpler if I was a cashier, or someone regularly dealing with money, to have a calculator at the ready. For years, I was ashamed of my flat out inability to do even simple math calculations. I have been very, very, very poor with math- even basic "simple" math my entire life, and have a difficult time subtracting double digits, even from a hundred. Make it something like 116 - 38 = ??? and it certainly takes me a minute to figure it out.

Really, who cares? It hasn't made me a terrible person, and I have other areas of strength, for sure. But, I bet, in the darkest hour, most of us can admit we just really stink at something.

[Lady's Human]

I care, because my daughter is in the aforementioned math class, and they are requiring students to learn to use a scientific calculator before they have the basics down.

They're using calculators for fractions.

Unsat.


Crawl....walk....run.

In addition, I just had to make corrections on a homework assignment which wouldn't have been required if she was doing things out by hand.

[Lady's Human]

It would make my life a lot simpler if I was a cashier, or someone regularly dealing with money, to have a calculator at the ready. For years, I was ashamed of my flat out inability to do even simple math calculations. I have been very, very, very poor with math- even basic "simple" math my entire life, and have a difficult time subtracting double digits, even from a hundred. Make it something like 116 - 38 = ??? and it certainly takes me a minute to figure it out.

Really, who cares? It hasn't made me a terrible person, and I have other areas of strength, for sure. But, I bet, in the darkest hour, most of us can admit we just really stink at something.

As an addendum....

I can certainly admit that I have issues with certain tasks.

However, pardon the heck out of me for trying to ensure that my daughter actually CAN do math in her head without the use of a calculator.

Being a lawyer may not require the ability to do calculations, but any technical field requires it.