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He uses a ton of riffs up and down the scale, which enforces that minor tonality in our brains. Minor always sounds minor, but sometimes it sounds more minor, and this is one way to do that!

The full explanation involves "modes" which are a little more complicated, but they influence the brightness or darkness of a given passage of music.

This is the best video I've seen to hear the difference in modes for yourself.

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=k9PCXcu

> I can't stand common core. I understand the theory behind it, but I would rather retake calc 3. It seem like such an bizarre and inefficient way to learn mathematics to someone who learned the more traditional way.

I think a large part of that, though, is that people like what we're used to. The way we learned (especially if reemphasized over years through school) seems the "natural" way and other ways more foreign. "Open area" multiplication sounds strange and difficult to me, but my cousin's kid (and my cousin, who is a teacher) said most of the kids very much preferred it over the way we learned when exposed to various methods. Most of us just like what's familiar to us, I think.

Often what helps with remembering is an association of a story or memory with the thing you are trying to remember. Understanding the cnbtext of the mathy this or that helps you learbln rather than memorize. Unfortunately for a lot of low level maths, there is a lot of memorization involved because the greater significance of things comes later. Here is what I googled for a short history of sin. http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=Vwmpmoy

found this

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=D9x8l2u

Wasn't the teacher I was talking about but apparently you can search by topic on this site and this came up and he seems to know what hes talking about. Asymptotes are pretty easy once you know what to look for, its basically simplifying an expression then looking at what makes zero

OK so I saw this pic and went WTF.

I've always read 5 x 3 as 5 three times or 5 + 5 + 5.

It felt like an icepick stabbed my brain when I saw the teachers answer.

Found this video Repeated Addition Strategy For Solving Multiplication Equations

I think the outrage is the definition of Repeated Addition Strategy.

The strategy forces the student to follow a formula/rule to find the answer.

According to the Repeated Addition Strategy you always add the lowest number or the second number multiple times.

Basically the kid was using the "Efficient Repeated Addition Strategy" of adding the easiest/biggest number multiple times.

This strategy isn't any improvement over repetition. Its repetition of addition instead of multiplication.

Its real name should be the "Inefficient Counterintuitive Repeated Addition Strategy".

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I'm also about to start student teaching and I had a parent tell me that this really helped their child with math. Also it was good for the parents to be able to watch the videos to help with homework.

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