yhelothar
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- Dec 11, 2002
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American educational system at work. I bet she's a college graduate too.
Yup. That was exactly my experience when I tutored math. Math is mindlessly through algorithms today. When I taught fractions, the kids learned to plug it in to the equation is/of=x/100. That is, for a problem asking, 5 is what percent of 20, you take the number before the word is, and put it over the number after the word of, and set it to x/100.
Then I ask them something simple like what is 50% of 10... and they're plugging it into the equation. D:
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