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DrPizza

DrPizza

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New common core curriculum coming out. Many schools will be looking for new textbooks. A sales rep for one of the major publishers contacted me and offered to send us samples of the new textbook series.

High school geometry textbook: ONE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED, and FORTY PAGES!!! HOLY SHIT! If I had to carry the geometry, algebra, algebra II, pre-algebra, and pre-calculus textbooks at the same time, I'd get a hernia!

To the taxpayers who ultimately pay for these books: I'm telling the publisher to pound sand. They've gotta be kidding. 1140 pages for a high school math textbook? And they're really excited about how good it is?!
 
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guyver01

guyver01

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i'm not surprised... our 6 year old is in first grade, and they're doing "new math" ...

to add 10 + 10... you can't add 10+10

you have to add 5+5 and 5+5

shit takes twice as long... no wonder the text book is 1100+ pages
 
Fenixgoon

Fenixgoon

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how much shit do they have in there? my geometry book was a few hundred pages at best.
 
schneiderguy

schneiderguy

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guyver01 said:
i'm not surprised... our 6 year old is in first grade, and they're doing "new math" ...

to add 10 + 10... you can't add 10+10

you have to add 5+5 and 5+5

shit takes twice as long... no wonder the text book is 1100+ pages
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But then wouldn't you still have to add 10+10? :hmm::hmm:
 
MotionMan

MotionMan

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guyver01 said:
i'm not surprised... our 6 year old is in first grade, and they're doing "new math" ...

to add 10 + 10... you can't add 10+10

you have to add 5+5 and 5+5

shit takes twice as long... no wonder the text book is 1100+ pages
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My kids are learning Singapore Math. The only good news is that I cannot help them with their math homework. ;)

MotionMan
 
T

the DRIZZLE

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DrPizza said:
No common core curriculum coming out. Many schools will be looking for new textbooks. A sales rep for one of the major publishers contacted me and offered to send us samples of the new textbook series.

High school geometry textbook: ONE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED, and FORTY PAGES!!! HOLY SHIT! If I had to carry the geometry, algebra, algebra II, pre-algebra, and pre-calculus textbooks at the same time, I'd get a hernia!

To the taxpayers who ultimately pay for these books: I'm telling the publisher to pound sand. They've gotta be kidding. 1140 pages for a high school math textbook? And they're really excited about how good it is?!
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They have to include all those recent innovations in geometry.
 
FoBoT

FoBoT

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we are working with our schools librarians to start testing kindle's and tablets to use electronic textbooks
 
BoomerD

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MotionMan said:
One word: iPad.

MotionMan
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Fuck that. Textbooks are expensive enough...who's going to pay for the iPads for the students?
It's not like the textbook publishing companies are going to give away the electronic versions...
 
SKORPI0

SKORPI0

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The Calculus book by Louis Leithold (mid 70's) was >1000 pages and I wasn't complaining. :hmm:
 
Gibsons

Gibsons

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DrPizza said:
New common core curriculum coming out. Many schools will be looking for new textbooks. A sales rep for one of the major publishers contacted me and offered to send us samples of the new textbook series.

High school geometry textbook: ONE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED, and FORTY PAGES!!! HOLY SHIT! If I had to carry the geometry, algebra, algebra II, pre-algebra, and pre-calculus textbooks at the same time, I'd get a hernia!

To the taxpayers who ultimately pay for these books: I'm telling the publisher to pound sand. They've gotta be kidding. 1140 pages for a high school math textbook? And they're really excited about how good it is?!
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Sounds like they had a committee decide what would be in it.
 
MotionMan

MotionMan

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DrPizza said:
If I had to carry the geometry, algebra, algebra II, pre-algebra, and pre-calculus textbooks at the same time, I'd get a hernia!
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BoomerD said:
Fuck that. Textbooks are expensive enough...who's going to pay for the iPads for the students?
It's not like the textbook publishing companies are going to give away the electronic versions...
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An iPad is not going to give anyone a hernia.

MotionMan
 
vshah

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ussfletcher said:
The same people that are going to pay for a new book every few years anyway.
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except you know the publishers are going to charge just as much or even more for the "enhanced digital edition" so the poor student will end up paying more.
 
ussfletcher

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vshah said:
except you know the publishers are going to charge just as much or even more for the "enhanced digital edition" so the poor student will end up paying more.
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I didn't pay for any of my books in High School, and I have bought a few textbooks on kindle for college and they are cheaper than the physical copy.
 
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