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2017-11-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

13 Baltimore high schools, no students proficient in math, report says

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-09 08:10|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 If Tyrone's nine can hold 17 rounds...

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-11-09 08:14|| 2017-11-09 08:14|| Front Page Top

#2 To be effective, math must be tailored to needs:

If your '9' magazine holds 17 rounds, how many times can you reload from a box of 50 cartridges ?

Two boxes of 50 cartridges ?

A case of 1000 cartridges ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-09 08:19|| 2017-11-09 08:19|| Front Page Top

#3 How many hits are in a shipment? How much to charge for each hit? What's the shipment worth?

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-11-09 08:39|| 2017-11-09 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 I'll bet some of them can total up cash in their head faster than you or I

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-11-09 08:39|| 2017-11-09 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 It's the racist algebra - the idea of variable that fail most, BP.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-11-09 09:16|| 2017-11-09 09:16|| Front Page Top

#6 I misread it as "13 Baltimore high schools, no students, proficient in math."

Posted by texhooey 2017-11-09 12:47|| 2017-11-09 12:47|| Front Page Top

#7 How about philosophy? You can examine deep questions like "Does reloading include the one in the chamber?"

Posted by gorb 2017-11-09 13:17|| 2017-11-09 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 If Tyrone's nine can hold 17 rounds...

How many in 17+1?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-11-09 13:39|| 2017-11-09 13:39|| Front Page Top

#9 How many grams in an ounce? An 8-ball?

Posted by Frank G 2017-11-09 14:37|| 2017-11-09 14:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Po' 'fessor of Diddie Wah Diddie,
Dis city pacific and pretty,
Desirous to tell us,
But spooked by his fellas:
"Ain't hearda no Schrödinger's kitty!"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-11-09 15:10|| 2017-11-09 15:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Are they using Common Core math?

If so they are probably ahead of the game by failing cause that ain't really math.

Posted by AlanC 2017-11-09 19:03|| 2017-11-09 19:03|| Front Page Top

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