Comments on: You are smarter than you think. http://web-professor.net/wp/2007/01/11/you-are-smarter-than-you-think/ About programming for the web and online marketing. Helping others by creating tools for webmasters, search marketers, and seo's. Teaching others to program through php tutorials, c# tutorials, and other web programming tutorials and scripts. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:51:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hawaii SEO http://web-professor.net/wp/2007/01/11/you-are-smarter-than-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-10081 Hawaii SEO Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:33:58 +0000 http://web-professor.net/wp/2007/01/11/you-are-smarter-than-you-think/#comment-10081 Yikes! *Shudders* That's scary. Yikes! *Shudders* That’s scary.

]]> By: Scott http://web-professor.net/wp/2007/01/11/you-are-smarter-than-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-10080 Scott Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:04:41 +0000 http://web-professor.net/wp/2007/01/11/you-are-smarter-than-you-think/#comment-10080 I am going off of memory but I believe they have around 60 to 90 seconds. Even if I had counted by six's and kept track by hand I could have solved that problem in time. It was shocking, my guess is that it was because it was word problem. I have noticed how hard those are for some people. Many people can't make the connection between how math can be used to solve real world problems. I am going off of memory but I believe they have around 60 to 90 seconds. Even if I had counted by six’s and kept track by hand I could have solved that problem in time. It was shocking, my guess is that it was because it was word problem. I have noticed how hard those are for some people. Many people can’t make the connection between how math can be used to solve real world problems.

]]> By: Hawaii SEO http://web-professor.net/wp/2007/01/11/you-are-smarter-than-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-10076 Hawaii SEO Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:50:04 +0000 http://web-professor.net/wp/2007/01/11/you-are-smarter-than-you-think/#comment-10076 I have a hard time with questions like that because I'm semi-dyslexic. Multiplication is no problem, but for some reason, simple devision causes my brain to crash. If you gave me a few seconds, I can multiply 15 a few times in my head and figure it out but I can't think about it backwards for some reason. What's 15 times 6? (90 - That was easy) Wast's 90 devided by 15? (Duh... Let me think...) On the other hand, Geometry was the easiest class I ever took. I couldn't understand why many of the kids who were doing so great in Algebra were having a hard time with the geometry story problems. Suddenly I was the smartest kid in the class. But yeah... I'm shocked that 50% didn't get it. How much time did they have? I have a hard time with questions like that because I’m semi-dyslexic. Multiplication is no problem, but for some reason, simple devision causes my brain to crash. If you gave me a few seconds, I can multiply 15 a few times in my head and figure it out but I can’t think about it backwards for some reason.

What’s 15 times 6? (90 – That was easy)
Wast’s 90 devided by 15? (Duh… Let me think…)

On the other hand, Geometry was the easiest class I ever took. I couldn’t understand why many of the kids who were doing so great in Algebra were having a hard time with the geometry story problems. Suddenly I was the smartest kid in the class.

But yeah… I’m shocked that 50% didn’t get it. How much time did they have?

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