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1. about 4 hours ago on The Knight Life

   After all, the guy with the tear in his eye looks more like a right-hander than a right-winger. Speaking as a right-hander.

2. about 4 hours ago on The Knight Life

   Well… well it should have been! :-D

3. about 4 hours ago on Peanuts Begins

   Speaking as an “old boomer” who pre-dated New Math by a few years, It wasn’t about calculating in your head or making in more “real” to students. I looked it up:

   These curricula were quite diverse, yet shared the idea that children’s learning of arithmetic algorithms would last past the exam only if memorization and practice were paired with teaching for comprehension. More specifically, elementary school arithmetic beyond single digits makes sense only on the basis of understanding place value. This goal was the reason for teaching arithmetic in bases other than ten in the New Math, despite critics’ derision: In that unfamiliar context, students couldn’t just mindlessly follow an algorithm, but had to think why the place value of the “hundreds” digit in base seven is 49. Keeping track of non-decimal notation also explains the need to distinguish numbers (values) from the numerals that represent them.

4. about 4 hours ago on Pearls Before Swine

   At least Biden has the honesty not to try to cover up that he’s white.

5. about 4 hours ago on The Knight Life

   Well I am right handed and am in fact reluctant to change that. But re-reading the comic makes me want to say, “hmmm”. Or maybe, “hmmm?”

6. about 13 hours ago on The Knight Life

   The cartoon is about “right-handers” vs. “left-handers”, or were you talking about right-handers too.

7. about 13 hours ago on The Knight Life

   The cartoon is about “right-handers” vs. “left-handers”.

8. about 13 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   But on a happier note… no, I’ve got nothing.

9. about 13 hours ago on La Cucaracha

   The new “system” won’t be in place for a few days yet. Then we will start paying.

10. about 13 hours ago on La Cucaracha

    As I recall, even Trump didn’t manage to lose that many. The troll just pulled that number out of… thin air, I would never suggest anywhere else.