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What Our Kid Learned at School Today

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kruser

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Saw down below that soemone's kid jusr went to school after Labor Day. Our's (8th grade) has been there bout 3 weeks and reading books. Indy 500 The Inside Track.
Can't text fast enough for her so here it goes!

-At 220 m.p.h the front tires on an indy car rotate about 43 times per second.
-Indy style cars accelerate from 0 to 100 in about 3 seconds.
-The front tire of an indy car weighs about 18 pounds.
-Some racers and fans believe that eating peanuts at the track is bad luck.
-After a win it is a tradition to drink milk.

molly kruser
 
Interesting, but is this what they need to survive and excell on future life?

(retired but still active teacher)
 
Sounds like a good bit of math involved there. A study of the oldest track in race car history, and the fact that milk is indeed the beverage served to the winner. This is because Indiana is and has been a strong dairy farm area. If she studies the cars closer, she will learn a lot more about science, and electronics. Each wheel is monitored by the pit crew via radio transmitters, as well as many of the components on the car. Many of these are used in our military aircraft, or tested here first, and then implemented. The track was shut down during WW II, and re-opened by Wilbur Shaw, a friend of my Dad's, and brought back to life. It was not only something to do with fast cars, but it provided a major source of income for the Central Indian area during the month of May. It has far reaching effects including many countries in the European Nations. I am not a teacher, nor am I a resident of Indiana... I was born there, spent quite a bit of time around the track, and now live in Texas... I do custom parts for a couple of teams who race now.
 
Race drivers used to believe that a green race car was bad luck,until some English dude proved that to be wrong. Now, who was the driver?
 
(quoted from post at 03:48:52 09/09/10) Race drivers used to believe that a green race car was bad luck,until some English dude proved that to be wrong. Now, who was the driver?
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Jimmy Clark
 
(quoted from post at 02:59:50 09/09/10) Interesting, but is this what they need to survive and excell on future life?

(retired but still active teacher)
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Maybe. It's a start. I think you'd be surprised at the level of education the people working in top tier racing series have reached. A degree in aerospace engineering is the degree of choice in many race shops.
 
Sure it is, if a child can read and comprehend what they read they can do anything they want. The vast majority of history's greastest scholars were self taught.
 
(quoted from post at 19:59:50 09/08/10) Interesting, but is this what they need to survive and excell on future life?

(retired but still active teacher)
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I would say it is the beginning of a good physics lesson.

Dave
 
I liked it better when school started after Labor Day and ended with Memorial Day. What happened?
 
Molly,
Perhaps you should send a little country math back to the classroom. Take the pto rpm's, gear box ratio of a brush hog or finish mower and then calculate the tip speed of the mower blade. I think tip speed 6 ft rear mount woods mower is going around 200 mph. Dixie choppers go around 200 mph too.
George
 
When My daughter started school 12 years ago in Jr kindergarden,after a month went, by she came home and at the dinner table told us that her mom had a va gina and dad had a pen is.Remember that she was only 4 yaesr old when she explained this to us.At the time the school board had women called feeling ladies go around and explain this to the kids.Well I just sat there for minute and looked at my wife.My wife tells her that she needs to call her granny and tell her all about what she had learned in school that day.Now she is grade 11 and has a 95% average and excelles in all she does.Maybe if someone explained this to me in kindergarden I might not spell check today.
 
"It is said eating peanuts at the track is bad luck" be as vague as possible without identifying any particular group. The usual verbiage used by TV presenters when visiting houses that are purported to be haunted. Get the drift, a load of bunkum or codswallop.whatever.
 
Nephew lives in NYC and has a job teaching $ex to elementary schoolers at several schools. Guess he should have learned his own lesson because his own girlfriend got pregnant. Not to worry they had a comitment cerimony (instead of marriage) so everything is OK. I'm too old to understand the new ways.
 
jim, sounds like she is learning practical applications for math and science. last year my daughter had geometry in high school. had a rough time in the class and didnt see any practical applications. got the tape measure out, laser level and some marker flags, showed her how to square up a building, figure volume of concrete for a bin floor, angles for roof pitch ect. then it made sense with a practical application.
 
According to popular legend, peanuts shells were found in the seat of a badly crashed race car in the 1940's, leading to the superstition that eating peanuts (@ Indy) brings bad luck. It did for at least ONE person.
 
Yeah, not enough schools teaching physics anymore. In fact, physics is basically logic. Logic is the backbone of anything math & computer related. Physics and logic are the basis for all common sense principles.

It all boils down to schools not stressing enough common sense anymore. They definitely don't teach anyone how to make change for a dollar.

Back in the day, I was taught the 3 R's. Readin, Ritin, and Rithmetic. Too bad they didn't taach spellin. I had to learn spellin on my own. In the 7th grade they came out with what they called "New Math". It was quite an adjustment for everyone but mainly the teachers. Then when my daughter was in grade school around 10 to 15 years ago, they came out with something called (you guessed it) "New Math". I kinda scratched my head over that deal. I don't think they stress Geometry and Trigonometry enough anymore.
 
Only eating peanuts in the infield is bad luck as a young guy who ate them at all times was killed there by a race car.
Walt
 
I can remember coming home from school and going out to find out what Dad was doing. Sometimes he'd say, "What'd you learn in school today?" and I'd answer, "Mmm- nothin". To which he'd reply, "Well then, I suppose you'll just have to go back again tomorrow!"
 
"This is because Indiana is and has been a strong dairy farm area."

I don't think we're a real strong dairy producing state. We do have some, one big one up NW, but overall, not a big part of our agriculture.

And I don't think that's why they drink milk at the 500. Louis Meyer, the 1936 winner, started that tradition. He just plain liked buttermilk, and that's what he asked for. Others followed suit.

Found this: Today, six states -- California, Wisconsin, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Idaho -- produce nearly 60 percent of the nation's milk
 
(quoted from post at 03:59:50 09/09/10) Interesting, but is this what they need to survive and excell on future life?

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I'm currently a teacher and believe this was a fine example of trying to make connections with real life experiences and interests.
 
Yep - That's our Molly!
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indianared,
An interesting note is that Emerson Fittipaldi refused to drink milk and insisted on orange juice instead. This happened in the 1993 Indy 500.
 
Indianared, when the milk issue started, "We" were a major dairy State. With folks wanting to have houses instead of farms in Indiana, a lot of the dairy and farming business has fallen off. I was raised on a dairy farm just S. of Shelbyville, my Grandmothers. Our was next to the Compton's who owned one of the dairies in Shelbyville. We finally sold everything off after I left Indiana, and my uncle passed away. There wasn't much left to fool with, because folks were moving out of town, and living in the "country". As for Fittapaldi, he made many mad because the drink of milk has been a long time tradition. The dairy farmers have been sponsors in one way or another for many years. Way in the back of Granny's farm, was her whiskey making stuff. She contributed a lot too, but not in the form of advertising, but donations from her profits... Little brother still goes to the track, and hangs out during May, but not as much since he's not doing any custom or specialty work. I practically lived there in May when I could. At any rate, to keep this in line with the original posting concerning school, math, and learning, 6 bottles of milk in a wire carrier constitute a half dozen bottles. If these are quart bottles, that equals 1.5 gallons, or 192 ounces...
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