How many inches are in a foot? Ask YOUR kids!
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If you learned basic math (which you must have, because your weren't busy learning the metric systemOriginally posted by d.kurz
For those of us who learned it. I did not!
) then you can do it! If you can multiply & divide by 10's, you can handle it! No lessons here, but all the names make sense & it's just so easy. It's the converting back forth that's tricky.I use hung & dove too!
As a college prof, I am sometimes amazed at the answers I get to what I 'THINK" are general knowledge questions.
In a frosh seminar I once asked students to write about how WWI started (and its relation to WWII)......the priceless answer: It was started by a guy with a gun. I supposed it was, basically, correct!
More recently my husband asked this question on a psychology History and Systems exam: What was the "Golden Age" of Greece, and what factors are thought to have been responsible?Answer from TWO students: "One of the factors that led to the Golden Age of Greece was the Protestant Reformation"
FYI - the Golden Age of Greece started in the 6th century B.C. - I wonder what all those Protestants were doing back then?
I do tell students that if I get a good belly laugh from their answer it IS worth 1 point!!!!
In a frosh seminar I once asked students to write about how WWI started (and its relation to WWII)......the priceless answer: It was started by a guy with a gun. I supposed it was, basically, correct!
More recently my husband asked this question on a psychology History and Systems exam: What was the "Golden Age" of Greece, and what factors are thought to have been responsible?Answer from TWO students: "One of the factors that led to the Golden Age of Greece was the Protestant Reformation"
FYI - the Golden Age of Greece started in the 6th century B.C. - I wonder what all those Protestants were doing back then?
I do tell students that if I get a good belly laugh from their answer it IS worth 1 point!!!!
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My DD 12 just woke up and I asked her these questions, she got them all right, she said, "Dad, who doesn't know these?"
Whew, makes me feel better!
Whew, makes me feel better!
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I have a history test on Monday. A 3 chapter test. 
History never was my thing...this will be a nightmare. My professor in pre-algebra is no help. His thing is...you learned this somewhere along the line. Yeah! In 7th and 8th grade over 30 years ago! 
So I suppose I'll be teaching myself Scientific Notation, because he's skipping it in class. 
History never was my thing...this will be a nightmare. My professor in pre-algebra is no help. His thing is...you learned this somewhere along the line. Yeah! In 7th and 8th grade over 30 years ago! So I suppose I'll be teaching myself Scientific Notation, because he's skipping it in class. /
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