Category Archives: Education

Brooklyn Tony ON MATH 101

September 26, 2011 – 10:57 am

Teacher asks her class: “If there are 5 birds sitting on a fence and you shoot one of them, how many will be left?” She calls on Brooklyn Tony. He replies, “None, they will all fly away with the first gunshot.” The teacher replies, “The correct answer is 4, but I like your thinking.” Then [...]

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Simple Math

September 26, 2011 – 10:53 am

Simple Math is a strictly mathematical viewpoint. What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% [...]

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1 + 1 = 2 Circa 1972

September 26, 2011 – 10:47 am

The simple addition of 1 + 1 is the first math learned by children. Addition is followed by subtraction, division, and multiplication. The nuns at Our Lady of the Foothills believed in the power of rote education and each student was expected to memorize the math tables from 1 to 12. Fingers and toes aided [...]

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Impure At Heart

July 15, 2011 – 7:01 pm

In the early 60s the nuns of Our Lady of the Foothills taught that sins were punished not in this life, but for eternity in the burning fires of Hell. The Mother Superior submitted the palms of potential heretics and religious backsliders. Whisperers and jesters were merely subjected to the yardstick. All of her victims [...]

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The Location of X

July 2, 2011 – 12:29 am

My first major in college was Math. MY mother chose that field of study, because my 710 score in the Math SATs provided convincing proof that her second son was a future Einstein. She was not privy to the fact that I was smoking pot and dropping acid. Both opened my mind to the realm [...]

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