Tom Lehrer: New Math

For those of you who didn't know, they used to teach mathematics a little differently. Here's how they do it now.

Song: New Math
Artist: Tom Lehrer
Album: That Was the Year that Was

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[YouGot4Shotted]

What's a pirate minus the ship?

[lipsynchORswim]

@YouGot4Shotted An alcoholic bum.

[Arexsos]

But would the answer in Base 10 be equal to the one in Base 8?

[lipsynchORswim]

@Arexsos Yes, they're both equal, but because they are in different bases, the numbers are different. Just like how 100 in binary is equal to 4 in Base 10.

[RJtheStAr1]

69



[steve19541000]

odd.....i just wrote the last post, and it showed up under someone else's name.....mine is sailinglady and i am obviously female!

[steve19541000]

so.....reasoning is only allowed to be called reasoning if it can be spoken or written? hmmmmmmm......that's really a disservice, i think, for people who are not articulate. and, glamador, im not sure that "old taught" people ever encountered real math. as an "old taught person, arithmetic was the norm and math was the exception. and i have a BS and MS in mathematics.

[Glamador]

As someone who has interacted on a regular basis with family members and friends who are "bad at math" I can state with 100% certainty that so-called "new math" is better for bringing up children with an understanding that better allows them to comprehend the concepts needed for more complicated mathematics than addition and subtraction.

It may seem like this is a stupid round-about way of doing things, but I see so many old-taught people with *ZERO* understanding of real math.

[SHTrough]

[SYNTAX ERROR]

[kodo690690]

@ui0ekim52 147 (8) = 169 (10).

[sjsingleton68]

@YouGot4Shotted he is correct on what he is saying. the new math is rather for dummies. we are from a different day of teaching and teachers; a totaly different format. In the third grade the teacher will give the child the problem of 4+4= well we all now the answer is 8. if the child should be taught about reasoning and he answer with 8 it will be marked wrong because he did not use reasoning to get the answer.

[ui0ekim52]

@lipsynchorswim The answers are different in Base 10 and in Base 8, because the starting numbers represent values that are fundamentally different. You can indeed verify that 147 (8) = 103 (10).

[wolfmyth007]

"Is that clear?"

Yes, yes it is!

[NumbFlynn]

@lipsynchORswim Just a creative homeless guy.