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[LittleMissPurdy]

All:

Some math stuff...

A numbers game..... http://www.live-sudoku.com/sudoku-online

and for Blarney, this is what you are looking for......

http://www.mathsisfun.com/pythagoras.html

geez, I'm turning into a thread hog being preachy about math...


PS:

LMP, she's quite a cutie!

I never took the time to get into that 'sudoku' stuff....maybe i should

..might help with the memory
Thanks, I think she is a cutie too, but I am a little bias...

She is a cutie. Look at the smile!

As a teenager I worked at the Englishtown flea market for about 6 years. I had to add and subtract in my head on the spot. No time to try to figure it out with a calculator. The easiest way to give change for me was to count back, example the total was $6 and someone would give me a $10 I would say to the customer, 7, 8, 9, 10 as I handed them their change. That way they could see how much change they got and hear it so everyone was happy.

I am excited today. I have 3 pips going on in my incubator. Tomorrow was the due date. I can't wait to see what my banty Polish (white crested black) and my large fowl golden laced roo chick will look like. Yup that egg is one of the first to pip with a big hole!



And my Polish mix

, love seeing that!

My turn to thread-hog

...got some pics of the chicks w/ momma this-morning..and we did get a bunch acomplished yertady, between the rain drops!!
The trees are in , closest is cherry- apple- peach w/ the leaves at the far end. Also was able to plant the onion sets and I see the garlic has come up!! Things are looking good right now, hopefully this trend will continue!



love the one in the back.."BBQ WHAT?!"



***bought a new rubber bowl for their feed, it was $8.00 at walmart..lots cheaper than anywhere else, and it is huge!

I think they wear as much as they eat..

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Have a great day everyone! Gonna be a nice one

!!

 

[SilkieSensation]

 
All:

Some math stuff...

A numbers game..... http://www.live-sudoku.com/sudoku-online

and for Blarney, this is what you are looking for......

http://www.mathsisfun.com/pythagoras.html

geez, I'm turning into a thread hog being preachy about math...


PS:

LMP, she's quite a cutie!

I love sudoku puzzlems... and math division problems in the puzzle books.
I used to do math problems in my head to amuse myself on long trips when driving by myself... if I passed a mile marker I would compute how many miles left vs speed vs fuel consumption and add in time for fuel stops and see when to expect to arrive. In fact, I still do it... I also do it while driving the boat, I have gauges with readings for fuel consumption per hour and all sorts of other readings.  I can tell you at 4600 rpm, 27 mph I can get 2.8 gallon per hour.... our typical run to fishing grounds on Lake Erie is 30 to 35 minutes, so makes the time go quicker to do the math...

I still do my check book balancing on paper, I rarely pick up a calculator for anything

I still do my checkbook by hand too. The only time I break out the calculator is when I go thru it twice & my balance still doesn't match what the bank says.

 

[DylansMom]

This is the math they teach now. It's called common core.

If I'm not mistaken those would be "lattice method" and "partial product algorithm". I have a son in third grade and when he first came to me for help with these I wasn't sure what language I was looking at! Thankfully they are also teaching the "traditional" method which is what all of us old farts were taught. Many years/decades (

) ago my first 2 jobs were in little ice cream parlors, during both job interviews I was expected to make change in my head and verbally tell the boss my answers, luckily I can make change so I got the jobs. Now days they probably aren't even allowed to do that in an interview( not PC enough). Recently I stopped at one of those roadside Easter flower stands to pick up some after Easter markdowns. When I got to the point of paying I knew what my total should be and what change I should get from the 20 I was paying with. Turns out they were charging sales tax, no big deal, I can do that in my head as well. The young man who was working there started adding up my purchases on his little calculator which promptly quit functioning. I have never seen such a terrified "Deer in the Headlights" look come over someone's face. No matter how many buttons he pushed it was not working. I then verbally added everything for him out loud, told him the sales tax on that and added it then told him the change I should get from my 20. Guess what.........he didn't believe me. He was actually looking around for someone to come save him from the crazy math lady.

There was no one, we were totally alone and I went over it all again as nicely and slowly as I could. He looks around again. At that point I went to my car rooted around in my purse until I found this ancient solar calculator I'd had for like 20 years, still working. Took it back and handed it to him, he promptly totaled everything and discovered I was not trying to rip him off. Now he's looking at "Crazy math lady" with a little fear and awe, and tells me I'm really good at math. I thanked him and told him to keep the calculator because he needed it more than me. He was so happy, he didn't even notice my undertone of pity. This is a funny story, but it is also so sad on many levels. I will make sure my son can make change in his head.

 

[wingstone]

Genetics, now they confuse the ### out of me.
The bantam Cochin are hatching mostly black, that pen is the mille fleur ( need to talk to blarney to get the background on them) and the one Wheaton rooster...so can I assume that Wheaton over mille fleur will throw black.

 

[ambergordon]

Wish I could have stayed at wings until you got there, but I had a busy day! would have liked to meet you. Wing has a nice setup and likes to educate.

Wing, thanks for the Bob. Didn't check him this morning yet. Hope your hubby finds time to plant the taters.

No problem, maybe next time! I always like to meet chicken people. The weirdest part was sticking your hand up there, but i got the hang of it i think. This will be one of the most rewarding experiences and my family's first journey into self sufficiency. Yay!!

 

[Penny Hen]

Wing:

Its not an education issue per sey....there have always been folks who can't read, write, or do math....I think as you get older you become more aware of it....also, in by gone days the cash register didn't do the math for you so you needed to make change....now the machine thinks for you so you don't....

That is the very point when you let the machines do the thinking for your Science may as well be Magic. It becomes indistinguishable.

 

[chiques chicks]

At one time I had a little race car (microsprint) with chain drive off a motorcycle engine. My partner was a high school dropout who thought math didn't matter. I taught him gear ratio calculations vs tie size vs power bands vs desired dotted, etc. Yes, he learned, understood, and became quite proficient in math in a short time. Rather complicated calculations, too. it's simply a matter of putting things in a context that has meaning to a person.

That is true of many things. If a person understand and can relate to something that matters to them, it becomes interesing and meaningful.

My chicken math is getting out of hand. Bad incubator, bad, I say!

 

[randerson846]

Does anybody know if ducklings would be able to drink and eat from these

 

[fisherlady]

At one time I had a little race car (microsprint) with chain drive off a motorcycle engine. My partner was a high school dropout who thought math didn't matter. I taught him gear ratio calculations vs tie size vs power bands vs desired dotted, etc. Yes, he learned, understood, and became quite proficient in math in a short time. Rather complicated calculations, too. it's simply a matter of putting things in a context that has meaning to a person.

That is true of many things. If a person understand and can relate to something that matters to them, it becomes interesing and meaningful.

My chicken math is getting out of hand. Bad incubator, bad, I say!

Very, very true!!

 

[Penny Hen]

Genetics, now they confuse the ### out of me.
The bantam Cochin are hatching mostly black, that pen is the mille fleur ( need to talk to blarney to get the background on them) and the one Wheaton rooster...so can I assume that Wheaton over mille fleur will throw black.

Did you ever play the card game Spades (a simplified version of Bridge)? Genetics are like Spades where their are genes that function like the Spade cards that can trump any other suit. In color genetics that would equate to Dominant White. Then their are genes like the Diamond cards which can trump anything but a Spade. Then their are the Hearts which can can trump the Clubs. And poor recessive Clubs just doesn't get to show unless it it the only cards on the table.

Now this is a loose analogy. It doesn't explain co-dominance where two equally dominant genes express simultaneously. If you were to force a Spades analogy then these genes would be Hearts. I have found that a familiar Loose Analogy is sometimes a good framework to start an understanding of a subject and you just catalog the differences in the Analogy to the Reality of the situation.