2008-08-05, 06:16 | Link #41 | |
Absolute Haruhist!
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Here in Singapore, most people only know 3.142 some 2.236 and nothing else lol. I've never been taught special ways to remember numbers or specifically told to remember any number besides pi. Since we rely much on calculators in higher or advanced maths.
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2008-08-05, 08:16 | Link #42 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The Border of Common Sense
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Yeah, I know about that, and yes, they teach Math intensively here. It's not just math, hungarians invented a lot of things, like Television, PC (Neumann János), the Nuclear Bomb and it's brother, the Hydrogen Bomb (Teller Ede), the hologram, the ball pen, etc, etc. It's called the Hungarian Miracle. Math is always torturing me, but now I made it in the exam. What is torturing me is one of my engineering subject. In Hungary in most high schools we have to learn a trade. My parents sent me to an engineering school, despite that I hate engineering, as I am a humanities person. School changing is not possible. Ok, enough about me. It's off topic, right? |
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2008-08-05, 11:24 | Link #43 | ||
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Yes, calculators are very helpful. From the viewpoint of pure necessity in daily life, such memorisation may be totally pointless. Rather students have fun to create the memorising phrases. After graduation, such knowledge become good seeds of humour. |
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2008-08-05, 12:54 | Link #44 | |
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American ones are really lame in comparison: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally Each of the starting letters represents a mathematical operation in sequence for the order of operations in basic arithmetic (Parentheses Exponents Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction).
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2008-08-05, 16:47 | Link #46 |
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It's a Native American tribe. See the movie "Windtalker". Their tongue is famous for having been used in a code during WW2.
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2008-08-06, 00:10 | Link #47 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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You'll still occasionally see it typed as the old spelling "Navaho" rather than "Nabajo" ... actually, I more often see it typed "Navajo". The "b" and "v" sounds are pretty close approximations.
They were one of the largest tribes of original peoples in what became the US.
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2008-08-06, 05:22 | Link #48 |
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I feel English pi poem admirably sophisticated.
"May I tell a story purposing to render clear the ratio circular perimeter-breadth, revealing one of the problems most famous in modern days, and the greatest man of science anciently known." Although there are many in Japanese too, they are not so beautiful like that. As Anh_Minh and Vexx explained, it is one of the languages of indigenous Americans. I meant it being an example of languages that do not belong to Indo-European family and are considered to be difficult for those with European backgrounds to master. I should have chosen Basque / Euskara as clearer sample. |
2008-08-06, 09:14 | Link #49 | |
Youkai of Coincidence
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: The Border of Common Sense
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However, Japanese is more easier to us, it's grammar is more like ours, we write our name in the same order, our languages are more... "soft" while Indo-European languages are very strict, and such. I can't speak japanese yet, but my brother mastered it in three months. And oh yes: There is no such language what a hungarian speaking man cannot pronounce. Maybe, except the bushman language. |
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2008-08-08, 01:38 | Link #50 | |
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To focus on study, some schools exempt their students from chores however most schools require it. |
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2008-08-08, 02:33 | Link #51 | |
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Khi can Nang May Ao Zap Sat Nhin sang Pho Hoi Cua Hang A Phi Au but in Alberta, Canada we can use the standard Mendeleev table in test and it already has those information, so no memorization is required. |
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2008-08-08, 03:57 | Link #52 | |
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I find that these techniques do help a lot initially, but in the long-run, application is the best method |
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Hit fire alarms- we do it just for fun Jackin announce room- they have broadcasting/announce club and they DJing music at lunch time. but thay always select classic music (I like classic music now) or read some bord stories which is nobody listen. so me and friends use to jack announce room, then brast off Nirvana, NOFX, RATM stuf loud. And....whatelse...oh ya, in class room, we usually able to sit wherever you want sit. but best place is back and window side, teachers can not see the conor. You can read manga, play games, send E mails, sleep, and growin imagination. The Haruhi`s seat! Those things by 公立中学 kou-ritsu public school. I don`t know about private school. and please not forget, if you bust for smoke, or drivin scooters without licence, you will get suspend or kick out. |
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2008-08-31, 13:40 | Link #55 |
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Join Date: May 2008
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As far as my semesters went:
April start, finish late July. (Summer holidays = middle of academic year) Mid sep start, tiny christmas break then 2 weeks of exams in january. Then loooooooooooooooooong ass spring break from late jan-april. Then, it begins again. Graduation ceremonies tend to happen in late march/early april too to catch the sakura blossoms (well my old uni did) It' usually occurs before new school year begins.
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2008-12-08, 18:16 | Link #57 | |
Absolute Haruhist!
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High schools do have auditoriums though.
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2008-12-08, 22:56 | Link #59 | |
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Location: Singapore now, QLD next.
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1 Size of the school's land 2 How rich the school is 3 School population If it has small land, it's impossible for the school to have both an auditorium AND a gymnasium. In fact, the proper name for it is "sports hall". If the school has not enough funds, the school wouldn't build an auditorium, right? And if school population is too small, it's not worth the time doing so. Then again, my middle and high schools were sharing facilities with an university (which I later moved on to), so we never had this problem. |
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