If I teach logic, then I will get. it.
That's an if/ then statement.
In math its called a conditional.
I know that 'cause I teach logic. Then there is the truth value thing.
If the first part is true then you look at the second part and if that is also true then you reverse it, and then you do the hokey pokey and your turn yourself around. And that's what its all about.
If you're too young to remember the hokey pokey and then we'll go with the Missy Elliot quote- if its worth it than work it - put your thing down flip and reverse it.
The point? The truth value is false.
Obviously.
I teach it- but I don't get it.
Here's another conditional
If you love to teach then you teach.
Let's look what the converse of this one is.
If you teach then you love to teach.
Anyone who has been around schools and- kids, and - teachers, for more than a little while- has to question the truth value of that one. I had a friend who has a job working with teachers who are in jeopardy of losing their jobs due to terrible reviews. Sometimes she finds , the reviews are due to something other than actual teaching skills , sometimes she's successfully makes them better teachers and sometimes she finds that people who actually teach hate to teach.
And now for the negation.
Those who don't love to teach, don't teach.
They find ways to make those who do -miserable.
By making educational policy-
By deciding people who can't determine the difference between odd and even numbers should take college preparatory math courses.
By thinking that if you make everything harder, then everyone will learn harder things.
Then developing tests to determine that students can't do the stuff that you decided to put on the hard test , but you didn't tell anyone in advance how hard it would be since you didn't know exactly what was going to be on it.
In fact you were so confused about what hard stuff to put on the exam that you used passages from the textbooks you were also selling the people to prepare for the hard exam.
(That will show people who love to teach- not to buy anything but your textbooks.)
And of course if it all goes awry - you just blame the teachers.
Is anything I wrote logical?
Does it make sense?
Who knows? I already admitted I don't get it.
That's an if/ then statement.
In math its called a conditional.
I know that 'cause I teach logic. Then there is the truth value thing.
If the first part is true then you look at the second part and if that is also true then you reverse it, and then you do the hokey pokey and your turn yourself around. And that's what its all about.
If you're too young to remember the hokey pokey and then we'll go with the Missy Elliot quote- if its worth it than work it - put your thing down flip and reverse it.
The point? The truth value is false.
Obviously.
I teach it- but I don't get it.
Here's another conditional
If you love to teach then you teach.
Let's look what the converse of this one is.
If you teach then you love to teach.
Anyone who has been around schools and- kids, and - teachers, for more than a little while- has to question the truth value of that one. I had a friend who has a job working with teachers who are in jeopardy of losing their jobs due to terrible reviews. Sometimes she finds , the reviews are due to something other than actual teaching skills , sometimes she's successfully makes them better teachers and sometimes she finds that people who actually teach hate to teach.
And now for the negation.
Those who don't love to teach, don't teach.
They find ways to make those who do -miserable.
By making educational policy-
By deciding people who can't determine the difference between odd and even numbers should take college preparatory math courses.
By thinking that if you make everything harder, then everyone will learn harder things.
Then developing tests to determine that students can't do the stuff that you decided to put on the hard test , but you didn't tell anyone in advance how hard it would be since you didn't know exactly what was going to be on it.
In fact you were so confused about what hard stuff to put on the exam that you used passages from the textbooks you were also selling the people to prepare for the hard exam.
(That will show people who love to teach- not to buy anything but your textbooks.)
And of course if it all goes awry - you just blame the teachers.
Is anything I wrote logical?
Does it make sense?
Who knows? I already admitted I don't get it.
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