Popular Post Dottleshead ★ Posted January 12, 2019 Popular Post Share #1 Posted January 12, 2019 My wife is looking to advance her degree in the health field but is and has been stunted by the mathematics in her curriculum. She most likely is going to need an algebra class or two to get to where she wants to go -- and like so many -- she's had a fear of learning it. Math has literally held her back in her life as she's chosen other alternatives just to circumnavigate it. Well, I'm really proud of her as she has set her fear and ego aside, and decided to let me tutor her or at least prepare her for a more formal setting. We both want her to be in a more solid and comfortable position to take a class from the community college later this spring. Again, I can't tell you how proud I am of her and her willingness to tackle this fear head on. I am not a professional teacher but I know enough stuff to help her with her basic questions, fears, concerns, misunderstanding, and constructively show her mistakes. As a result, a strange thing has happened to me. I am feeling more fulfilled in being able to give back to her and it gives me a great sense of purpose watching her grow. We've just started a few nights ago and already I can see her gaining confidence. It gives me great joy knowing I am helping another human being -- let alone my wife -- removing a road block in her life while rewarding me with a usefulness I have not experienced in some time. I probably was born to be a teacher but unfortunately it's not enough to pay the bills to do full time. After some terrific sex, we actually went to bed talking math and discussed a Saturday bike ride. I feel I'm the luckiest man alive. 8 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted January 12, 2019 Share #2 Posted January 12, 2019 26 minutes ago, Dottles said: After some terrific sex, we actually went to bed talking math and discussed a Saturday bike ride. I feel I'm the luckiest man alive. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 12, 2019 Share #3 Posted January 12, 2019 Well uh, it's great to have stars align. ? I'm sure she will do better. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted January 12, 2019 Share #4 Posted January 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Dottles said: I probably was born to be a teacher but unfortunately it's not enough to pay the bills to do full time. It depends upon what you teach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted January 12, 2019 Share #5 Posted January 12, 2019 That’s great Dottie. And next week she teaches you paragraphs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted January 12, 2019 Share #6 Posted January 12, 2019 I returned to school several years after high school. I was brushing up on math, algebra in particular, my wife volunteered to help. I graciously turned down her help after she went through an equation and one of her steps was 'x cancles y' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 12, 2019 Share #7 Posted January 12, 2019 I come from a family of women, several who did their university degrees in applied sciences: medicine, engineering and life sciences (biology). I'm sure some could help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share #8 Posted January 12, 2019 I do algebra on my job, daily. Most people do and don't even know it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 12, 2019 Share #9 Posted January 12, 2019 10 minutes ago, Dottles said: I do algebra on my job, daily. Most people do and don't even know it You mean Boolean searching is actually simple algebra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 12, 2019 Share #10 Posted January 12, 2019 It is such a good thing that you can work together like this. Math is hard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share #11 Posted January 12, 2019 13 minutes ago, shootingstar said: I come from a family of women, several who did their university degrees in applied sciences: medicine, engineering and life sciences (biology). I'm sure some could help. Some of the brightest students in my upper division math classes were women. Math or software it seems doesn't have a preference for a penis or vagina. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted January 13, 2019 Share #12 Posted January 13, 2019 Make sure to teach her: Let a=1 and b=1 Then: a^2 = a^2 and ab = b^2 Subtracting: a^2 - ab = a^2 - b^2 Factoring out "a" on the left: a (a - b) = a^2 - b^2 Factoring the difference of two squares on the right: a (a -b) = (a + b)(a - b) Canceling out (a - b) on each side: a = a + b Substituting values: 1 = 2 Hint: If you don't see the mistake, I used to stump my calculus-taking gifted and talented physics students with this to teach them why you can't divide by zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share #13 Posted January 13, 2019 4 minutes ago, MickinMD said: ....you can't divide by zero. Sure you can. Makes for some of the best crashes out there. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted January 13, 2019 Share #14 Posted January 13, 2019 So cool that she's willing to tackle something that's not easy for her in order to achieve her goals, and great that you can help her along the way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share #15 Posted January 13, 2019 2 hours ago, Kzoo said: That’s great Dottie. And next week she teaches you paragraphs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 13, 2019 Share #16 Posted January 13, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted January 13, 2019 Share #17 Posted January 13, 2019 Here is me tutoring my wife in history as she's a lot smarter in math than me. True story... The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor not the Americans. What, no, the Americans bombed Pearl Harbor. It's an American base, why would we bomb our own base? Are you sure? Positive. I don't believe you. OK but I'm still right. They used the atomic bomb on it, yeah we bombed Pearl Harbor...? She bombed the test but did pass the class. Years later we took the kids to Hawaii and went to Pear Harbor. I teased her about us bombing it which didn't go over too well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share #18 Posted January 20, 2019 So we got through the associated property of addition and multiplication. That was pretty easy for her to get her mind around as I could easily apply it to real world examples -- showing her that it doesn't matter how the operands are ordered or grouped -- as long as the operands are all using addition. However, the distributive property for multiplication and division started pushing her. She had enough and reached her limit. It was good though because I think I know where she is at in this process. So tonight we start back with the very, very basics. We start way back and she has devoted herself to doing the work. Math is a do it yourself exercise that you learn through repetition. There's no better way. She's going to go back and rehash her division, fractions, and percentages. I told her it's good she knows the basics cold and she agrees. She actually wants to do it. Awesome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted January 21, 2019 Share #19 Posted January 21, 2019 On 1/12/2019 at 7:37 PM, Dottles said: ............................snip.................................... After some terrific sex, we actually went to bed talking math and discussed a Saturday bike ride. I feel I'm the luckiest man alive. I'm really jealous of you being able to talk maths.....seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share #20 Posted January 21, 2019 4 hours ago, onbike1939 said: I'm really jealous of you being able to talk maths.....seriously. It's a definite aphrodisiac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted January 21, 2019 Share #21 Posted January 21, 2019 2 hours ago, Dottles said: It's a definite aphrodisiac. As far as I'm concerned that just doesn't add up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted January 21, 2019 Author Share #22 Posted January 21, 2019 1 hour ago, onbike1939 said: As far as I'm concerned that just doesn't add up. Au contraire. When you suffocate the id-ish desires of lust with dominant super-ego oppression like math, sex is gonna happen. Maybe coke, booze, and hookers too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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