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Don't fix the problem just change the parameters (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

Still can't understand how any kid cannot do it. Isn't that something you learn from your parents before you even go to school

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I remember learning in second grade.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    The older you are the more you actually learned in school.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Don't undersell all of the life lessons you learned from being the age you are.

    Part of the reason why kids seem so dumb is because they don't have that life experience yet. They're still figuring it out. I'm sure that when I was a kid people looked at me and thought I was pretty dumb, just like many adults do to the kids now. blave has the right attitude about it; teach them. Someone has to. If everyone shrugs it off that someone will do it, then nobody does it.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I think I learned how to read a clock in preschool, not from my parents

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    "little hand", "big hand" kind of stuff.... yeah, I vaguely recall going over that when I was in JK/SK, possibly in the first few grade levels. IDK, I'm old now, so I don't remember a lot of what happened when I was around 6.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I've had, and honestly still do have issue with reading it rather than understanding. At least the way I was taught, it just sounds really weird, like 15:40 being "5 minutes till quarter to 4 in the afternoon".
    I don't need to think about "fifteen forty".

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    thinking is hard

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    But why add unnecessary complexity?
    Like analog clocks are fine, they show time progress in a way digital don't.

    But why read it in that more convoluted way? Like, I can tell you that you have 10100bin seconds to answer some question, and you can tell that's 20 seconds, but why the fuck do it that way. The only time it's "five minutes till quarter to four in the afternoon" rather than 15:40 is when writing an assay, perhaps.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    But why read it in that more convoluted way?

    Perhaps just the thing where you are from? I never heard anyone referring to "five minutes before quarter to", it is idiotic. You would say "twenty to four".

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Probably not -- time isn't that relevant before society puts you on the path towards hourly labor. I learned in elementary, but then I also grew up with digital clocks like most folks under 50.

    Edit: apparently we have either a lot of on-the-clock preschoolers or folks who don't know when digital clock radios were invented. Perhaps both. If you cared about the clock time before you were 5 I feel sorry for you.

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