They made you do trig? Isn’t that a bit advanced for there average audience?
should be standard high school math..They made you do trig? Isn’t that a bit advanced for there average audience?
People were different in the 70s. Model rocketeers were willing to take on math challenges, unlike many kids to day. If you presented a math challenge to many of today's youth, they'd become TRIG-gered!They made you do trig? Isn’t that a bit advanced for there average audience?
People were different in the 70s. Model rocketeers were willing to take on math challenges, unlike many kids to day. If you presented a math challenge to many of today's youth, they'd become TRIG-gered!
It’s available, I all thought it’s renamed as pre calc. But it’s not a requirement so I imagine the classroom is not very full. (You can stop after algebra)should be standard high school math..
maybe it was in the 70's, now replaced with compassion & cuddle classes in the 2020's..
It’s available, I all thought it’s renamed as pre calc. But it’s not a requirement so I imagine the classroom is not very full. (You can stop after algebra)
This was a big part of how they could justify model rocketry as educational. Of course, we still say that, and it still is, but it's not as hard core as doing trig to compute altitude.They made you do trig? Isn’t that a bit advanced for there average audience?
I had a skim of the surface of trig in Algebra II, and more advanced trig in Pre-Calc. Algebra II wasn't mandatory, I don't remember if Geometry was, but the classroom has plenty of students.It’s available, I all thought it’s renamed as pre calc. But it’s not a requirement so I imagine the classroom is not very full. (You can stop after algebra)
Ohh boy I guess I’ll be able to replace my egg timer next yearI had a skim of the surface of trig in Algebra II
On a more serious note, engineering was more popular back then, now lots of people who would have tried for engineering do welding because it pays much better and welding doesn’t need math (although machining does).I had a skim of the surface of trig in Algebra II, and more advanced trig in Pre-Calc. Algebra II wasn't mandatory, I don't remember if Geometry was, but the classroom has plenty of students.
And who don't get that, if you really need that degree of accuracy, either you're doing something wrong or you need to do something to get it other than put it on the drawing. Some of us engineers do get it, some don't.I have to deal with some engs who expect ±.01" over 6 bends on a piece of sheet metal, just because that's what the computer / CAD spits out..
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This was the first concert my wife ever saw. I thought Toni was hot when I was a kid.The Captain and Tenille
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Early in college I was in a White Castle at 3am after a night across the river. I went to the restroom after I ate. The restrooms were tiny back then, just a stall and a sink, both sharing a common hallway. I walked around the corner and found a 30-something woman, obviously having had a few, holding the ladies room door open so that everyone could see her friend. She was laying on the floor, laughing and laying on the floor under the stall door. She decided to save the $.10 and got stuck. I remember thinking "I'll never get that wasted." Sadly, that was not correct, and in the same general area.Here I sit,
Broken Hearted.
Paid a dime
And only farted.
(For you young'uns, would you believe that in some places you had to pay to use the toilet?)
What the actual heck, I started doing trig in 7th grade pre-algebra. If they are seriously not doing trig until pre-calc now, that's a serious disservice to students.It’s available, I all thought it’s renamed as pre calc. But it’s not a requirement so I imagine the classroom is not very full. (You can stop after algebra)
I ask my son about Trig and he said Trig What when he was in high school.Our "college prep" track for math started in 7th grade and went pre-algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Trig, then Calculus. I almost flunked Algebra 2 due to troubles at home. But I had a really good trig/calc teacher.
Her daughter was in our class, too. A bit awkward sometimes...
Trigonometry is now part of Algebra II.I ask my son about Trig and he said Trig What when he was in high school.
Ok. I trust you. I had Algebra, Algebra II, Trig, Calculus and Trig II in high school. Match that with Biology, chemistry I, Physics, and Chem II. I think I had a well rounded education in science.Trigonometry is now part of Algebra II.
That was before RPN and even before TI's first LED 5 function calculator.Not back then... I finally upgraded to a Reverse Polish Notation scientific calculator instead of the paper calculators.
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Odds are based on the colors both were made by Skil to be a "house brand" for JC Penney. I have a Monkey (Montgomery) Ward branded welder (SMAW) and it was actually made by Century which is now a division of Lincoln Welding. Sears had a similar deal with Emerson and other companies, many Craftsman power tools were rebranded Black and Decker, Skil, etc. Gun makers BTW have been doing the house brand thing for over 150 years, for example Western Field shotguns many were Mossbergs or Stevens among other brands.Different subject, more to the thread:
I'm a child of the 50's, but my oldest son is such a child of the 70's that he was born on Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 1976, the bicentennial of the good old USA. He amazed us by somehow coming up with these:
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If you're wondering what the big deal is, zoom up to see who is listed as the manufacturer. And yes, they work wonderfully.
Not me, in less the pythagorean theorem counts as trig.What the actual heck, I started doing trig in 7th grade pre-algebra. If they are seriously not doing trig until pre-calc now, that's a serious disservice to students.
was the college prep what you’d call advanced math now? Because it’s the same except for the renaming of trig.Our "college prep" track for math started in 7th grade and went pre-algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Trig, then Calculus. I almost flunked Algebra 2 due to troubles at home. But I had a really good trig/calc teacher.
Her daughter was in our class, too. A bit awkward sometimes...
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