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March 4th, 2019 at 4:41:51 PM permalink

Wizard

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Maybe math teachers need to take some kind of class in college that just shows them how to be an exciting teacher?

I took all the required courses to get my California teaching credential. Just lacking my semester student teaching. In that whole year of classes for my credential, I learned very little that would have helped in the classroom. Many classes I had to take had nothing to do with teaching high school math, like the latest theories on teaching reading. However, in my opinion, teaching is the kind of still that you can't learn in a classroom on how to teach, but rather in a real classroom that YOU teach. I'm sure experience helps, but the best teachers are just naturals at it.

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I'd be interested to hear more detail on this. I remember you mentioning you taught a class. I would think you would make a class more interesting than others. Would probably be a good Massive Open Online Course.

I had such a wide ability level in my class it was challenging to keep everybody engaged.

I am planning to make more videos on how to calculate odds for simple casino games like craps and keno. Not a formal course, but we'll see where it leads. No, I'm going to do the lessons with body paint on naked women.

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March 4th, 2019 at 4:48:11 PM permalink
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011	Quote: Wizard I Not a formal course, but we'll see where it leads. No, I'm going to do the lessons with body paint on naked women. You joke, but those videos would be very popular. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

March 4th, 2019 at 4:59:49 PM permalink

AZDuffman

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Quote: Wizard
I took all the required courses to get my California teaching credential. Just lacking my semester student teaching. In that whole year of classes for my credential, I learned very little that would have helped in the classroom. Many classes I had to take had nothing to do with teaching high school math, like the latest theories on teaching reading. However, in my opinion, teaching is the kind of still that you can't learn in a classroom on how to teach, but rather in a real classroom that YOU teach. I'm sure experience helps, but the best teachers are just naturals at it.

I think the first part is knowing how to what I call "controlling the room." When I was first in management I had to do lots of trainings. It really took about a year to get it and a few to do it without trying. Later when we promoted an office woman to service manager I tried to instill this in her but I got clipped before I could really develop her skills. Its a "presence" that you must have. When you are giving the lesson, you are in charge. If you have that presence the students are drawn and pay attention. If not, they do not learn.

I can see in 20 years many students will just home-school with online courses taught by the best of the best.

The President is a fink.

March 4th, 2019 at 5:25:36 PM permalink

Mosca

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Quote: Pacomartin
The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 slashed the highest rate from 70 to 50 percent, and indexed the brackets for inflation. Then, the Tax Reform Act of 1986, claiming that it was a two-tiered flat tax, expanded the tax base and dropped the top rate to 28 percent for tax years beginning in 1988.4 The hype here was that the broader base contained fewer deductions, but brought in the same revenue. Further, lawmakers claimed that they would never have to raise the 28 percent top rate.
The 28 percent top rate promise lasted three years before it was broken.During the 1990s, the top rate jumped to 39.6 percent.

I was married in 1987 and I remember my ex-wife taking financial planning courses. The instructor said that since the tax rate was now 31% if their clients wanted to take home $100K after taxes they needed to make $131K before taxes. Susan said wasn't the figure closer to $150K. The instructor yelled at her and said that the top tax rate hadn't been 50% since 1986.

Not a single person in the class including the instructor knew the difference between adding a percentage or taking away a percentage.

Or when I was making too much money and my boss decided to cut my commission rate from 12% to 10%, telling me it was only a 2% cut. Yeah, to YOU it’s only 2%. To me it’s 16.67%. (I got a different job paying 17%.)

March 4th, 2019 at 5:28:32 PM permalink

Mosca

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Quote: Wizard
I took all the required courses to get my California teaching credential. Just lacking my semester student teaching. In that whole year of classes for my credential, I learned very little that would have helped in the classroom. Many classes I had to take had nothing to do with teaching high school math, like the latest theories on teaching reading. However, in my opinion, teaching is the kind of still that you can't learn in a classroom on how to teach, but rather in a real classroom that YOU teach. I'm sure experience helps, but the best teachers are just naturals at it.

I had such a wide ability level in my class it was challenging to keep everybody engaged.

I am planning to make more videos on how to calculate odds for simple casino games like craps and keno. Not a formal course, but we'll see where it leads. No, I'm going to do the lessons with body paint on naked women.

I think you would be a pretty good teacher. You get to the nut of the matter, and you convey the thing about it that you find interesting.

March 5th, 2019 at 9:50:10 AM permalink

DRich

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Quote: Mosca
I think you would be a pretty good teacher. You get to the nut of the matter, and you convey the thing about it that you find interesting.

I disagree. I do not think the Wizard has the charisma that I believe the best teachers possess. I have always been very jealous of charismatic people as i don't have any charisma.

At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent.

March 5th, 2019 at 11:47:32 AM permalink

Pacomartin

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Quote: Mosca
Or when I was making too much money and my boss decided to cut my commission rate from 12% to 10%, telling me it was only a 2% cut. Yeah, to YOU it’s only 2%. To me it’s 16.67%. (I got a different job paying 17%.)

I had a REALTOR actually say to me that variable rate mortgages weren't so bad because they only went up 1% or 2% a year, and you could always count on your salary going up by 1% or 2%.

I wanted to ask her if she understood the concept of a mortgage.

March 5th, 2019 at 11:51:58 AM permalink

Evenbob

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Quote: Pacomartin
I had a REALTOR actually say to me that variable rate mortgages weren't so bad because they only went up 1% or 2% a year, and you could always count on your salary going up by 1% or 2%. I wanted to ask her if she understood the concept of a mortgage.

I know so little about math that her
explanation makes sense to me on
the surface.

If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.

March 5th, 2019 at 11:58:32 AM permalink
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18204	Quote: Pacomartin I had a REALTOR actually say to me that variable rate mortgages weren't so bad because they only went up 1% or 2% a year, and you could always count on your salary going up by 1% or 2%. I wanted to ask her if she understood the concept of a mortgage. I bet she can calculate 1.5% of any number you give her though. The President is a fink.

March 5th, 2019 at 11:59:58 AM permalink

Pacomartin

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Quote: Evenbob
I know so little about math that her
explanation makes sense to me on
the surface.

The 2% of a mortgage is on the amount of money you owe on the house which could be easily 3X your salary. So you already need a 6% raise to cover the 2% jump in your interest payment. In addition your salary has social security and other deductions, so now you may need 8%-10% raise to cover the increase in mortgage payment.

Also most of your other payments are going up as well, so you are probably counting on part of that raise to go to other increases. A 2% jump in mortgage interest corresponds to a fairly large raise.

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