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RE: Common operational misconceptions
From: George Bonser <gbonser () seven com>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:36:28 +0000
BTW, I am a school board member who votes 1:8 often on things.... But let me give you a perspective, one of the board members called Golf an "Essential Life Skill." Maybe, but how about balancing a checkbook... Ralph Brandt Communications Engineer HP Enterprise Services
One of the best courses I ever had was in 9th grade math class when Mr. Martin taught us how to do taxes. And I mean even long forms with all the schedules and stuff for people who had investments and small sole proprietor businesses. It was a great practical math application, though it was mostly just arithmetic, some of the example cases were quite complex with estimated taxes, carrying forward losses from previous years, depreciation, etc. It gave us some context in which we could understand why we might need to learn math in real life and made taxes less daunting when we got older. Thanks, Mr. Martin!
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- Re: Common operational misconceptions, (continued)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions -Hammer- (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Charles Mills (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions John Kristoff (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jack Bates (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jack Bates (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Leo Bicknell (Feb 17)
- RE: Common operational misconceptions Brandt, Ralph (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions -Hammer- (Feb 17)
- RE: Common operational misconceptions Brandt, Ralph (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions -Hammer- (Feb 17)
- RE: Common operational misconceptions George Bonser (Feb 17)
- RE: Common operational misconceptions Mario Eirea (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Steve Clark (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jack Bates (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Mike Lyon (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Mike Andrews (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jay Ashworth (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Scott Helms (Feb 17)
- RE: Common operational misconceptions Brandt, Ralph (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions John Osmon (Feb 17)
- Re: Common operational misconceptions Jerry Jones (Feb 17)