Saturday, September 24, 2011

Grumpy Educators: Explaining the New Math

Grumpy Educators: Explaining the New Math:

Explaining the New Math


Years ago when I got out of the service unemployment was high, and no one really wanted Vets, the general assumption was we were all crazy– a slight exaggeration. The construction industry was a little different, cray was normal and it paid well, provided you were willing to get paid for what you produced, instead of the time you put in… The only problem was you were on your own for things like insurance, and the winters were rough on cash flow. That was when I started learning there was more money in selling the materials, then there was in nailing it together..

A couple years later I was managing a lumber yard. One evening I wrote a guy