I am retiring this social media account. Find me as @hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange
Orlando, FL
Joined November 2008
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Can’t do much for broken toes anyway. Straighten it out and tape it to the one next to it until it heals. Rest and elevate. The usual stuff.
Hey @Publix, writing “Happy Birthday Carson” in icing on a piece of plastic and sticking it on top of a regular cake does not a birthday cake make. Unhappy with this custom bakery order for our son’s birthday.
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I’m not going to lie—Calculus this year with our daughter is a real struggle. But then I realize that if this is the worst struggle I have with our teenaged daughter, then I am really very fortunate indeed.
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1. SF Bay and Seattle to see friends
2. Tokyo&Kyoto trip postponed by COVID
3. Family Alaska trip postponed by COVID
4. Australia to catch up with my mates Downunder
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If you don’t have a built-in love of manipulating mathematical symbols, problems like this are just frustrating.
Right now our daughter's take-away is that math sucks and she's bad at it. But I keep battling through it with her.
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You want kids to not hate math? Stop making it about pointless symbolic manipulation and actually show them why calculus matters in the real world. Because it's really, really important.
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The kids are being taught to do this as a triple chain rule-- "(tan(3x^2))^(-1/2)". And the tangent requires them to remember their trig derivative identities. But there is no real-world case for any of this, so it's just abuse.
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I’m actually a big believer in Calculus. But that problem is just endless symbolic manipulation that has no real value. It’s simply a time-waster.
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Problem on daughter's calculus assignment:
"f(x)=1/sqrt(tan(3x^2)), calculate f'(x)"
<sarcasm>Wow, there are so many real-world applications where this might come up. I'm so glad she can spend her time on this!</sarcasm>
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Proud hacker father moment— our 12 year old figured out on his own how to use the inspector in his web browser and modify the Javascript to change the page look and feel. Wait until I tell him he can use it to cheat his favorite web games.
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