Re: Harvard Pres: Women Lack Ability In Math, Sciences

From: George (george_at_wtfiswrongwithyou.com)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:45:07 GMT

<jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote in message news:vK2dnT1uyY0ka23cRVn-3Q@rcn.net...
> In article <10uvoabjimevkac@corp.supernews.com>,
> Jo Schaper <joschapern4ospam@2socketdot.no5net> wrote:
>>Ralph Nesbitt wrote:
>><snip>
>>>
>>> Anyone familiar with a "Framing Square" is familiar with the abilities
> to
>>> compute various things using one. Was taught by my G'Father how to
> figure
>>> various things using a framing square. My Algebra 1 teacher in high
> school
>>> was amazed that I could use a piece of string & a framing square to
> solve
>>> any algebra problem he could present. He was good with a slide rule, but
> it
>>> took him some time to appreciate using base multiples with a framing
> square
>>> as you would with a slide rule.
>>> Ralph Nesbitt.
>>>
>>
>>Wow. I never thought about that before, but by Jove, you're right! It's
>>just one quadrant of an intersecting number grid.
>>
>>We could get into an entire subthread about how much practical math is
>>needed by those "dumb" blue-collar tradesmen, (after being in printing,
>> I *know*) but we needn't do so.
>
> If you think about farmers, you can add economics, biology, geology,
> and most everything else.
>
>> ..Same thing applies to altering recipes
>>to get a larger or smaller quantity of a dish, without messing up the
>>taste. I good cook knows math, either overtly, or by sight. My grandma
>>was a 'sight cook'-- she owned measuring spoons only for something she'd
>>never made before, but it always came out the same. I didn't have her
>>experience, so I quantified several of her recipes by watching her do it.
>
> Yup. Now think about quilters and tiling geometry.
>>
>>Maybe things went south when we dropped 'manual training' in favor of
>>computers and instant pre-prepared everything.
>
> Possibly. I don't think so. Things went south when people
> weren't taught to work. Look at kids these days. They're
> not allowed to play (which is the job of kids) without tons
> of constraints. I used to be able to tell if a person was
> a Democrat by learning if they ever had to work as kid :-).
> I found no exceptions back then; they never had to work.
>
> /BAH
>
> Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.

That certainly is a load of nonsense. I'm a Democrat and I had my first job as
a paperboy when I was 14.

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