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The only good thing Limp, RATM, Korn, etc. were good fro was making angry punks angrier. Fred Durst was a talentless punk who did nothing more than make an agitated crowd aggressive. That's all he will be known for because he has no talent.

Remembering the disastrous concert from 99 featuring crappy bands such as Limp Bizkit, Korn, Creed, And Rage Against the Machine. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/19-worst-things-about-woodstock-99-20140731?page=2 Late 90s culture at its best. America! I'm sure someone will try to profit from Woodstock 2019.

Wynne better do what's right for Ontario teachers. Many votes there.

Celtic Frost - Cold Lake

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/old-school-or-new-math-teachers-debate-best-methods-as-canadian-scores-fall/article25224581/ Math is in the Globe again.

Yes, but what I'm seeing is that those kids who have mastered the basics in math are able to progress to more difficult concepts/problems than those that don't. I've been told that is not necessary to teach long division anymore. I went along with this nonsense. It's time consuming, but I realized how important it is to be able to perform long division. I read a study that said a student's knowledge of fractions and decimals predicts long-term math success. Here is a link. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/knowledge-of-fractions-and-long-division-predicts-long-term-math-success.html And Ash, yes, I was wrong. Happy now?

I'm starting to see the damage caused by Inquiry Based learning.

Gosthacked: Stay on topic. Don't worry about me. I asked a question to initiate debate. If that question is beyond you, then please refrain from composing a nonsense post.

Supposed declining math skills is in the news again. Now are math skills actually declining, or do people not realize that the 21st century is different than the 20th century, and therefore, education is different too. Here is a recent article from the NP. http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/philip-sullivan-discovery-learning-is-failing-our-children

Who cares? So many problems in the world and you concern yourself with a silly TV show.

There was a forum held in Alberta recently that dealt with declining math scores in Canada. This is quite lengthy. There were 4 main speakers. I found it interesting. Alberta used to be tops in Canada in math but has seen a rapid decline. Many are asking why? I found the 4th presenter made some interesting points. But it left me wondering what a university math professor knows about teaching little kids when we have many different levels in one classroom.

You sure know your stuff. I'm learning a lot reading your posts. I used to think waldo was the expert on this topic, but you are making waldo seem like an ideologue. I guess my new question is why has climate change been so mainstream and treated as a fact if in fact, as you say, it is not? Tim alluded to a possibility that this is a left wing political agenda, pushed by non-scientists like waldo, but I don't understand that. Is this more about politics than about science? What is the end game?

So on a scale of 1-10, what impact do you feel humans are having on global warming? 10 being high. Why are a majority of scientists and experts like waldo so concerned then? They can't all be wrong. Deniers are ridiculed for good reason. If human habits don't change, what do you fell the earth will be like by 2030?

0.5 is too much. That is a dangerous increase as I'm sure you agree. y doomed I mean coastal cities being flooded and destroyed. It seems to me that humans are driving global warming and it may be too late to change things. We need to eliminate ALL use of fossil fuels. I think you understand the dire situation the globe is in. What do we need to do? We need to get back to walking more and riding bikes and planting more trees. But corporate greed is destroying green spaces which is also causing global warming. Things will be very scary by 2020.

I remember watching an Inconvenient Truth and becoming very frightened. When all the Arctic ice melts and a good chunk of Antarctic ice melts, then we are doomed. There is no debate around that. Rising sea levels will destroy Earth. So basically you are saying that the Dust Bowl conditions of the 1930s were not caused by human actions? Then what caused that long drought? How much higher is the average temperature due to human habits?

You definitely know your material. So you believe humans are driving climate change, which is what I suspected. do you feel humans are causing all the strange weather the globe is experiencing?

A 2 km massive sheet of ice would take a long time to melt. Does the sun play any role in global warming?